Attachment Quotes

That non-attachment gives us the freedom to be exactly who we are.

Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.

The physician is happy in the attachment of the families in which he practices. All think he has saved one of them, and he finds himself everywhere a welcome guest, a home in every house.

The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment & every enmity.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments.

The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.

If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go the past that drags you down.

I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.

Did Romeo and Juliet have a ... "relationship"? The term "relationship" ... betokens a chaste egalitarianism leveling different ranks and degrees of attachment.

In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.

In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.

Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities.

Real love is not based on attachment, but on altruism. In this case, your compassion will remain as a humane response to suffering as long as beings continue to suffer.

I had an attachment disorder.

You don't give up the intention, and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the results.

I guess one of the things that is an advantage of the world in which we live is that I can at least I can have multiple homes. I can have that attachment to Montana and to Cambridge and to India.

The body will blossom and fade, but you will remain after this body of yours has gone away. This knowledge allows you to love the body without attachment. Thus, the body becomes absolutely pure.

As you learn to accept that the body is transitory, as you watch it with love, but without attachment, the body will develop purity.

Keep in mind that to avoid loneliness, many people need both a social circle and an intimate attachment. Having just one of two may still leave you feeling lonely.

I don't really get nervous for auditions, because I just see them as mini acting classes. There's no need to have an attachment to the outcome because it's out of your hands after that.

A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere.

There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort!

Happiness does not come from the things that we have but the abandoning of things that we cling to, by letting go of the attachments to things we don't want.

Love is not a sentimental attachment to a human being; love is a mode of conduct that comes from the heart.

If the mother can't break the attachment, they say that the baby can't leave this world. For him to be happy in a good place you must send the child that you must send... and you must live.

I didn't spend a whole lot of time here, but I had the seven best years of my career in this city and having an attachment here 20-some odd years later is pretty special to me.

He who does not mortify his palate will neither know how to mortify his flesh.

The more attached we are to a vision of the future, the less present we are to what is actually trying to emerge here and now.

Attachment is not love. Where there is attachment there is exploitation.

It is your attachment that creates hell.

My approach is neither of attachment nor of detachment, but of simple understanding.

Become detached from your ego, become detached from your possessions. Become simply detached from every possible source of attachment.

All duality is a mind creation, all duality is created by the clinging and attached mind. When there is no attachment there is no duality.

Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality.

Misery is nothing but the shadow of attachment. And hence all stagnancy. The attached person becomes a stagnant pool - sooner or later he will stink. He flows no more.

If we can give up attachment to our roles as helpers, then maybe our clients can give up attachment to their roles as patients

Samsaric pleasures are like salt water, the more we indulge, the more we crave.

When someone is drowning in the ocean of attachments, Surrender is the life jacket they can put on and wait for the rescue team

As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.

There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears.

We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.

Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured.

Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.

Live today. Let go of your attachment to your past as an excuse for your life conditions today. You are the product of the choices you are making right now.

True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other.

Some persons are so inclined to mortify themselves that at every opportunity they have, they do so. What a beautiful practice this is, and how profitable!

To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.

The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear.

I have for the first time found what I can truly love- I have found you. You are my sympathy-my better self-my good angel-I am bound to you with a strong attachment.