Attachment Quotes · Page 12

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

— Deepak Chopra

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

— Swami Vivekananda

The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.

— Saib Tabrizi

Attachment is the root cause of all misery. Possessiveness is nourishment for the ego.

— Rajneesh

“Distance is but a myth, a sign of love's absence - Be drunk in love, and lo, all distance disappears.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Sometimes we find that we like our thoughts so much that we don't want to let them go.

— Pema Chodron

When I experience Love I must go to God. When I experience non-attachment God must come to me.

— Meister Eckhart

Liberals retain a totemic attachment to the Freudian idea that traumatic toilet training is destiny.

— Ilana Mercer

If the mother can't break the attachment, they say that the baby can't leave this world. For him to be happy in…

— Park Gye-Ok

A thought is harmless unless we believe it. Its not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering.

— Anonymous

Many, however, gives themselves to God, but preserve still in their hearts some attachment to creatures, which prevents them from belonging entirely…

— Alphonsus Liguori

Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to…

— Thomas Malthus

Dying to your own attachments is a beautiful death. Because this death releases you into real life. You have to die as…

— Mooji

They say attachment is pain, but in reality its what you work for and how much you gain, I see thangs aint…

— Ruthless Bastad

“Been Contented goes beyond our material wants; contentment sets us free from the illusion of having more or “Better things”, or expecting…

— Quetzal

“Everything in the world is vitrag (free from attachment), but one ‘himself’ has become attached through attachment-abhorrence (raag-dwesh), and then he says,…

— Dada Bhagwan

...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or…

— Lionel Shriver

I must consider more closely this cycle of good and bad days which I find coursing within myself. Passion, attachment, the urge…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Attachment is the act of trying to control, manipulate, or sculpt the outside world in such a way that we lose sight…

— Darren Main

Non-attachment is not the elimination of desire. It is the spaciousness to allow any quality of mind, any thought or feeling, to…

— Stephen Levine

While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My…

— Bill Murray

Cut like crazy. Less is more. I've often read manuscripts - including my own - where I've got to the beginning of,…

— Sarah Waters

I very much love a physical book myself. I think people who have had this experience of also seeing a book come…

— Edwidge Danticat

“Why are...poor people more ready to share their goods than rich people? The answer is easy: The poor have little to lose;…

— Piero Gheddo

I'm someone who had a deep emotional attachment to 'Starsky and Hutch.'

— William J. Clinton

This world is all attachment. Yet you get worried because you are attached.

— Neem Karoli Baba

Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.

— Lionel Shriver

Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.

— Anonymous

Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment.

— Swami Vivekananda

I'm learning more and more that love plus attachment equals pain.

— Lisa Bonet

Love; Noun; An intense feeling of deep affection Verb; A feeling of deep romantic attachment.

— Anonymous

“If you learn to like, what you dislike, you will find the solution.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open.

— Ralph Marston

When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.

— Anonymous

If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.

— John Barrymore

“My goal is not to upset the apple cart, but to make it more accessible.”

— Tom Althouse

No screenplay is possible, unless you get some attachment from somebody who's going to get it made.

— Steven Knight

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

— Ma Jaya

Attachment is the shadow of the ego. Attachments are immediately created wherever you see 'I am'.

— Rajneesh

“When abhinivesh [firm attachment to one’s own view] leaves, one becomes a Parmatma.”

— Dada Bhagwan