Attachment Quotes

Is not virtue a negation of becoming?

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

You must choose between your attachments and happiness.

— Adyashanti

“Resistance is the subtlest form of attachment.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Attachment comes only where we expect a return.

— Swami Vivekananda

I have an emotional attachment with the people of Rampur.

— Jaya Prada

Ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin.

— Marlene Dietrich

“Dare to live by letting go.”

— Tom Althouse

It is your attachment that creates hell.

— Rajneesh

A man could be in a throne and have no attachment at all; another one could be in rags and have many…

— Swami Vivekananda

“Forgiveness happens every time we surrender our attachment to pain.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.

— Bodhidharma

You can change your attachment from this to that, but you will be in misery. Attachment creates misery.

— Rajneesh

It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis

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

— Dada Bhagwan

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

— Rajneesh

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

— Ma Jaya

Real love is not based on attachment, but on altruism. In this case, your compassion will remain as a humane response to…

— Dalai Lama

How wonderful, how miraculous, all beings, but all beings, are fully endowed with the wisdom and power of the Tathagat. But, sadly,…

— Gautama Buddha

A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.

— Ambrose Bierce

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he…

— Flannery O'Connor

I think ghosts would be some energy that hasn't found a home yet. I don't think they have any personal attachment to…

— Jeordie White

“Attachment is a unifying principle that reaches from the biological depths of our being to its furthest spiritual reaches.”

— Jeremy Holmes

“Inner intent’s resolve of the ownership-state (of one’s mind, body, speech, etc.) through attachment- abhorrence (raag-dwesh) is called parigraha (owning things other…

— Dada Bhagwan

My son was five months old, and I built a makeshift studio in my living room so that I could do the…

— Alanis Morissette

The act of the soul, in surrendering itself into the hands of Christ, forms a connecting bond between Him as the Vine…

— Gardiner Spring

All Plutophiles are based in America. If you go to other countries, they have much less of an attachment to either the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

My encounter with another world and another culture and the beginnings of an attachment to them had set up an irritation, barely…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Who can depart from his pain and aloneness without regret? Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets,…

— Khalil Gibran

I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by…

— Gautama Buddha

“Non-attachment doesn’t mean you forgo possessions, pleasure, or comfort. It simply means you are at peace when those things fail to show…

— Darren Main

The barbarians, who possessed no books, no secular knowledge, no education, except in the schools of the clergy, and who had scarcely…

— Lord Acton

What I would like to write is a book about nothing, a book without exterior attachments, which would be held together by…

— Gustave Flaubert

It is only your self-identification with your mind that makes you happy or unhappy. Rebel against your slavery to your mind, see…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“A person's attachment status is a fundamental determinant of their relationships, and this is reflected in the way they feel about themselves…

— Jeremy Holmes

“Bhikkhus, what is meant by ‘pursuing the past’? To pursue the past means to lose yourself in thoughts about what you looked…

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“It was told to me, it was in a manner forced on me by the very person herself whose prior engagement ruined…

— Jane Austen

“What a lot of people use the internet for is really about meeting their attachment needs. So on Facebook, what do people…

— Gabor Maté

Prayer is not a way to get what we want to happen, like the remote control that comes with the television set.…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

“As parents move from defensive processes to increased empathy for their children, the children's attachment security increases. Thus, on one side we…

— Daniel J. Siegel, M.D

From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a box already built for us to fit inside. Our umbilical…

— Paige Bradley