Attachment Quotes · Page 13

“Attachment to the external always suffocates inner peace.”

— Bryant McGill

People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.

— Lionel Shriver

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

— Ma Jaya

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

— Steven Knight

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

— Tom Althouse

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

“Most people suffer in love because of attachment. We are interested in getting a net return on our investment. –Unplugging the Patriarchy”

— Lucia René

The world is your oyster. Yes, but in that oyster is the pearl; and to get to the pearl one has to…

— Ian Gardner

“When one knows this world as ‘wrong’, there is abhorrence (dwesh) and when he knows it as ‘right’, there is attachment (raag).…

— Dada Bhagwan

“Love-that which biologists, nervous about being misunderstood call "attachment"-fuels the bond between dog and master or mistress.”

— John Bradshaw

You can find God if you will only seek - by obeying divine laws, by loving people, by relinquishing self-will, attachments, negative…

— Peace Pilgrim

As soon as we identify ourselves with the work we do, we feel miserable; but if we do not identify ourselves with…

— Swami Vivekananda

From a spiritual perspective, freedom from attachment to a particular outcome is the ultimate expression of liberation. We can choose the actions…

— David Simon

You have to have some level of attachment, you can still have passion and believe but it has to be softened somewhat.

— David Cross

I think trauma gets a reductive treatment. We tend to think only violence or molestation or total abandonment qualify as "childhood trauma,"…

— Melissa Febos

With everything we do in life we identify ourselves. Here is a man who says harsh words to me. I feel anger…

— Swami Vivekananda

In countries where there is no marriage, there is no duty between husband and wife; when marriage comes, husband and wife live…

— Swami Vivekananda

“The marriage and all other worldly occasions have to be dealt with. You do it and so do ‘I’. You deal with…

— Dada Bhagwan

They are the kinds of things that make us a community: attachment to place, attachment to local arts traditions, the ability to…

— Robert Hass

When I started doing pro wrestling, it wasn't the physical aspect doing the moves or taking the moves that was hard: it…

— Matt Riddle

“Renunciation and saiyam are two different things. Renunciation is where one gives up all marital ties, parental ties, financial ties and material possessions. What…

— Dada Bhagwan

Just seeing the fact that this is an attachment, that attachment is a bondage - a beautiful word for bondage - that…

— Rajneesh

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

— Rajneesh

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

— Bodhidharma

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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Lionel Shriver

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

— Neem Karoli Baba

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

— Pema Chodron

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

— Ilana Mercer

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

— Ralph Marston

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

— John Barrymore

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

— Anonymous

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

— Anonymous

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

— Lisa Bonet