Attachment Quotes · Page 9

“Lust, anger, attachment, greed, over pride be, Jealousy, selfishness, injustice, cruelty, ego truly; - 153 -”

— Munindra Misra

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

— Rajneesh

Conservatism, for me, is the philosophy and the politics of attachment.

— Roger Scruton

Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

— Beverly Sills

I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.

— Albert Camus

Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows.

— Swami Vivekananda

“Knowledge’ that removes attachment and abhorrence is a path beyond the world (alaukik).”

— Dada Bhagwan

Never get to attached to anyone because attachment leads to expectations and expectations leads to disappointments.

— Anonymous

Melting our attachment to self is the most powerful medication for bringing mental and emotional imbalances in check.

— Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall…

— Mahmoud Darwish

My brands are an extension of me. They're close to me. It's not like running GM, where there's no emotional attachment.

— Jay-Z

“for to have a deep attachment for a person (or a place or thing) is to have taken them as the terminating…

— John Bowlby

I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you…

— Charles Lamb

I like challenging parts, something I haven't done yet, something that scares me. There's just a feeling I get when I read…

— Tatiana Maslany

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to…

— William Bartram

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

— Theodore Bikel

The constitution ought to secure a genuine militia and guard against a select militia. ...All regulations tending to render this general militia…

— Richard Henry Lee

Surely binationalism is not love, but there is, we might say, a necessary and impossible attachment that makes a mockery of identity,…

— Judith Butler

When I was first introduced to Buddhism in a high school World Studies class, I dismissed it out of hand. This was…

— Tara Brach

If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward…

— Alphonsus Liguori

“Friendship is not a remedy for loneliness. Loneliness is part of our experience, and if we are looking for relief from loneliness…

— Rich Mullins

Try not to confuse attachment with love. Attachment is about fear and dependency, and has more to do with love of self…

— Anonymous

To remember non-attachment is to remember what freedom is all about. If we get attached, even to a beautiful state of being,…

— Sharon Salzberg

Instead of being a static one-time event, bonding is a process, a dynamic and continuous one. Thus, a reciprocal, loving attachment is…

— Julius Segal

“Our young don't play outside anymore; they've lost their innocence too early in their lives. We walk around the house ignoring one…

— Martin Suarez

Softly and kindly remind yourself, ''I cannot own anything.'' It is a valuable thought to keep in mind as you struggle to…

— Wayne Dyer

When your fight has purpose—to free you from something, to interfere on the behalf of an innocent—it has a hope of finality.…

— Tea Obreht

If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing…

— Jane Austen

And there is also the paradox that the dominating culture imbues the Indian past with great meaning and significance; it is valued…

— Linda Hogan

“Chemistry is not destiny, certainly. But these scientists have demonstrated that the most reliable way to produce an adult who is brave…

— Paul Tough

A cruel joke has been played on us. We are fated always to remember what we learned but never to recall the…

— Jo Coudert

First, the constitution ought to secure a genuine and guard against a select militia, by providing that the militia shall always be…

— Patrick Henry

“He was already intuiting that attachment - if only to a squirt gun - made him vulnerable.”

— Lionel Shriver

Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.

— Anonymous

Attachments stir the soul, ignite the emotions. Guard what moves you, reserving that for the truth.

— Suhaib Webb

Being attached is what prevents us from seeing, it is what clouds this miraculous awareness.

— Geoffrey Shugen Arnold

Transcendence means going beyond duality. Attachment means remaining within duality.

— Rajneesh

“Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached. ”

— Simone Weil

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

— Thomas Jefferson

A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils

— George Washington