Attachment Quotes

516 quotes by 291 authors

Generalists, people with moderately strong attachments to many ideas, should be hard to interrupt, and once interrupted, should have weaker, shorter negative reactions since they… — Karl E. Weick
You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you… — Bede Griffiths
A lot of people, quite frankly, think intense attachments to animals are weird and suspect, the domain of people who can't quite handle attachments to… — Caroline Knapp
Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new… — Caroline Knapp
You can take the boy out of England, but you can't take England out of the boy. And ummm, yes, I feel a huge emotional… — John Mahoney
Cut like crazy. Less is more. I've often read manuscripts - including my own - where I've got to the beginning of, say, chapter two… — Sarah Waters
This attachment of Love to God is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages. — Swami Vivekananda
Melting our attachment to self is the most powerful medication for bringing mental and emotional imbalances in check. — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a… — Bharati Mukherjee
Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything. — Bodhidharma
Overcoming attachment does not mean becoming cold and indifferent. On the contrary, it means learning to have relaxed control over our mind through understanding the… — Kathleen McDonald
The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances. — Bodhidharma
How happy I will be if I keep my heart free from attachment to anyone, and chained to Jesus, my God, alone... I will devote… — Peter Julian Eymard
The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions. — Lester Levenson
When the only bond between close friends is attachment, then even a minor issue may cause one's projections to change. As soon as our projections… — Dalai Lama
Freedom is to be free of attachments, and the main attachment is to the 'I'-self. — Mooji
No one can liberate you, for no one has bound you; you hold on to the nettle of worldly pleasures and you weep for pain.… — Sathya Sai Baba
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward... — Ramakrishna
Emotional attachment to Maya is totally painful, this is a bad bargain. — Guru Nanak
What is... disturbing to me is that many of these pro-Israeli lawmakers sit on the House International Relations Committee despite the obvious conflict of interest… — Cynthia McKinney

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