Attachment Quotes
516 quotes by 291 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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This attachment of Love to God is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Melting our attachment to self is the most powerful medication for bringing mental and emotional imbalances in check.
— Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
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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
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Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.
— Bodhidharma
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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
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The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
— Bodhidharma
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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
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The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions.
— Lester Levenson
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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
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Freedom is to be free of attachments, and the main attachment is to the 'I'-self.
— Mooji
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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
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward...
— Ramakrishna
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Emotional attachment to Maya is totally painful, this is a bad bargain.
— Guru Nanak
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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
Who Wrote These Attachment Quotes
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