Attachment Quotes

516 quotes by 299 authors

A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere. — Jean de la Bruyere
Demons frighten us because we set ourselves up to be frightened. We are overly attached to our reputations and possessions. When we love and desire… — Teresa Giudice
The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life. It is understandable that I should… — Walt Disney
How are you to meet the swarm of foolish attachments, triflings, and undesirable inclinations which beset you? By turning sharply away, and thoroughly renouncing such… — Saint Francis de Sales
Our body is a vessel of corruption; it is meant for death and for the worms, nothing more! And yet we devote ourselves to satisfying… — John Vianney
There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort! — John Vianney
Without a doubt, one of the things which keeps us from attaining perfection is our tongue. When one has reached the point of no longer… — Saint Francis de Sales
Most people suffer in love because of attachment. Attachment means we're interested in a net return on our investment. — Frederick Lenz
As your love grows, you will find that your attachment to this world will begin to fall away. — Frederick Lenz
Selfless giving reminds us that there is an eternally present spirit in all of us, that when revealed, liberates us from both the transitory and… — Frederick Lenz
The body will blossom and fade, but you will remain after this body of yours has gone away. This knowledge allows you to love the… — Frederick Lenz
As you learn to accept that the body is transitory, as you watch it with love, but without attachment, the body will develop purity. — Frederick Lenz
Be Good, Do Good.Do thou always without attachment perform action which should be done, for by performing action without attachment, man reaches the Supreme. — Sivananda
Attachment to the Divine leads to detachment from the mind. This leads to the realization that the nature of the Seer and the Divine are… — A. G. Mohan
The whole basis of the music is that people have these emotional attachments to these songs - whether they love it or hate it. Being… — Girl Talk
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an… — Erich Fromm
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened… — Charles Dickens
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment. — George Eliot
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment. — Harriet Ann Jacobs

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