Attachment Quotes

516 quotes by 300 authors

Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms. — Gautama Buddha
They say you don't get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don't deal well with emptiness. Any empty space… — Yasmin Mogahed
First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that will surround you… — Gautama Buddha
Attachment is the strongest block to realization. — Neem Karoli Baba
We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility. — Angeles Arrien
Attachment is the source of all suffering. — Gautama Buddha
We die as we lived. Whatever was most important in life, will consume us at death. Whatever attachments we had will become evident then. — Yasmin Mogahed
There is one thing we know about meaning, that meaning consists in attachment to something bigger than you are. The larger the thing that you… — Joel Garreau
If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen. — Adyashanti
The more attached we are to a vision of the future, the less present we are to what is actually trying to emerge here and… — Peter Merry
The world is your oyster. Yes, but in that oyster is the pearl; and to get to the pearl one has to first discard the… — Ian Gardner
There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life,… — Todd Gitlin
If the mother can't break the attachment, they say that the baby can't leave this world. For him to be happy in a good place… — Park Gye-Ok
Love is when I am concerned with your relationship with your own life, rather than with your relationship to mine. . . . there must… — Stewart Emery
Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like. Remember, it is not the size of a gift,… — Robert Thurman
Attachment leads to suffering. — Gautama Buddha
Love is the language of the soul when it is not colored by emotion, ego, or attachment. — Alan Finger
There's magic to love... Millions of years ago we evolved three basic drives: the sex love, romantic love, and attachment to a long-term partner. These… — Helen Fisher
Efficiency in an assembly requires a solid mass of steady votes; and these are collected by a deferential attachment to particular men, or by a… — Walter Bagehot
Those [American Jews] who favor the [Israeli] attack on Gaza are certainly guilty of such overwhelming emotional and cultural attachment to Israel and Israelis, that… — Glenn Greenwald

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