Attachments Quotes

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If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner. — John Barrymore
He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is… — Samuel Adams
Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to learn the principles and imbibe… — Alexander Hamilton
All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being. As… — Eckhart Tolle
Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go. — Oprah Winfrey
Happiness can only be found within, by breaking attachments to external things and cultivating an attitude of acceptance. — Jonathan Haidt
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, rather than enjoy it, until you let go of your mind's attachments and just… — Dan Millman
All of our miseries are nothing but attachment. Our whole ignorance and darkness is a strange combination of a thousand and one attachments. And we… — Rajneesh
Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone. — Lisa Alther
Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being. — Laozi
Most of the world's religions serve only to strengthen attachments to false concepts such as self and other, life and death, heaven and earth, and… — Laozi
This is the whole secret of non-attachment: live in the world, but don't be of the world. Love people, but don't create attachments. Reflect people,… — Rajneesh
True transformation occurs only when we can look at ourselves squarely and face our attachments and inner demons, free from the buzz of commercial distraction… — Julia Hill
When the mind is kept away from its preoccupations, it becomes quiet. If you do not disturb this quiet and stay in it, you find… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The greatest dread of ordinary man is death, with its rude imposition interrupting fortuitous plans and fondest attachments with an unknown and unwelcome change. The… — Paramahansa Yogananda
A tribute . . . is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism, which adorn the characters selected to devise and adopt [the… — George Washington
I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages; for though there is less wealth there,… — Thomas Jefferson
The constitution ought to secure a genuine militia and guard against a select militia. ...All regulations tending to render this general militia useless and defenseless,… — Richard Henry Lee
You must choose between your attachments and happiness. — Adyashanti
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

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