Attachment Quote by Mark A.R. Kleiman

“The shadow of greed, attachment is. What you fear to lose, train yourself to release. Let go of fear, and loss cannot harm you.”

— Terry Brooks

“Out of the hobbled spirit of attachment, and the insecure need of belonging, come the gross judgments against those who do not belong.”

— Bryant McGill

“Material possession is one thing, but ideological passion disgusts us on some deep level.”

— David Foster Wallace

“For those who have little are not equally held in subjection by their possessions as those who overflow with affluence, for then the love…

— Saint John Chrysostom

“Removing possessions begins to turn back our desire for more as we find freedom, happiness, and abundance in owning less. And”

— Joshua Becker

“the doctrine of non-attachment.”

— Swami Vivekananda

"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“We have engrossed to ourselves, in a time when other powerful nations were paralysed by barbarism or internal war, an altogether disproportionate share of…

— Margaret MacMillan

“Desire is not always lessened by disgust. Nor can it be bestowed, like favor, to those most deserving of it”

— Cassandra Clare

“One may even have ‘greed’ for self-respect. Greed gives rise to circumstances. When circumstance arises, worldly life arises.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“Non-attachment doesn’t mean you forgo possessions, pleasure, or comfort. It simply means you are at peace when those things fail to show up in…

— Darren Main

“Fundamental disposition towards others, assuming the character either of Envy or of Sympathy, is the point at which the moral virtues and vices of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer