Attachments Quotes

#1. The road for Arjuna is unexpected. Sri Krishna says you have to face that which you fear the most that which you're most attached to and eliminate it. In this case he has to fight a battle, and the battle is his attachments.

Frederick Lenz

#2. Folks are wandering around that proverbial parking lot of the Internet all day long, without giving it a thought to whose attachments they're opening, what sites they're visiting. And that makes it easy for the bad guys.

James Comey

#3. The politics of trans-identity seeks to move from the _politics of singular identity_ to the _politics of multiple solidarities_ across various identities without abandoning one's personal attachments and commitments to the group that one finds significant.

Namsoon Kang

#4. I think about you all the time. I can't stop."
Shaking my head, I ran my palm over my wet face. This couldn't be happening to me. I would not allow it. I knew better.
"Addison, it's natural to form attachments to your teachers."
"Is it natural to picture them fucking you?

Ella Frank

#5. The country has sorted itself ideologically into the two political parties, and those partisan attachments have hardened in recent years. It will take an extraordinary event and act of leadership to break this partisan divide. I thought 9/11 might provide such an opportunity, but it was not seized.

Thomas E. Mann

#6. All things are transitory. All things must pass. Attachments whether to material possessions, to people, to places to name, are futile. Despite your clinging, these things will fade away.

Hari Kunzru

#7. Non-possession does not mean having nothing. It does not mean to live as a penniless beggar. Rather than meaning having nothing, it is the idea of not possessing what we do not need. The more we possess, The more we have attachments.

Boep Joeng

#8. You may know the pain of possessing and dependency, reducing persons to objects, but this is not love. Love doesn't attempt to bind, ensnare, capture. It is light, free of the burden of attachments. Love asks nothing, is fulfilled in itself. When love is there, nothing remains to be done.

Vimala Thakar

#9. In our instinctive attachments, our fear of change, and our wish for certainty and permanence, we may undercut the impermanence which is our greatest strength, our most fundamental identity. Without impermanence, there is no process. The nature of life is change. All hope is based on process.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#10. In Hell, it's our attachments to a fixed identity that torture us.

Chuck Palahniuk

#11. Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.

Lionel Shriver

#12. In 'Attachments,' which is told from a male point of view, people asked me if a man would really think that much about whether a woman likes him. But I have a husband and three brothers, and they're all like that.

Rainbow Rowell

#13. Freedom is to be free of attachments, and the main attachment is to the 'I'-self.

Mooji

#14. True freedom and power only comes when one is free of attachments.

Bryant McGill

#15. The worldly vision is filled with infinite infatuations and attachments and no one can escape from it; [hence] there is no alternative other than staying in Gnani's feet [surrendering to the enlightened one is the only alternative].

Dada Bhagwan

#16. How wonderful, how miraculous, all beings, but all beings, are fully endowed with the wisdom and power of the Tathagat. But, sadly, human beings, due to sticky attachments, are not aware of it

Gautama Buddha

#17. You end up isolated if you don't cultivate the capacity for solitude; the ability to be separate; to gather yourself. Solitude is where you find yourself so you can reach out to other people and form real attachments.

Sherry Turkle

#18. Gabriel discourages emotional attachments the way most of us discourage door-to-door salesmen. They're inconvenient, intrusive, and liable to end up saddling you with something you never wanted in the first place, at a cost far higher than you wish to pay.

Kelley Armstrong

#19. Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured.

Thomas E. Mann

#20. I don't have sentimental attachments to characters at all.

Martin Freeman

#21. A man could be in a throne and have no attachment at all; another one could be in rags and have many attachments.

Swami Vivekananda

#22. 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 that their emotional attachments to Israel cause ... The Israeli occupation of all territories must end, including Congress.

Cynthia McKinney

#23. Children who experience anxious or ambivalent attachments to their primary caregivers may "fall in love" too easily, seeking extreme closeness right off the bat and reacting intensely to any suggestion of abandonment.

Adam Cash

#24. Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have to wait for a very long time indeed.

Ramana Maharshi

#25. With 'Attachments,' my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.

Rainbow Rowell

#26. Free from attachments to the past and worries about the future, a child expresses him/herself fully.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#27. No matter how much you talk to yourself, read, study, or practice, you can't develop or set boundaries apart from supportive relationships with God and others. Don't even try to start setting limits until you have entered into deep, abiding attachments with people who will love you no matter what.

Henry Cloud

#28. The biggest energy losses for most people are relationships, interrelations with other people. That is where we lose the most energy, through our attachments - opening up to people who might be very nice on the surface but underneath they have a lot of problems.

Frederick Lenz

#29. Just practice good, do good for others, without thinking of making yourself known so that you may gain reward. Really bring benefit to others, gaining nothing for yourself. This is the primary requisite for breaking free of attachments to the Self.

Dogen

#30. That sentence is: "Nothing is to be clung to as I, me, or mine." In other words, no attachments - especially to fixed ideas of yourself and who you are.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#31. Suffering lets us see where are attachments are - and that helps us get free.

Ram Dass

#32. Vitragta [a state of freedom from all worldly attachments] is the only way to 'swim' across lifetimes.

Dada Bhagwan

#33. [Let] go of your attachments: your attachment to being right, to having total control, or to living forever. This process of letting go is integral to the process of becoming whole.

Judith Hanson Lasater

#34. Pain is inevitable, from this perspective, but suffering is an optional extra, resulting from our attachments, which represent our attempt to try to deny the unavoidable truth that everything is impermanent.

Oliver Burkeman

#35. You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long for inaction. Perform work in this world, Arjuna, as a man established within himself - without selfish attachments, and alike in success and defeat.

Anonymous

#36. Life, despite the accompanying loneliness that afflicts human without umbilical attachments, was to be cherished for the sheer joy of nature.

Aporva Kala

#37. Happiness does not come from the things that we have but the abandoning of things that we cling to, by letting go of the attachments to things we don't want.

Kevin Griffin

#38. You wake up oneday and it's different, not so much in a physical way but in the way you look at things. I think when you reach that primary moment in your life, you finally have the courage to let go of the human attachments and start to live in a way that compliments your heart and soul.

Nikki Rowe

#39. A person only experiences the fathomlessly beautiful and mysterious particulars that constitute reality by giving up the distorting spectacles of our egotistical appetites and repulsive pretensions, shedding artificial attachments, living without grand illusions, and free of deceptive delusions.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#40. There is such a thing as too much loss. Too much has been taken from you both - taken and taken and taken, until there's nothing left but hope, and you've given that up because it hurts too much. Until you would rather die, or kill, or avoid attachments altogether, than lose one more thing.

N.K. Jemisin

#41. Listen, ultimately we have to let go of all attachments - I mean all attachments.

Art Hochberg

#42. We make attachments to what's familiar. We find the beauty, even in the lack. That's human. We make the best of what we're given.

Emily Murdoch

#43. The nature of the dunya as a place of fleeting moments and temporary attachments.

Yasmin Mogahed

#44. Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.

Oprah Winfrey

#45. All our attachments are outward oriented and hence this illusion.

Osho

#46. Attachments stir the soul, ignite the emotions. Guard what moves you, reserving that for the truth.

Suhaib Webb

#47. 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, there is more freedom, more ease, and less misery.

Thomas Jefferson

#48. Other people can't cause us to be impatient unless we let them do so. In other words, others don't make us impatient. We make ourselves impatient, through our expectations and demands, fixated attachments and stuckness.

Lama Surya Das

#49. I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.

Charles Lamb

#50. Again and again, I find something eerie in many Irish occasions - the unrelenting whiteness, the emotional tribal attachments, the violent prejudices lurking beneath apparently pleasant social surfaces, the cosy smugness of belonging.

Tom Paulin

#51. To apologize for your personal absolutes, for what Sandy Pinter calls your "Core Attachments," means apologizing for your very existence.

Walter Kirn

#52. 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 go for the ride freely, no matter what happens.

Dan Millman

#53. You put books out into the world, and people form their own visuals and images and attachments to characters; those characters become part of them, and they have their feelings about them.

Cassandra Clare

#54. The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening.

Adi Shankara

#55. 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 humans.

Caroline Knapp

#56. Attachments and bereavements are inseparable.

Mason Cooley

#57. They had the same fears that you have, the same aggressive tendencies and the same attachments, but they were freed in time because they believed.

Frederick Lenz

#58. Remember me? I'm back to my old self again. No responsibilities, no attachments, no encumbrances. I don't want to own anything, love anyone, or get too attached to people, places or things. It's a rule that seems to work well for me.

Danielle Steel

#59. Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.

Thomas Clarkson

#60. In the mountains, worldly attachments are left behind, and in the absence of material distractions, we are opened up to spiritual thought. We should be attempting to carry the spiritual experience of the mountains with us everywhere.

Jamling Tenzing Norgay

#61. 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 so on.

Brian Browne Walker

#62. The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#63. That holding on to things "will only break your heart." So he avoided attachments,

Mitch Albom

#64. Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.

Lisa Alther

#65. All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.

Sri Aurobindo

#66. Attachments to older forms of worship may be comfortable, but they may contain elements of falsehood that make them unacceptable to God.

Max Anders

#67. Our recent research indicates that an absence of warmth, acceptance, and support characterizes the early family life of many hoarders, perhaps leading them to form strong emotional attachments to possessions.

Gail Steketee

#68. You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who worry what you think of them. You can really only punish people who are already a little bit good.

Lionel Shriver

#69. Become alert about desire and non-attachment begins to appear. This is not to be made to happen, it follows naturally from awareness of attachment. Each one of us has to become aware of his attachments, and keep being so! Nothing should be done unconsciously.

Rajneesh

#70. When 'Attachments' came out and people liked it, I'd have a warm feeling of having made a connection.

Rainbow Rowell

#71. Reward systems, such as those mediated by dopamine, also destabilize during adolescence in order to allow for the creation of new attachments, behaviors, and goals. This search for purpose and meaning makes adolescents more vulnerable to good and bad social influences,

Louis Cozolino

#72. You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

Bede Griffiths

#73. Witness your thoughts. Your thoughts are attachments.

Ram Dass

#74. It was strange the paths the human heart chose to take and the attachments it made along the way. The surest sign of the altruistic nature of the organ is its ability to ignore race, color, creed, and gender and just blindly love with all its might - one of the most irrefutable forces on earth. They

Craig Johnson

#75. The extra luggage of indiscriminate dreams, desires and attachments will make your life's journey miserable.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#76. Dying to your own attachments is a beautiful death.
Because this death release you into real life.
You have to die as a seed to live as a tree.

Mooji

#77. I always have tendency to form very strong local attachments, so I was very keen to find out about the school I was going to, its history, and the countryside. I was acquiring a kind of English character if you like, Englishness about things and my attitudes.

Ibn Warraq

#78. To find true freedom, relinquish all of your attachments.

Debasish Mridha

#79. To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.

Benjamin Hoff

#80. Kids who enter 'adulthood' without any strong attachments to people who know and care about them have a rough road ahead, to say the least.

Rhea Perlman

#81. Attachment is the shadow of the ego. Attachments are immediately created wherever you see 'I am'.

Rajneesh

#82. When someone is drowning in the ocean of attachments, Surrender is the life jacket they can put on and wait for the rescue team

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#83. Quote from Deadly Deception:

He had always killed before just like a mechanic tightens a bolt; dispassionately, no attachments, with a trigger that responded perfectly to his command.

Eric

Eric Redmon

#84. The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy is the same as letting go of our unhappiness.

Guy Finley

#85. She would tell me that it was a sign that your heart was pure, that you formed deep attachments, and that once you loved something - or someone - you would never stop.

Nicholas Sparks

#86. 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 the spirit of our government; and to admit of a probability at least, of their feeling a real interest in our affairs.

Alexander Hamilton

#87. Kids with Down syndrome are, by and large, quite affectionate and relatively guileless, and frequently, the attachments to them grow and deepen. And the meaning that parents find in it grows and deepens.

Andrew Solomon

#88. Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments...

Thomas Lynch

#89. 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

#90. What Jesus meant was that whoever is attached to the worldly life and this earthly body will lose them in death. But whoever lets go of attachments to this worldly life and this earthly body and identifies with the permanence or God-consciousness that Jesus represented, will never die.

Rama Swami

#91. Emotional attachments are messy. They end with broken hearts and stalking.

Lauren Barnholdt

#92. The molecules that allow microbes to catch their prey and hold on to them are likely candidates for the molecules that form the rivet attachments between cells in our bodies.

Neil Shubin

#93. Once upon a time the future was supposed to be brighter, shinier and more fun. When did that vision pass? When did the word 'new' lose it's luster? Now the past is supposed to hold the hopes we once confided to the future. We're directing attachments that used to go forward backward.

Ann Marlowe

#94. It's only when you become love - in other words, when you have dropped your illusions and attachments - that you will "know." As you identify less and less with the "me," you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything.

Anthony De Mello

#95. The capacity to form attachments on equal terms is considered evidence of emotional maturity. It is the absence of this capacity which is pathological. Whether there may be other criteria of emotional maturity, like the capacity to be alone, is seldom taken into account.

Anthony Storr

#96. You must choose between your attachments and happiness.

Adyashanti

#97. The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions.

Lester Levenson

#98. When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.

Zhuangzi

#99. Attachments that are not fostered may lend to the child's inability to properly attach or have no attachment at all.

Asa Don Brown

#100. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. My attachments are always excessively strong.

Jane Austen