Love Without Attachment Quotes

#1. Love without attachment is light.

Norman O. Brown

#2. Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby.

Helen Fisher

#3. I hated this love that I had for my family - love that demanded my time and energy, that sought to control my life down to every thought and action.
I now realize that it was not love but an unhealthy attachment, born out of a need for security and a sense of duty.

Indu Muralidharan

#4. Real compassion is based on reason. Ordinary compassion or love is limited by desire or attachment.

Dalai Lama XIV

#5. The trick is not to get hooked on the highs and lows and mistake an activated attachment system for passion or love. Don't let emotional unavailability turn you on.

Amir Levine

#6. Sex is an attachment behavior, reinforcing the social bond between adults. Sometimes it takes the form of passionate, joyful sex between people who are falling in love with each other. Sometimes it takes the form of desperate, grasping sex between people whose attachment is threatened.

Emily Nagoski

#7. Love with attachment consists of waves of emotion, usually creating invisible iron chains.

S. N. Goenka

#8. Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love.

Rajneesh

#9. Her jaw dropped. She grabbed him by the shoulders. "I think I have formed an attachment to you. You know, what the English call a desire to have symphonic concerts with someone at all hours of the day?"
He smiled. "And I love you too, darling."
-Lizzy and Will

Sherry Thomas

#10. If one calls upon Him repeatedly, He becomes compassionate; and so a devoted attachment comes into being. This love for love's sake should be hidden from all eyes.

Sarada Devi

#11. We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.

George Ripley

#12. The paternal and filial duties discipline the heart, and prepare it for the love of all mankind. The intensity of private attachment encourages, not prevents, universal benevolence.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#13. All over now. He is either in joy or nothingness.
(So why grieve?
The worst of it, for him, is over.)
Because I loved him so and am in the habit of loving him and that love must take the form of fussing and worry and doing.

George Saunders

#14. A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than man's. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#15. If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love.

Alphonsus Liguori

#16. We have lived too closely, been through too much. I will not leave you. I cannot, any more than I can leave myself.

Sebastian Faulks

#17. An error of the passions is not the flowering of a great love, and merely the beauty of the human form is not capable of inspiring an eternity of mad attachment.

Rachilde

#18. I'm learning more and more that love plus attachment equals pain.

Lisa Bonet

#19. Lose everything, even the attachment to holiness, so that you aim only at one thing: to love

Chiara Lubich

#20. Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome? If not, you have no ability to give or experience compassion. That is the shocking truth.

Gary Zukav

#21. Staying back without any attachment, emotional bonding, would be more devastating than moving out

Kalpa Das

#22. Much of our suffering is caused by our false perceptions and attachment to mental images. We assume things to be true without really knowing whether they are true or not, then create a world of hurt for ourselves and others.

Joseph P. Kauffman

#23. Without attachment, a naked body is merely a lifeless sex-toy.

Abhijit Naskar

#24. Love is not emotional attachment or codependency. Love is being complete without needing to have another person by your side.

Cloris Kylie

#25. Let not your love become attachment, nor your hate become destruction.

Umar

#26. The secure attachment of Western psychology is actually akin to Buddhist non-attachment; avoid-ant attachment is the inverse of being mindful and present; and anxious attachment aligns with Buddhist notions of clinging and grasping.

Sharon Salzberg

#27. Attachment is conditional, offers love only to certain people in certain ways; it is exclusive. Love, in the sense of metta, used by Buddha, is a universal, nondiscriminating feeling of caring and connectedness.

Jack Kornfield

#28. Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.

George Washington

#29. Thousands and thousands of incarnations and nothing to show for it. You must choose whether to follow the path of love or the path of attachment.

Frederick Lenz

#30. Attachment strangles freedom and clarity and makes us a puppet to our desires and cravings; attachment is the root of suffering, a root that if left unattended grows into a tree which drops the fruits of anger, greed, envy, dispersion, competitiveness, ego and pain

Evan Sutter

#31. 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

#32. It was the most natural thing in the world because from out of his mouth were coming most of the things I felt. In another person, one i did not have this attachment to, it would have been gushing, clingy and embarrassing, from him it was like having a mirror held up to my soul.

Dorothy Koomson

#33. people who love their addictions have an attachment to something with no life force.

Galen Stoller

#34. The Lord says that abhorrence is beneficial. Love-attachment [Prem-raag] will never leave. The entire world is trapped in the suffering due to love-attachment (prem-parishaha). Just say your greetings from afar and become free.

Dada Bhagwan

#35. 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 body without attachment. Thus, the body becomes absolutely pure.

Frederick Lenz

#36. Play the game of life as if you have nothing to lose, no attachment.

Jay Woodman

#37. As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not lead another person to himself, this love, even if it seems to be the most secure and ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced, is not true love. For real love is dedicated to continual becoming.

Leo Buscaglia

#38. I like challenging parts, something I haven't done yet, something that scares me. There's just a feeling I get when I read a script that I love, I feel an attachment to it, a yearning to play that character.

Tatiana Maslany

#39. 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

#40. Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way of experiencing attachment.

Caroline Knapp

#41. I have no fear of losing u, for you aren't an object of my property, or anyone else's. I love you as you are, without attachment, without fears, without conditions, without egoism, trying not to absorb you. I love you freely because I love your freedom, as well as mine.

Anthony De Mello

#42. When I experience Love I must go to God. When I experience non-attachment God must come to me.

Meister Eckhart

#43. Attachment to spiritual things is ... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

Beverly Sills

#44. Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#45. God loves all those who love him: I love them that love Me.

Alphonsus Liguori

#46. Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with its happiness or its misery. The love of life is, in general, the effect not of our enjoyments, but of our passions.

William Hazlitt

#47. Love is an attachment which develops through human interaction.

Auliq Ice

#48. But the path of self-purification is hard and steep. To attain to perfect purity one has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action; to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I

Mahatma Gandhi