Real Attachment Quotes

#1. There can be no real attachment to the given creation, no genuine responsibility in the world, unless we recognize the breach which already separates us from it.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#2. A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere.

Jean De La Bruyere

#3. The true language of commerce is the natural conversation between human beings.

William C. Brown

#4. You can do your best and then, if things don't go your way, still become unconstructively upset, in a way that hinders your ability to bounce back. Dropping the attachment is the real trick.

Dan Harris

#5. People who refuse to let go often make small requests that appear reasonable, like Tommy's letter of reference, though the real purpose of such requests is to cement attachment or gain new reasons for contact.

Gavin De Becker

#6. Overcoming attachment does not mean becoming cold and indifferent. On the contrary, it means learning to have relaxed control over our mind through understanding the real causes of happiness and fulfillment, and this enables us to enjoy life more and suffer less.

Kathleen McDonald

#7. It's a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. It's a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.

Michael Bolton

#8. Real love is not based on attachment, but on altruism. In this case, your compassion will remain as a humane response to suffering as long as beings continue to suffer.

Dalai Lama

#9. Clinging to our ideas of perfection isolates us from life and is a barrier.

Sharon Salzberg

#10. But that expression of 'violently in love' is so hackneyed, so doubtful, so indefinite, that it gives me very little idea. It is as often applied to feelings which arise from a half-hour's acquaintance, as to a real, strong attachment.

Jane Austen

#11. If I was sad or afraid, I would sit in a corner and sing. If I was happy I would jump into the middle of the room and sing. It was how I expressed my emotions.

Nana Mouskouri

#12. Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

Hosea Ballou

#13. 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

#14. People that love quotes are those short on time, but long on big ideas.

Bruce Edwin

#15. After 12 intense years of rock music, I was happy to get away from making a record and going out on a tour. When I did it, I wanted to feel inspired. After a while I finally had my fill working on other people's music, and I started coming up with music on my own and said, 'This could be for me.'

James Iha

#16. Who can work without any attachment? That is the real question.

Swami Vivekananda

#17. If you follow nature you will not be able to vanquish the tragic in any real degree in your art ... We must free ourselves from our attachment to the external, for only then do we transcend the tragic, and are enabled consciously to contemplate the repose which is within all things.

Piet Mondrian

#18. Nothing perceivable is real.Your attachment is your bondage. You cannot control the future.There is no such thing as free will. Will is bondage.You identify yourself with your desires and become their slave.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#19. Your attachment to unhealthy people and bad habits, which offer you no real control, is why you're spiritually dying and living a life out of balance.

Shannon L. Alder

#20. 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, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.

Todd Gitlin

#21. What a young musician's dream, to say, "Look at those chrome drums. Look at that 22-inch ride cymbal. I'll have those." It was one of those unparalleled exciting days of your life.

Neil Peart

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

Adi Shankara

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

Dalai Lama XIV

#24. I never had any childhood, for the word means sunshine and freedom from care. I had a starved and pinched little childhood, as far as love and merriment go.

Frank Leslie

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that

Claude Lanzmann

#28. There are more and more taboos about calling something, anything, ugly.

Susan Sontag

#29. People think a watch must weigh a lot to be a luxury. But there's no reason why we should add weight to create value. People have to overcome these notions.

Richard Mille

#30. I'm going for it. Every part of my body says to jump and fly, no matter how hard voices like Shay and my parents try to ground me. I understand their realism, but I don't want to look back and regret not taking the plunge.

Krista Ritchie