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Attachment Quotes by Famous Authors
1.
“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
City
,
Attachment
,
Nature
,
Belonging
,
Experience
2.
“The reason you are still in it, is because you do not know who you would be without it.”
Ankur Warikoo
Identity
,
Attachment
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Fear
,
Change
,
Purpose
3.
“We find it hard to let go of things, when we are scared to start all over again, to build it from scratch!”
Ankur Warikoo
Attachment
,
Fear
,
Letting-go
,
Courage
,
Renewal
4.
“We continue to cling on to what we have. And are scared to let go. Because we do not know how to get it again!”
Ankur Warikoo
Attachment
,
Fear
,
Letting-go
,
Uncertainty
,
Courage
5.
“We hold on to what we have because we don’t know how to get it again.”
Ankur Warikoo
Fear
,
Attachment
,
Uncertainty
,
Loss
,
Confidence
6.
“When one has love for God, one doesn’t feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.”
Ramakrishna
Love
,
God
,
Attachment
,
Compassion
,
Detachment
7.
“To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.”
Ramakrishna
Work
,
Attachment
,
Reward
,
Fear
,
God
8.
“Being rich is an obstacle to loving. When you are rich, you want to continue to be rich, and so you end up devoting all your time, all your energy, in your daily life to stay rich.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Wealth
,
Love
,
Attachment
,
Priorities
,
Simplicity
9.
“If we take something to be the truth, we may cling to it so much that when the truth comes and knocks on our door, we won’t want to let it in.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Truth
,
Attachment
,
Awareness
,
Perception
,
Wisdom
10.
“If we are free from attachment, we can easily recognize ourselves in other people, in different forms of manifestation, and then we don’t have to suffer.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Attachment
,
Freedom
,
Awareness
,
Suffering
,
Reflection
11.
“Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Attachment
,
Spirituality
,
Perspective
,
Growth
,
Freedom
12.
“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Freedom
,
Letting Go
,
Happiness
,
Attachment
,
Peace
13.
“It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Impermanence
,
Suffering
,
Attachment
,
Acceptance
,
Change
14.
“Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.”
Leonard Cohen
Age
,
Memory
,
History
,
Time
,
Attachment
15.
“Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.”
Thomas Merton
Attachment
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Spirituality
,
Balance
,
Detachment
,
Awareness
16.
“To become attached to the experience of peace is to threaten the true and essential and vital union of our soul with God above sense and experience in the darkness of a pure and perfect love.”
Thomas Merton
Peace
,
Attachment
,
Soul
,
God
,
Love
17.
“The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.”
Anton Chekhov
Place
,
Heart
,
Meaning
,
Attachment
,
Connection
18.
“I love him, love him. He’s a millstone round my neck – he’ll take me to the bottom with him. But I love this millstone of mine – I can’t live without it.”
Anton Chekhov
Love
,
Burden
,
Attachment
,
Passion
,
Dependence
19.
“He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.”
Chanakya
Attachment
,
Family
,
Grief
,
Happiness
,
Wisdom
20.
“Our enjoyment is tainted by anxiety about keeping what we have and our compulsion to reach out and get more.”
Tara Brach
Enjoyment
,
Anxiety
,
Attachment
,
Desire
,
Contentment
21.
“A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.”
Chogyam Trungpa
Suffering
,
Attachment
,
Awareness
,
Transformation
,
Growth
22.
“Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.”
Alice Walker
Love
,
Attachment
,
Growth
,
Freedom
,
Letting Go
23.
“Devotion means dropping the dualities of like and dislike, attachment and aversion. It means “what’s fine” and “what’s not fine” do not exist for you anymore; everything is fine. When a devotee says “God is everywhere” or “everything is God,” he is essentially saying “everything is fine.””
Sadhguru
Devotion
,
Dualities
,
Attachment
,
Spirituality
,
Acceptance
24.
“As long as one is in pursuit of something or the other, it is an endless process. As long as we are getting identified and attached to different situations we get into, however beautiful the situation may be, the moment you think “this is it,” you are trying to freeze yourself into a certain state of ignorance.”
Sadhguru
Pursuit
,
Identification
,
Attachment
,
Ignorance
,
Process
25.
“When we say we have patterns, there is a cyclical movement to everything. Our psychological and emotional processes also have become cyclical largely because of a very strong attachment and involvement with physical process, and physical process has to be cyclical; only then we exist. Without out cyclical movement there'll be no physical existence.”
Sadhguru
Patterns
,
Cycles
,
Psychology
,
Attachment
,
Existence
26.
“For most people, love is initially a joy, but after a while it becomes an anxiety. Why? Because this “key” has legs and a will of its own. You can’t keep it in your pocket or hang it around your neck. When you try to do that, two lives are heading straight for disaster!”
Sadhguru
Love
,
Anxiety
,
Relationship
,
Emotions
,
Attachment
27.
“People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.”
Chuck Palahniuk
Pain
,
Stories
,
Memories
,
Attachment
,
Human Psychology
28.
“The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don’t know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.”
Chuck Palahniuk
Family
,
Relationships
,
Attachment
,
Loyalty
,
Psychology
29.
“The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something – usually ourselves.”
Pema Chodron
Generosity
,
Letting Go
,
Pain
,
Attachment
,
Emotional Freedom
30.
“Sometimes we find that we like our thoughts so much that we don’t want to let them go.”
Pema Chodron
Attachment
,
Awareness
,
Reflection
,
Self-Realization
,
Thought Process
31.
“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.”
Baruch Spinoza
Happiness
,
Unhappiness
,
Love
,
Attachment
,
Emotions
32.
“All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.”
Baruch Spinoza
Possession
,
Desire
,
Hindrance
,
Society
,
Attachment
33.
“A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.”
Ram Dass
Aversion
,
Attachment
,
Work
,
Awareness
,
Growth
34.
“Suffering only shows where you are attached. That is why, to those on the path, suffering is grace.”
Ram Dass
Suffering
,
Attachment
,
Grace
,
Path
,
Transformation
35.
“Another early memory is my wish for an ugly dog belonging to a neighbour. I kept my household in turmoil for weeks to get that dog. My ears were deaf to offers of pets with more prepossessing appearance. Moral: Attachment is blinding; it lends an imaginary halo of attractiveness to the object of desire. “A.”
Paramahansa Yogananda
Attachment
,
Desire
,
Clarity
,
Objectivity
,
Illusion
36.
“In the spiritual life one becomes just like a little child, without resentment, without attachment, full of life and joy.”
Paramahansa Yogananda
Spirituality
,
Childlike
,
Joy
,
Attachment
,
Life
37.
“Attachment is blinding; it lends an imaginary halo of attractiveness to the object of desire.”
Paramahansa Yogananda
Attachment
,
Desire
,
Illusion
,
Spiritual Clarity
,
Freedom
38.
“Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.”
Ramana Maharshi
Loss
,
Belief
,
Freedom
,
Attachment
,
Reality
39.
“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
God
,
Attachment
,
Desire
,
Devotion
,
Prayer
40.
“It is your attachment that creates hell.”
Osho Rajneesh
Attachment
,
Inner Peace
,
Letting Go
,
Suffering
,
Freedom
41.
“All duality is a mind creation, all duality is created by the clinging and attached mind. When there is no attachment there is no duality.”
Osho Rajneesh
Duality
,
Mind
,
Attachment
,
Awareness
,
Freedom
42.
“My approach is neither of attachment nor of detachment, but of simple understanding.”
Osho Rajneesh
Understanding
,
Detachment
,
Attachment
,
Simplicity
,
Approach
43.
“Attachment is the root cause of all misery. Possessiveness is nourishment for the ego.”
Osho Rajneesh
Attachment
,
Misery
,
Ego
,
Possessiveness
,
Freedom
44.
“Transcendence means going beyond duality. Attachment means remaining within duality.”
Osho Rajneesh
Transcendence
,
Duality
,
Attachment
,
Freedom
,
Enlightenment
45.
“Don’t get attached to anything.”
Osho Rajneesh
Attachment
,
Freedom
,
Awareness
,
Non-Attachment
,
Emotional Balance
46.
“Misery is nothing but the shadow of attachment. And hence all stagnancy. The attached person becomes a stagnant pool – sooner or later he will stink. He flows no more.”
Osho Rajneesh
Misery
,
Attachment
,
Freedom
,
Stagnation
,
Mind
47.
“Attachment is the food for the mind to continue. Non-attached witnessing is the way to stop it without any effort to stop it. And when you start enjoying those blissful moments, your capacity to retain them for longer periods arises.”
Osho Rajneesh
Attachment
,
Mind
,
Witnessing
,
Peace
,
Detachment
48.
“First the husband tried to make the wife his possession, and once she is a possession he loses interest. There is some hidden logic in it: his whole interest was to possess; now that is finished, and he would like to try some other woman so he can again go on another trip of possession.”
Osho Rajneesh
Possession
,
Relationships
,
Ego
,
Attachment
,
Marriage
49.
“Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love.”
Osho Rajneesh
Attachment
,
Love
,
Freedom
,
Relationships
,
Detachment
50.
“Don’t be attached to the things of the world, and don’t be attached to the things of the other world, because things are things. It makes no difference whether they are of this world or the other world – attachment is the problem.”
Osho Rajneesh
Attachment
,
Materialism
,
Detachment
,
Life
,
Freedom
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