Quotes About Attachment

You can no more cut yourself away from the past than you can cut out your own heart.

How can you be alienated without first having been connected?

Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life, and yet less attached to it.

You see in all my life I've never found what I couldn't resist, what I couldn't turn down. I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.

Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.

If you are attached to the things of this earth, you should give alms sufficient to enable you to punish your avarice by depriving yourself of all that is not absolutely necessary for life.

What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down wonderful opportunities simply because don't know what to do with it.

Being codependent means that when you die, someone else's life passes before your eyes.

Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.

We just have to recognize life for what it is: a gift to be grateful for, not a property to cling to, hoard, or defend.

The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this place.

I'm pleased to say I am here for life at Michigan State.

I've learned... That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, that you're hooked for life.

Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.

It is my desire to show my attachment to the cause of Him who died for me by devoting my life to His service.

An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.

I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.

Lookin back on it at least my pride is in tact cause we said no strings attached and I still got tied up in that

We mistakenly bind ourselves to be content only when life is feeling pleasurable.

You either have faith or fear, not both. Things, they think, generate fear. The more things you have, the more you have to fear. Eventually you are living your life for things.

It is precisely because our present life is so inseparably linked with desire that we must make use of desire's tremendous energy if we wish to transform our life into something transcendental.

I will always be here, in the offering and people I left behind.