Quotes About Attachment

Attachment is a reflex, an automatic response which often may not reflect our deepest good. Commitment is a conscious choice, to align ourselves with our most genuine values and our sense of purpose.

Missing someone meant that you are fortunate to love someone in the first place. If you don't miss them you don't love them

You get use to someone—start to like them, even—and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves.

Love is like a virus, easy to get infected and difficult to clean up

But even as she struck the bonds seemed to tighten, with each fresh blow to bind more securely. Mary now clung with every fibre of her sorely distressed and outraged being; with every memory that Stephen stirred; with every passion that Stephen had fostered; with every instinct of loyalty that Stephen had aroused to do battle with Martin.

I love you the way a drowning man loves air. And it would destroy me to have you just a little.

She'd forgotten how dogs could reach in and grab hold of a person's heart.

I don't trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they're going to get tired of me and take off.

We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

And whoever loves much will have great sorrow; therefore those whose love grows will know more sorrow.

Vasiyat Mir ne mujh ko yehi ki Ki sab kuchh hona tu, aashiq na hona.

If a man own land, the land owns him.

Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be, you can't see how it is.

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done.

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.

Solitude is in the mind of man. One might be in the thick of the world and maintain serenity of mind; such a one is in solitude. Another may stay in a forest, but still be unable to control his mind. He cannot be said to be in solitude. Solitude is a function of the mind. A man attached to desire cannot get solitude wherever he may be; a detached man is always in solitude.

Gods and goddesses, merits, demerits and their fruits, which are likewise anya (other than oneself), objects of attachment and the knowledge of those objects — all these will lead one to bondage in mighty samsara.

We imagine through our ignorance that we derive happiness from objects.

La soledad está en la mente de un hombre. Uno puede estar en el centro del mundo y sin embargo mantener una perfecta serenidad; una persona así siempre está en soledad. Otro puede estar en el bosque, y aún así, ser incapaz de controlar su mente. Entonces no se puede decir que esté en soledad. La soledad es un actitud del ánimo; un hombre apegado a las cosas de la vida no puede alcanzar la soledad, no importa dónde esté. Un hombre desapegado está siempre en soledad.

Always remember the hankering for the 'other' is never for them, but to use them as a means of your EGO, you turn them into a commodity and thats why every relationship gets ruined. Mind YOU!

every being loves ther own self more than anything else, for this is only natural. We love our children and our wealth only because we think of them as parts of ourselves, as belonging to us. Thus men never love their children, the homes or their gold as much as they do their own bodies, their selves. For these are never entirely identified with the self, but only perceived as belonging to the self.

The ego is the maya. Now, what is maya? It's the sense of personal doership.