Quotes About Attachment

Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows.

The selfless and unattached man may live in the very heart of a crowded and sinful city; he will not be touched by sin.

Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment. Why

Buddha gave up his throne and renounced his position, that was true renunciation; but there cannot be any question of renunciation in the case of a beggar who has nothing to renounce.

all misery comes from fear, from unsatisfied desire.

To love anyone personally is bondage. Love all alike, then all desires fall off.

Thinking about sense-objects Will attach you to sense-objects; Grow attached, and you become addicted; Thwart your addiction, it turns to anger; Be angry, and you confuse your mind; Confuse your mind, you forget the lesson of experience; Forget experience, you lose discrimination; Lose discrimination, and you miss life's only purpose.

Love never comes until there is freedom

D esire, ignorance, and inequality this is the trinity of bondage

It's like resenting a mountain. From the very beginning they were closer. It was part of the unquestioned landscape of my childhood.

And the end of this paradox is that only when the child is thus free can he have the proper attachment to his parents; only when we allow his independence can he then freely offer us love and respect, without conflict and without resentment. It is the hardest lesson to learn that the goal of parenthood is not to reign forever but to abdicate gracefully at the right time.

Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.

I can't go long without you either, Eva. You're an addiction...my obsession...

He was my drug, and I had no desire to kick the habit.

It was like a tornado, you want to hold on to everything you have, you don't want to let anything go.

Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those.

That's the way with sentimental things: it's the memory the junk conjures that's valuable, not the junk itself.

She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer.

All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.

Ma?o kto ci? kocha?, wielu ci? nienawidzi?o. Kochano ci? byle jak, nienawidzono z ca?ej si?y.

There was no doubt that her brother was her mother's child, but time and again Hayako had the impression that she too shared her mother's blood. Not the thick, rich blood that flows peacefully through the veins, but the blood they sucked and licked from the scratches inflicted on each other when they fought tooth and nail — so passionate was their attachment.

The greed for fruit misses the flower.

Si vous acceptez la mort ici et maintenant, votre vie sera plus profonde. Il ne faut pas être attaché à la vie. Ni à la mort.

Lord, let us not hold tight to those earthly things we long for lest You be torn from our grasp.