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Quotes About Attachment

Oh Jesus God we did belong to each other. He was mine.
~ Truman Capote
Attachments to older forms of worship may be comfortable, but they may contain elements of falsehood that make them unacceptable to God.
~ Max Anders
Never become attached to anything that continues to hurt God. For you to be free of it, God must be allowed to hurt whatever it may be.
~ Oswald Chambers
The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God.
~ Radhanath Swami
For the Christian mystics, detachment meant to leave attachment so that God could enter you and take over completely and you could climb the ladder to their heaven. Kind of crazy, but what the hell?
~ Gerald Stern
Idols tend to be good things that you have turned into god things, which therefore become bad things
~ Mark Driscoll
I've never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow.
~ Joanne Harris
Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.
~ James Van Allen
Be Good, Do Good.Do thou always without attachment perform action which should be done, for by performing action without attachment, man reaches the Supreme.
~ Sivananda
Good karma leads to rebirth also. The desire for higher states of mind is a desire. When you are fixated on higher states of mind, you don't become enlightened.
~ Frederick Lenz
It's easy to get attached to idols, good things inappropriately adored. But when you have Jesus in the centre of a room, everything else only junks up the decor.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
Being a good psychoanalyst has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up.
~ Morton Hunt
Home," he repeated. "Home is where the heart is. Why don't you leave yours here? I'll take very good care of it.
~ Rachel Caine
And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.
~ Charles Bukowski
Having a beard is a good way to make your face more susceptible to velcro.
~ Demetri Martin
For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look for bliss.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
I have this disease that if I feel good somewhere, I... buy a house.
~ Christian Louboutin
I would really rather feel bad in Maine than feel good anywhere else
~ E. B. White
Our Constitution professedly rests upon the good sense and attachment of the people. This basis, weak as it may appear, has not yet been found to fail.
~ John Quincy Adams
My native land, good night!
~ Lord Byron
Even swadeshi, like any other good thing, can be ridden to death if it is made a fetish.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I was just thinking about my own natural way of one-night stands: always wanting to be more attached to something. I'm not very good at detaching myself.
~ Sampha
I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die-it's a major offence.
~ Clive Barker
The Arab and the camel are inseparable. It's been said that and Arab would give up his wife rather than give up his camel. Personally, I haven't got a camel, but I think it's a great idea.
~ Groucho Marx