Quotes About Attachment

He was afraid to pick up the baby. If he touched it, it might bond with him or something. Or he might leave fingerprints all over it.

My feelings for you run very deep." - LoorNot deep enought, I guess." - Bobby (The Rivers of Zadaa)

The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.

Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them.

Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality.

What is the world full of? It is full of things that arise, persist, and cease. Grasp and cling to them, and they produce suffering. Don't grasp and cling to them, and they do not produce suffering.

In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.

Today give up false mental attachments and beliefs! Free yourself from the delusion that anything external can fulfill the hunger of your soul for God-Consciousness.

No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it

We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.

Everything I've ever let go of has claw marks on it.

Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again.

I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together.

Physical circumstance will not cause happiness. Or if it does, there is the fear of loss. Now you are a slave to it. You have become bound to it.

The world appears solid to most people. It is filled with their pain, their desires, their private ecstasies, their expectations. They are that world - nothing glows.

Once you dominate yourself through conciousness, the attachments disappear and you can genuinely achieve your dreams.

It was a little thing, a baby tree, but still it tangled with things around it and required care to move. And when she pulled it out, it's roots still clung to Earth from it's old home.

...hero or not, he wanted to hold her forever and not let go.

I like to make you worry. It lets me know you care

Taming attachment, does not mean becoming cold and disinterested. On the contrary, it means learning to have a composed control over our mind through understanding

The fear of loving a dog, is knowing one day they'll be gone and you could never find eyes that express all that you feel.

I will always wear this scar. It's called love.

O, man of importance, perhaps with money and offspring you may start, But it is clear that with all these after a short time you will have to part. Happy is he who connects his heart to the Beloved. And with heart and soul is tied to the folk of heart.