Quotes About Attachment

There are lines of yours I know by heart. There are scents of yours soaked in my skin.

In a society where you are taught to love everything, what value does that place on love?

Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.

We must question every inner-belief we possess without fear or attachment.

Maybe is wasn't love so much as a fear of losing everything I'd accomplished. I was afraid to let go.

If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.

My favorite word is 'pumpkin.' You can't take it seriously. But you can't ignore it, either. It takes ahold of your head and that's it. You are a pumpkin. Or you are not. I am.

the seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his birth, the naturalized American citizen holds fast to the food of his parents.

It is not customary to love what one has.

Place is security, space is freedom.

Freedom is from something. What are you to be free from? Obviously, you must be free from the person you take yourself to be, for it is the idea you have of yourself that keeps you in bondage.

True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.

Those... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like shining lights, having reached final liberation in the world.

Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.

We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved.

We long to connect; we fear that if we do, our freedom and individuality will disappear.

There are tensions abroad where people don't understand our attachment to the freedom of speech, we've seen the protests, and I would say that in France all beliefs are respected.

Anything you strive to hold captive will hold you captive, and if you desire freedom you must give freedom.

In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.

I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.

Is detachment the answer to freedom? No, because detachment is negative - it is to be without. The answer must be positive - I must replace what I have with something better.

I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.

The revolutionary can have no friendship or attachment, except for those who have proved by their actions that they, like him, are dedicated to revolution.

I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.