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Have you ever stopped to think about the importance of attachments in our lives?
Attachments are like the glue that holds the pieces of our existence together – either healthy or toxic, depending on the kind of people we are attached to.
Attachments are the bonds we form with family, friends, and the places we call home. These connections give life its depth and meaning, turning ordinary moments into cherished memories. The bond of attachments isn’t just about people – it extends to the emotions and experiences that shape who we are.
We’ve carefully curated these words of insight that will help you to embark on a journey of wisdom as we bring you a collection of the finest spiritual and meaningful quotes on attachments.
Inspirational Attachment Quotes
Each quote is a gentle reminder of the significance of attachments in adding meaning to our journey.
- “Attachment is the source of all suffering.” – Buddha
- “Going to a gym or playing a sport should not be mechanical. There should be an emotional attachment to it.” — Naga Chaitanya
- “Love without attachment is light.” — Norman O. Brown
- “I had an attachment disorder.” — Dave Pelzer
- “Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed that is. Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.” – Yoda
- “You only lose what you cling to.” – Buddha
- “He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.” — Chanakya
- “Try not to confuse attachment with love. Attachment is about fear and dependency and has more to do with love of self than love of another. Love without attachment is the purest love because it isn’t about what others can give you because you’re empty. It is about what you can give others because you’re already full.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “Attachment parenting is this theory that if you wear your baby around and you sleep with your baby, the baby will be more attached to you.” — Sarah Ruhl
- “Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed that is. Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.” – Yoda
Best Attachment Quotes
- “You only lose what you cling to.” – Buddha
- “The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.” — William Bartram
- “Try not to confuse attachment with love. Attachment is about fear and dependency and has more to do with love of self than love of another. Love without attachment is the purest love because it isn’t about what others can give you because you’re empty. It is about what you can give others because you’re already full.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.” – Nhat Hanh
- “I have a strong attachment to Harvard.” — Eric Maskin
- “Great ideas have no attachment to either money or class.” — Ian Schrager
- “Peer attachments are not the problem themselves. It’s when they compete with adult attachments that problems emerge. It’s just like when siblings get attached to each other. If they start revolving around each other, then the parents can’t do anything with them because it’s a competing attachment.” — Gordon Neufeld
- “Let go and be free.” – ATGW
- “Attachment is the state of ignorance or forgetfulness, and thus clinging to a memory of enjoyment.” – Goswami Kriyananda
- “Attachment constrains our vision so that we are not able to see things from a wider perspective.” – Dalai Lama
Inspirational Quotes On Attachment
- “Everything is temporary; emotions, thoughts, people, and scenery. Do not become attached, just flow with it.” – Anonymous
- “I love to cook, and my wife loves to cook. Sometimes it’s the appeal of the simplest of dishes – things you’ve grown up with in your life. Your emotional memory – something that not only affects your taste buds but that you’ve got an emotional attachment to.” — Andy Garcia
- “Conservatism, for me, is the philosophy and the politics of attachment.” — Roger Scruton
- “Fire itself is very beautiful, and there’s an attachment to fire that firefighters have.” — Matthew Desmond
- “Attachment is another name of disappointment and pain. – Vishal”
- “He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.” — Chanakya
- “Things are as they are, we suffer because we imagined different.” – Anonymous
- “My home nurtured in me an early attachment to books and other things of the intellect, to music, and to the out of doors.” — Herbert A. Simon
- “Accept what comes and allow it to leave when it’s time.” – Anonymous
More Attachment Quotes & Sayings
- “Anything you can’t control is teaching you how to let go.” – Jackson Kiddard
- “Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love.” – Rajneesh
- “Attachment is the strongest block to realization.” – Neem Karoli Baba
- “Detach from needing to have things work out a certain way. The universe is perfect and there are no failures. Give yourself the gift of detaching from your worries and trust that everything is happening perfectly.” – Anonymous
- “For Conservatives, all disputes over the law, liberty, and justice are addressed to a historic and existing community. The root of politics, they believe, is attachment – the motive in human beings that binds them to the place, the customs, the history, and the people who are theirs.” — Roger Scruton
- “Be completely free from the contamination of material attachment.” – Anonymous
- “Stand in the reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non-attachment.” – Swami Vivekananda
- “It is a sign of great character and strength to be able to lose your attachment to anyone or anything that isn’t good for.” – Anonymous
- “Let go of expectations. Let go of your attachment to outcomes.” – Anonymous
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