Quotes about Attachment

Prosperity in the form of wealth works exactly the same as everything else. You will see it coming into your life when you are unattached to needing it.

When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too--leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back.

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.

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.

Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.

The Epistle to the Galatians is my epistle. To it I am as it were in wedlock. It is my Katherine.

jealousy is the grave of affection

If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were

Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other; it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other; it is concluded with the impossibility of separation.