Quotes about Attachment
In love of home, the love of country has its rise.
— Charles Dickens
Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.
— John of the Cross
If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, its yours forever. If it dosent, then it was never meant to be.
— Anonymous
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
— John Donne
Those have most power to hurt us, that we love
— Paulo Coelho
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
— GK Chesterton
That to which your heart clings and entrusts itself is, I say, really your God.
— Nancy Pearcey
Clearly I did not inherit whatever gene it is that makes it so that when you linger in a place you start to put down roots.
— Olga Tokarczuk
And if I should live to beThe last leaf upon the treeIn the spring,Let them smile, as I do now,At the old forsaken boughWhere I cling.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
— Oscar Wilde
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
Our Lord Himself, not being detached from things externally. Our Lord was amazingly in and out among ordinary things; His detachment was on the inside towards God. External detachment is often an indication of a secret vital attachment to the things we keep away from externally.
— Oswald Chambers