Quotes about Attachment
Clearly we must not be attached to anything, no matter how innocent, because it will slip from our grasp when least expected; nothing but the eternal can content us.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves.
— Pema Chodron
The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.
— Pema Chodron
All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are.
— Pema Chodron
Anxiety is loves greatest killer.
— Anais Nin
God gives us love. Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
The hard part of loving is that one has to learn so often to let go of those we love, so they can do things, so they can grow, so they can return to us with an even richer, deeper love.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.
— Anais Nin
She better liked to see him free and happy, even than to have him near her, because she loved him better than herself.
— Charles Dickens
The mind loves whatever repeats a pleasurable experience from the past. "I love this" basically means "I love repeating what felt so good before".
— Deepak Chopra
I have to go," he said at last, getting to his feet. "I shouldn't even be here, but I cannot keep my self away from you. I worry about you in every waking moment. I love you, Luce. So much it hurts.
— Lauren Kate
I love you too much to say goodbye.
— Lauren Kate