Attachment is a crucial phase of every human long-term relationship and socialization process.
Attachment to the wrong person or substance will hurt a person in the long run. Therefore, attachment quotes give insights into the peculiarities of forming a bond.
There are different forms of attachment, each with unique requirements. Emotional attachment is the state of intimate affection or being attached to someone. Attachments developed by young adults have long-term (usually lifetime) effects on children. Attachment quotes explain all the basic tenets of human bonding. Therefore, attachment quotes are indispensable words of wisdom for human relationships.
Emotional Attachment Quotes
These attachment quotes come in handy when analyzing emotional affiliations.
"Get attached to your inner peace, and there will be no other attachment in your life.” – Nitin Namdeo
"Letting go of our attachment to how our life should unfold is a wonderful gift to give ourselves." – Karen Casey
"Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone." – Lisa Alther
"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition." - 'Giovanni's Room', James Baldwin
"Try not to confuse attachment with love." - Yasmin Mogahed
"If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve." - 'Tao Te Ching', Lao Tzu
"How to recognize emotional attachment; if your happiness rests upon what you expect from something or someone." - Unknown*
"Love without attachment is the purest love..." - Yasmin Mogahed
"Anything you can’t control is teaching you how to let go." - Jackson Kiddard
"Practice experiencing everything in a state of non-expectancy and non-attachment." - Steve Leasock
"Cut the cords of attachment. Expand the circle of love." - Shri Radhe Maa
"Attachment is the state of ignorance or forgetfulness" - Goswami Kriyananda
"Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies." - Rajneesh
"Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things." - 'Parerga and Paralipomena', Arthur Schopenhauer
"Attachment to people deadlocks our growth." – Karen Casey
"Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached." - Simone Weil
"Detachment is not about refusing to feel or not caring or turning away from those you love. Detachment is profoundly honest, grounded firmly in the truth of what is.” – Sharon Salzberg
"…attachment does not prevent a person from leaving." – Karen Casey
"It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it." - 'Winnie-the-Pooh', A.A. Milne
"Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life." - Lionel Shriver
"You live life better when you are free from the fear of losing." – Nitin Namdeo
"Home's where you go when you run out of homes." - 'The Honourable Schoolboy', John le Carré
"...love is freedom while attachment is a cage." – Nitin Namdeo
"Attachment to others and what they might be thinking, coupled with analyzing how our behavior might change that thinking, is a great definition for codependence. Many suffer from it." – Karen Casey
"Detachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be." - Stephen Levine
"Let go and be free." - ATGW
"Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope." - Shannon L. Alder
"Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You’re able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment." – Osho
"Detachment is not giving up the things in this world but accepting the fact and to be continuously aware that nothing is permanent." Aditya Ajmera
"Non-attachment is the process of creating without being attached to the results." Beth Banning
Buddha Quotes About Attachment
Buddha quotes are revered for their electric and impactful nature. These Buddha quotes provide an accurate reality assessment of being attached.
"Attachment is the source of all suffering" - Buddha
"Give yourself the gift of detaching from your worries and trust that everything is happening perfectly." - Unknown*
"Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment, know the sweet joy of living in the way." - Buddha
"...most of our troubles stem from attachment to things that we mistakenly see as permanent." - Dalai Lama
"See them, floundering in their sense of mine, like fish in the puddles of a dried-up stream — and, seeing this, live with no mine, not forming attachment to experiences." - Buddha
"To be free from suffering, free yourself from attachments." - Buddha
"Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed that is." - Yoda
"Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others." - Buddha
"Stand in the reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non-attachment." - Swami Vivekananda
"Attachment constrains our vision so that we are not able to see things from a wider perspective." – Dalai Lama
"You only lose what you cling to." - Buddha
"Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose." - Yoda
"Those who cling to perceptions and views wander the world offending people." - Buddha
Bhagavad Gita Attachment Quotes
These attachment quotes are inspired by the most revered Hindu texts, the Bhagavad Gita, and provide helpful attachment insights.
"One develops attachment to sense objects by thinking about sense objects." - Bhagavad Gita
"Be completely free from the contamination of material attachment." - Bhagavad Gita
"Desire for sense objects comes from attachment to sense objects, and anger comes from unfulfilled desires." - Bhagavad Gita
"Always perform your duty efficiently and without attachment to the results." - Bhagavad Gita
"Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace." - Bhagavad Gita
Sad Quotes About Attachment
Attachment quotes do not have to be portrayed positively at all times. They sometimes come in frank and realistic words, such as letting go to have a meaningful life.
"Misery is nothing but the shadow of attachment. And hence all stagnancy. The attached person becomes a stagnant pool – sooner or later he will stink." - Osho
"Attachment is another name of disappointment and pain." - Vishal
"One should discard attachment to be happy." - Chanakya
"It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering." - Byron Katie
"It is attachment that destroys all love." - Rajneesh
"Excessive attachment to anything in life makes you mentally enslaved." – Nitin Namdeo
"I experience the struggle between love and non-attachment. It is hard to bear." - 'The Oldest Boy: A Play in Three Ceremonies', Sarah Ruhl.
"A lot of people don’t have a genuine connection with their partner, they just have an unhealthy attachment." – Stephan Labossiere
"Our attachments to others are not healthy, for any of us. And others aren’t ever present for that reason." – Karen Casey
"Attachment is the strongest block to realization." - Neem Karoli Baba
"Attachment to the outcome destroys your creativity." – Nitin Namdeo
"The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over." - Steve Maraboli
"We feel more comfortable in the throes of the chaos of someone else’s life. And until we have experienced freedom from this kind of attachment, and the joy it offers, we will continue to search for the person who will allow us to choose his or her life to live, rather than live our own." – Karen Casey
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