Quotes about Attachment
But remember, continuing a wrong relationship only increases the pain when it finally does end.
- Joshua Harris
To good and true love fear is forever affixed.
- Francois Rabelais
Can people tell from the emphasis we attach to material things whether we have set our affection on things above, or whether we are primarily attached to this world?
- Billy Graham
Do not make the mistake of attaching yourself to a particular minister rather than to the body of the church itself. The ministry may change—it is healthy and stimulating that it should—but the tenets of the church remain the same
- Billy Graham
And therefore perchance I feared to die, lest he whom I had much loved should die wholly.
- St. Augustine
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