Quotes about Attachment
The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
- Henry Ward Beecher
If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it... it possesses you.
- Frank Sinatra
At home, we don't listen to our music-we listen to other people's music. It keeps you attached to the show business world.
- Celine Dion
Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.
- James Allen
Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
- Abraham Lincoln
I am in love and out of it I will not go.
- CS Lewis
As long as we think we own anything, that thing owns us. As soon as we know that we own nothing, then God owns us.
- AW Tozer
Set not your heart upon the world, since God hath not made it your portion.
- Samuel Rutherford
Whatever is your greatest joy and treasure, that is your god.
- Charles Spurgeon
Whatever man loves, that is his god. For he carries it in his heart; he goes about with it night and day; he sleeps and wakes with it, be it what it may - wealth or self, pleasure or renown.
- Martin Luther
If you're following God and haven't lost much of what you've been holding on to - follow a little closer.
- Bob Goff
Many, however, gives themselves to God, but preserve still in their hearts some attachment to creatures, which prevents them from belonging entirely to God.
- Alphonsus Liguori