70 Attachment Quotes

Attachment is your biggest strength and your biggest weakness. Though it gives you the power to love someone or something more than yourself, it becomes difficult to live when you lose something or someone you are attached to. Here are best attachment quotes to enlighten you.

Attachment Quotes

1. “To experience true happiness, two things are quint essential: zero expectations and let go attitude.” – Invajy

2. “Attachment is the source of all suffering.” – Buddha

3. “A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.” – Ram Dass
4. “Accept what comes and let go when it’s time.” – Invajy
5. “You only lose what you cling to.” – Buddha
6. “According to Buddhist psychology, most of our troubles stem from attachment to things that we mistakenly see as permanent.” – Dalai Lama
7. “I had an attachment disorder.” – Dave Pelzer
8. “I have a strong attachment to Harvard.” – Eric Maskin
9. “A large body of literature suggests that wellbeing is intimately linked to attachment – not only to other people but also to the natural world.” – George Monbiot
10. “If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not to love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.” – Erich Fromm
11. “Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.” – Debbie Ford
12. “Fire itself is very beautiful, and there’s an attachment to fire that firefighters have.” – Matthew Desmond
13. “Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.” – Simone Weil
14. “I grew up with an Apple 2E – I had a deep, emotional attachment to that machine – and I loved doodling.” – Gene Luen Yang
15. “Going to a gym or playing a sport should not be mechanical. There should be an emotional attachment to it.” – Naga Chaitanya
16. “Love is not a sentimental attachment to a human being; love is a mode of conduct that comes from the heart.” – Ma Jaya
17. “The wise do not consider the chains and shackles of jail to be the toughest restraints. The chains of attachment are the strongest of the ties that bind.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
18. “Attachment is the state of ignorance or forgetfulness, and thus clinging to a memory of enjoyment.” – Goswami Kriyananda
19. “Practice of the art of peace enables you to rise above praise or blame, and it frees you from attachment to this and that.” – Morihei Ueshiba
20. “If you can get rid of your attachment to a single thing, you are on the way to liberation.” – Swami Vivekananda
21. “My home nurtured in me an early attachment to books and other things of the intellect, to music, and to the out of doors.” – Herbert A. Simon
22. “My attachment to my wedding ring is a powerful symbol of the infinite love that I have for my wife and children.” – Gad Saad
23. “A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.” – George Washington
24. “A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.” – Christopher Lasch
25. “Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality.” – Osho
26. “Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” – Michael J. Fox
27. “He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.” – Chanakya
28. “While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.” – Bill Murray
29. “There are no accidental meetings between souls.” – Anonymous
30. “We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.” – George Eliot
31. “Love without attachment is light.” – Norman O. Brown
32. “Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.” – Mayim Bialik
33. “Most relational trauma occurs in childhood and is related to attachment to parents or caregivers.” – Invajy
34. “We have attachments. But even without a family, I can promise you that, that yearning to be with other people is powerful. That emotion is the foundation, of what makes us human.” – Dr. Mann, Interstellar
35. “Be aware of the ephemeral nature of material things. Lose your attachment to them.” – Shui-ch’ing Tzu
36. “Attachment parenting is this theory that if you wear your baby around and you sleep with your baby, the baby will be more attached to you.” – Sarah Ruhl
37. “The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.” – William Bartram
38. “All duality is a mind creation, all duality is created by the clinging and attached mind. When there is no attachment there is no duality.” – Osho
39. “Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.” – Hanna Rosin
40. “I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future, and my attachment to it. I can’t imagine what kind of writer I’d be if I didn’t have my kids.” – Barbara Kingsolver
41. “Being attached is what prevents us from seeing, it is what clouds this miraculous awareness.” – Geoffrey Shugen Arnold
42. “My son was five months old, and I built a makeshift studio in my living room so that I could do the attachment parenting approach and write the record at the same time. That was fortuitous, that we could build that in the house.” – Alanis Morissette
43. “Parenting is not about perfection, but about the quality of connection.” – Invajy
44. “Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one’s true being.” – Lao Tzu
45. “Instead of just saying, “I love my baby and I pick him up because he’s adorable and it’s so nice to cuddle with him,” we practice attachment parenting. We let our children play outside and have age-appropriate freedoms and are labeled free-range parents.” – Alison Gopnik
46. “Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.” – Thomas Merton
47. “Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.” – Nhat Hanh
48. “One who remains unattached under all conditions, and is neither delighted by good fortune nor dejected by tribulation, he is a sage with perfect knowledge.” – Bhagavad Gita
49. “Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma.” – Mahavira
50. “Therefore, giving up attachment, perform actions as a matter of duty because by working without being attached to the fruits, one attains the Supreme.” – Bhagavad Gita
51. “Those who are not attached to external sense pleasures realize divine bliss in the self. Being united with God through Yog, they experience unending happiness.” – Bhagavad Gita
52. “For those whose minds are attached to the unmanifest, the path of realization is full of tribulations. Worship of the unmanifest is exceedingly difficult for embodied beings.” – Bhagavad Gita
53. “Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.” – Bodhidharma
54. “Actions do not cling to me because I am not attached to their results. Those who understand this and practice it live in freedom.” – Lord Krishna
55. “Free from attachments to the past and worries about the future, a child expresses him/herself fully.” – Mata Amritanandamayi
56. “Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.” – Virginia Woolf
57. “Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.” – Ramakrishna
58. “I desire many things concerning myself; but I desire nothing so much, as to have a heart filled with love to the Lord. I long for a warm personal attachment to Him.” – George Muller
59. “When you massage someone, the levels of oxytocin go up in the brain, and oxytocin is one of the chemicals that drive attachment.” – Helen Fisher
60. “Great ideas have no attachment to either money or class.” – Ian Schrager
61. “My approach is neither of attachment nor of detachment, but of simple understanding.” – Osho
62. “Conservatism, for me, is the philosophy and the politics of attachment.” – Roger Scruton
63. “Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.” – Lisa Alther
64. “All misery and pain come from attachment.” – Swami Vivekananda
65. “Keep in mind that to avoid loneliness, many people need both a social circle and an intimate attachment. Having just one of two may still leave you feeling lonely.” – Gretchen Rubin
66. “The extra luggage of indiscriminate dreams, desires and attachments will make your life’s journey miserable.” – Mata Amritanandamayi
67. “The emotional attachment you get with a client or the music fan allows you access to do a lot of things.” – Russell Simmons
68. “A man could be in a throne and have no attachment at all; another one could be in rags and have many attachments.” – Swami Vivekananda
69. “Attachment comes from a perception of lack – all comes from fear.” – Yvette Soler
70. “I’m learning more and more that love plus attachment equals pain.” – Lisa Bonet