Quotes about Attachment

It is hard to hate what one has loved, and a half-extinguished fire is soon relit.

It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves.

The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.

My weight is my love.

There may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem.

Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet salvation. Say of nothing: It is mine. Say only: It is with me.

Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar.

But why all these questions?Because I'm in love and I'm afraid of suffering.Don't be afraid, the only way to avoid that suffering would be to refuse to love.

We may have suffered a lot because of our attachment to those things, but we don't have the courage to release them; it doesn't feel safe to do so. But it may be that we continue to suffer because of our attachment to those things. It may be a person, a material object, or a position in society, anything. We think that without that person or thing we will not be safe, and that is why we're caught by it.

As a culture, we place great stock in external appearance. Our attachment to physical beauty is something that we need to let go of, yet it seems that the majority of people are racing toward it.

All that is dear to me and everyone I love are of the nature to change. There is no way to escape being separated from them. I cannot keep anything. I come here empty-handed, and I go empty-handed.

True love doesn't contain suffering or attachment. It brings well-being to ourselves and others.