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“Letting go of attachments to material possessions, relationships, or past experiences that stifle or no longer serve us can be liberating and allow us to move forward with our lives. When we contain our 'loss aversion,' we learn to bounce back from setbacks and master the qualities for navigating life's challenges. We can
convert the terror of loss aversion into a mindset leading to greater freedom and personal empowerment. (“Paper Boats Forever »)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Our attachments are our temple, what we worship, no? What we give ourselves to, what we invest with faith. . . . Attachments are of great seriousness. Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Let us create an open space without attachments, where we can cultivate personal meaning rather than being trapped by past decisions or emotional investments that no longer serve us or lead to useless suffering. (“Twilight of desireâ€�)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“An attachment grew up. What is an attachment? It is the most difficult of all the human interrelationships to explain, because it is the vaguest, the most impalpable. It has all the good points of love, and none of its drawbacks. No jealousy, no quarrels, no greed to possess, no fear of losing possession, no hatred (which is very much a part of love), no surge of passion and no hangover afterward. It never reaches the heights, and it never reaches the depths.

As a rule it comes on subtly. As theirs did. As a rule the two involved are not even aware of it at first. As they were not. As a rule it only becomes noticeable when it is interrupted in some way, or broken off by circumstances. As theirs was. In other words, its presence only becomes known in its absence. It is only missed after it stops. While it is still going on, little thought is given to it, because little thought needs to be.

It is pleasant to meet, it is pleasant to be together. To put your shopping packages down on a little wire-backed chair at a little table at a sidewalk cafe, and sit down and have a vermouth with someone who has been waiting there for you. And will be waiting there again tomorrow afternoon. Same time, same table, same sidewalk cafe. Or to watch Italian youth going through the gyrations of the latest dance craze in some inexpensive indigenous night-place-while you, who come from the country where the dance originated, only get up to do a sedate fox trot. It is even pleasant to part, because this simply means preparing the way for the next meeting.

One long continuous being-together, even in a love affair, might make the thing wilt. In an attachment it would surely kill the thing off altogether. But to meet, to part, then to meet again in a few days, keeps the thing going, encourages it to flower.

And yet it requires a certain amount of vanity, as love does; a desire to please, to look one's best, to elicit compliments. It inspires a certain amount of flirtation, for the two are of opposite sex. A wink of understanding over the rim of a raised glass, a low-voiced confidential aside about something and the smile of intimacy that answers it, a small impromptu gift - a necktie on the one part because of an accidental spill on the one he was wearing, or of a small bunch of flowers on the other part because of the color of the dress she has on.

So it goes.

And suddenly they part, and suddenly there's a void, and suddenly they discover they have had an attachment.

Rome passed into the past, and became New York.

Now, if they had never come together again, or only after a long time and in different circumstances, then the attachment would have faded and died. But if they suddenly do come together again - while the sharp sting of missing one another is still smarting - then the attachment will revive full force, full strength. But never again as merely an attachment. It has to go on from there, it has to build, to pick up speed. And sometimes it is so glad to be brought back again that it makes the mistake of thinking it is love.

("For The Rest Of Her Life")”
― Cornell Woolrich, Angels of Darkness

“This was how I knew the sleep was having an effect: I was growing less and less attached to life. If I kept going, I thought, I'd disappear completely, then reappear in some new form. This was my hope. This was the dream.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“But it’s not just those early years without my parents that branded me. It’s the life I’ve led in America as a migrant, watching my parents pursue their dream in this country and then having to deal with its carcass, witnessing the crimes against migrants carried out by the U.S. government with my hands bound. As an undocumented person, I felt like a hologram. Nothing felt secure. I never felt safe. I didn’t allow myself to feel joy because I was scared to attach myself to anything I’d have to let go of. Being deportable means you have to be ready to go at any moment, ready to go with nothing but the clothes on your body. I've learned to develop no relationship to anything, not to photos, not to people, not to jewelry or clothing or ticket stubs or stuffed animals from childhood.”
― Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans

“Life is a combo of attachment and detachment.

Love is the most natural thing and you are bound to get attached to persons, places and things. However, while getting attached so, you should know that all these attachments too have an expiry date. It's exactly at that point that the art of detachment helps.

Persons, places and things are meant for specific periods in life after which you should know how to let go and embrace newer things. The world is beautiful and you should have belief in Him.”
― Neelam Saxena Chandra

“Modern society is deeply lonely because we are unwittingly controlled by our attachments and relate to each other as objects of craving or aversion rather than living, changing human beings.”
― John Greer, Seeing, Knowing, Being: A Guide to Sacred Awakenings

“The goal of any spiritual person is to strive towards attaining self-realization by living spontaneously in the present moment of physical reality, free from anxiety and distress, unencumbered by frivolous affections, and liberated from specious attachments.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“It's like you're the house I never had, the security of walls I never had. I always had to keep my own bricks so tight because there was nothing else to protect me, until I met you.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Before the Footprints Fade

“Estamos atados por tantas ligaduras en que hemos vivido que nos parece que al alejarnos será también más fácil alejarnos de nosotros mismos.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Alexis ou le Traité du vain combat / Le Coup de grâce

“She made him sad, but he also longed for this sorrow to arrive in his room as often as possible in that ascetic uniform of long top and jeans, the cassock of her platonic detachment.”
― Manu Joseph, Serious Men

“No human ever emotionally hurt another
expectations, perceptions, attachments and desires did.”
― Drishti Bablani

“Greed, ego, anger, lust and attachment are siblings. They come together, they leave together.”
― Dr. Ashok Anand

“Love has the power to make a dead heart beat again.”
― Wrushank Sorte

“I began to realize it in Spain--that I wasn't free, that I couldn't be free until I was attached--no, committed--to someone."

"To someone? Not something?"

She was silent. "I don't know," she said at last, "but I'm beginning to think that women get attached to something really by default. They'd give it up, if they could, anytime, for a man. Of course they can't admit this, and neither can most of them let go of what they have. But I think it kills them--perhaps I only mean," she added, after a moment, "that it would have killed me.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“Being a Jedi means allowing things—even things we love—to pass out of our lives.”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith

“There comes a time when attachments no longer clasp you; the drift begins slowly and you can comprehend that all relationships are hollow, phoney and transient.”
― Balroop Singh

“In the freedom from one thing, one becomes enslaved by another.”
― Juditta Salem

“All your stress, pain, suffering, misery is due to your attachment with it. If you don’t attach with the things, that doesn’t serve you, either in your internal or external life, slowly those things lose grip on you, and you release yourself from it forever.”
― Roshan Sharma

“Those who have become vitarag (free from all worldly attachments), will have no intent of ownership (maliki bhav).”
― Dada Bhagwan

“Surrender attachments without judgment. This means seeing life through the gently but powerfully unattached Soul rather than the hungrily attached and disempowered ego.”
― Kris Franken, The Call of Intuition

“The life we lead isn't suitable for attachments. You know this.”
― C.E. Olson, Realms Of Stone And Gold

“What binds man to the re-incarnational wheel is Karma. Karma accumulates in places where attachments and personal ego exist and festers.”
― Heidi M. Morrison (Heidi Morrison Teachings)

“Attachments to the self-and/or others, give birth to Karma.”
― Heidi M. Morrison (Heidi Morrison Teachings)

“I told myself that I was used to impermanence, that attachments would get me exactly nowhere, but then some people stay with you in ways you don't expect and you try to shake them out, shake them away, but your memory won't let you.”
― Laura van den Berg, Find Me

“Vehicles need maintenance, not friendships.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“…but place is unimportant to a traveler, if that’s what I can be called. If it were important, people couldn’t bear to move on.”
― Lynne Tillman, Motion Sickness

“So, what if, instead of thinking about solving your whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

“Old people are attached to many irrelevant things because the relevant things don't value them.”
― Amit Abraham