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Attachment (Buddhism)12 quotes
Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods. — Socrates · 240The things you own end up owning you. — Tyler Durden · 1999Even to be attached to the idea of enlightenment is to go astray. — Jianzhi Sengcan · 606It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. — Seneca · 65The Noble Truth of Suffering is this: Birth is suffering, aging is suffering; sickness is suffering; death is suffering; sorror and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering; association with the unpleasant is suffering; dissociation from the pleasant is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering-in brief, the five aggregates of attachment are suffering. — Pali Tipitaka · 100 BCThe person who is searching for his own happiness should pull out the dart that he has stuck in himself, the arrow-head of grieving, of desiring, of despair. — Pali Tipitaka · 100 BCAll 12 quotes →Materialism4 quotes
Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods. — Socrates · 240It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. — Seneca · 65It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more. — Aristotle · 350 BCA man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854Desire3 quotes
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. — Seneca · 65It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more. — Aristotle · 350 BCWhen in recollection he withdraws all his senses from the attractions of the pleasures of sense, even as a tortoise withdraws all his limbs, then his is a serene wisdom. — Bhagavad Gita · 200 BCAcquisitiveness2 quotes
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. — Seneca · 65It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more. — Aristotle · 350 BCSeeking2 quotes
Even to be attached to the idea of enlightenment is to go astray. — Jianzhi Sengcan · 606The person who is searching for his own happiness should pull out the dart that he has stuck in himself, the arrow-head of grieving, of desiring, of despair. — Pali Tipitaka · 100 BCConsumerism1 quote
The things you own end up owning you. — Tyler Durden · 1999Enlightenment1 quote
Even to be attached to the idea of enlightenment is to go astray. — Jianzhi Sengcan · 606God's love1 quote
Only by love can men see me, and know me and come unto me. He who works for me, who loves me, whose End Supreme I am, free from attachment to all things, and with love for all creation, he in truth comes unto me. — Bhagavad Gita · 200 BCLetting go1 quote
Those who are contented and at ease when the occasion comes and live in accord with the course of Nature cannot be affected by sorrow or joy. This is what the ancients called release from bondage. Those who cannot release themselves are so because they are bound by material things. — Zhuang Zhou · 221 BCLove1 quote
Only by love can men see me, and know me and come unto me. He who works for me, who loves me, whose End Supreme I am, free from attachment to all things, and with love for all creation, he in truth comes unto me. — Bhagavad Gita · 200 BCPersonal liberation1 quote
The person who is searching for his own happiness should pull out the dart that he has stuck in himself, the arrow-head of grieving, of desiring, of despair. — Pali Tipitaka · 100 BCPossessions1 quote
Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods. — Socrates · 240Redistribution of resources1 quote
It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more. — Aristotle · 350 BCSeeking enlightenment1 quote
Even to be attached to the idea of enlightenment is to go astray. — Jianzhi Sengcan · 606Simple living1 quote
Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods. — Socrates · 240Suffering1 quote
The Noble Truth of Suffering is this: Birth is suffering, aging is suffering; sickness is suffering; death is suffering; sorror and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering; association with the unpleasant is suffering; dissociation from the pleasant is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering-in brief, the five aggregates of attachment are suffering. — Pali Tipitaka · 100 BCTemptation1 quote
When in recollection he withdraws all his senses from the attractions of the pleasures of sense, even as a tortoise withdraws all his limbs, then his is a serene wisdom. — Bhagavad Gita · 200 BCThe human condition1 quote
The Noble Truth of Suffering is this: Birth is suffering, aging is suffering; sickness is suffering; death is suffering; sorror and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering; association with the unpleasant is suffering; dissociation from the pleasant is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering-in brief, the five aggregates of attachment are suffering. — Pali Tipitaka · 100 BCWealth1 quote
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854Work1 quote
Set thy heart upon thy work but never upon its reward. Work not for a reward: but never cease to do thy work. Do thy work in the peace of Yoga and, free from selfish desires, be not moved in success or in failure. — Bhagavad Gita · 200 BC