Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms...
(221)
The good renounce everything.
The pure don't babble about sensual desires.
Whether touched by pleasure or pain, the wise show no change of temper.
(83)
But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water off a lotus.
(336)
The wise say that it is not an iron, wooden or fiber fetter which is a strong one, but the besotted hankering after trinkets, children and wives, that, say the wise, is the strong fetter.
It drags one down, and loose as it feels, it is hard to break.
Breaking this fetter, people renounce the world, free from longing and abandoning sensuality.
(345, 346)
Those ... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like shining lights, having reached final liberation in the world.
(89)
Cut down the forest, not just a tree.
Out of the forest of desire springs danger.
By cutting down both the forest of desire and the brushwood of longing,
be rid of the forest (pun on the word "nirvana"), bhikkhus.
(283)
Dispassion is the best of mental states ...
(273)
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