Quotes About Attachment

Iubirea ta este numai a ta. ÎÈ›i aparÈ›ine. Chiar dac? ea o refuz?, nu poate schimba nimic. Doar c? nu profit?. Momo, ceea ce oferi r?mâne la tine mereu; ceea ce p?strezi este pierdut pentru totdeauna.

That day, she became categorically certain of two things: that he annoyed her, profoundly, and, if she could, she would never leave him.

Gdy rozstajemy siÄ™ z osobami, które bardzo polubiliÅ›my, lgnie do nich jakaÅ› sekretna melancholia.

If I am what I have and if what I have is lost, who then am I? Nobody but a defeated, deflated, pathetic testimony to a wrong way of living.

To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness.

The frightened individual seeks for somebody or something to tie his self to; he cannot bear to be his own individual self any longer, and he tries frantically to get rid of it and to feel security again by the elimination of this burden: the self.

People are afraid to concentrate because they are afraid of losing themselves if they are too absorbed in another person, in an idea, in an event. The less strong their self, the greater the fear of losing themselves in the act of concentration on the non-self.

If a person does not emerge from incestuous attachment to mother, clan, nation, if he retains the childish dependence on a punishing and rewarding father, or any other authority, he cannot develop a more mature love for God; then his religion is that of the earlier phase of religion, in which God was experienced as an all-protective mother or a punishing rewarding father. In

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

Biographers are notorious for falling in love with their subjects. It is the literary equivalent of the Stockholm Syndrome,

Love is like a flower when you pick it, it dies and if you hold on too tight it stops being beautiful.

Loving you is like gravity or the daily sunrise. It is a mystery that I know I will be content to explore for the rest of my life.

I happen to be really a romantic.

People have the wrong idea about cemeteries. They're built for the living, not the dead. If ghosts do exist, I think they are much more likely to attach themselves to people than places.

Grudges are like superstitions. You know they don't make sense, but you cling to them, anyway." We

I don't know if I've owned a piece of technology that I hated - I don't think I would have owned it then.

One of the cruelest things about a wrong love is that it delights in tangles and hidden ways; that it teaches and practices deceit from its first inception; that its earliest efforts are toward destroying all older and more sacred attachments.

Someone other than I might have used the word "roots". It is not part of my vocabulary. I don't like the word, and I like even less the image it conveys. Roots burrow into the ground, twist in the mud, and thrive in darkness; they hold trees in captivity from their inception and nourish them at the price of blackmail: "Free yourself and you'll die

Nous les aimons, ils meurent. Nous avons beau essayé de les retenir, ils nous glissent entre les doigts, ils s'en vont, ils meurent.

Il y a des bras de femmes qui sont des lieux d'exil, et d'autres qui sont la terre natale

If the Persians live in the past it is because the past is their homeland and the present is a foreign country where nothing belongs to them.

Some women's arms are placed of exile; others are a native land.

home is always located in the past. It is not enough for me to say, 'Arlington.' Also, it is a noun used strictly in the singular. The word 'homes' is antithetical to the idea of home.

I had gotten used to the idea that people lived and you loved them, or didn't, and then they died and you were bound to miss them, often even if you didn't love them.