Quotes About Attachment

Fans are the only ones who really care. There are no free-agent fans.

finalmente mi madre volvió a mudarse con ella: en efecto, cuando cumplió dieciocho años intentó volver a casa de su madre. Quien la acogió. Quien "volvió a aceptarla", según decía. Mi madre le perdonó todo. Estaba feliz de haber vuelto a formar parte de la familia. Pero nunca olvidó el desapego que su madre había demostrado hacia ella y que la angustia causada por la guerra no alcanzaba a justificar.

There can be no real attachment to the given creation, no genuine responsibility in the world, unless we recognize the breach which already separates us from it.

Mindfulness should guide all your actions and your spiritual endeavors. Whatever you do, always apply three essential points: undertake the action with the intention of doing so for the good of all beings; execute it with perfect concentration, free of attachment to concepts of subject, object, and action; and, finally, dedicate the merit you have created to the enlightenment of all beings.

What a waste of time it is to take so much care of this body, feeding it the most succulent dishes, dressing it in the most fashionable clothes, and trying to make it look younger than it really is. The body has no other destination than the cemetery where it will be burned, buried, or fed to the birds.

si nous ne parvenons pas à nous dégager des besoins les plus futiles, nous en voudrons toujours plus que nécessaire

It is foolish to hold tightly to material possessions. We do not own them, but they can own us.

The only real parting is when there is no love left to part from

Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.

Nu hield ik erg van groot en zacht, dat doe ik nog. Ik ging trouw naar bed met een vossebont dat vreselijk verhaarde en kleine glimmende kraaloogjes had. Het is tot nu toe mijn grootste liefde gebleven, samen met de geelgerande watertor, een half jaar gehouden in een zinken emmer, toen ging hij dood; en wellicht die poedel gekocht bij de dames Heuvel van de speelgoedwinkel, zelf uitgezocht, ja, ik had goede ouders.

Robin told only a little of her life, but she kept repeating in one way or another her wish for a home, as if she were afraid she would be lost again, as if she were aware, without conscious knowledge, that she belonged to Nora, and that if Nora did not make it permanent by her own strength, she would forget.

No man really wants his freedom. He gets a habit as quickly as possible--it is a form of immortality

No man really wants his freedom. He gets a habit as quickly as possible - its a form of immortality.

She speaks of people taking away her 'faith' in them, as if faith were a transportable object—all her life she has been subject to the feeling of 'removal.

For a lover who dies, no matter how forgotten, will take somewhat of you to the grave.

It makes you think the best way to hold on to something is to pay no attention to it. The things you love too much must perish. You have to treat everything with irony, especially the things you hold dear. There's more of a chance then that they'll survive.

?ovek ostavlja sebe svuda gde je voleo. Onoga koga volimo, uvek možemo na?i tu gde smo zajedno bili.

Život ionako nikada nije bio moja jabuka. I ništa moje ne?e ostati ni na jednoj obali.

The family — that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

A flower falls, even though we love it and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

I think of country radio like a great lover: you were nice to me, you gave me a lot of cool stuff, and then you dumped my ass for another woman.

What other half-buried things did I know about my own grief and wife that, if asked about directly, I could surrender? That for several years I kept Clare's mobile phone active because I didn't want anyone else to take her phone number. That during the time before I released the number, I sent her texts from work, only to come home and read them on the phone that was always charging by her side of the bed.

It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.

I complained to a friend that although I had completed six years in therapy, my mother still wouldn't let me go. He replied, "She's not supposed to let you go. Your father is supposed to come and get you.