Quotes About Attachment

I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with.

Oh yeah, pain. I think it's the same when we lose someone we love. It never stops hurting. But maybe it shouldn't. That pain, after all, is a souvenir of love.

It scared me to need anyone so much. if our souls became inextricably tangled, would mine still be mine? Did I care?

He tells me that you would have actually accomplished your purpose, had not our brethren with affectionate care held you back. I thank you all the same and regard it as a kindness shown. For in the case of friends one must accept the will for the deed. Enemies often give us the latter, but only sincere attachment can bring us the former.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

does no good to nail an unattached branch to the vine; there is no life-giving connection. But those branches that are an integral part of the vine share in the life of the vine.

I get very nervous when I have to take my wedding ring off.

Maybe the reason you can never go home again is that, once you're back, you can never leave...

Nie by? to przecie? jedyny cz?owiek, którego kocha?em. Ale by? ostatnim, i to go czyni dla mnie po dzi? dzie? jedynym.

You aren't having something taken from you. Trust me, I know that feeling and this is not it. You are surrendering something. You fear it, so you'll just let it go. Throw it away like it means nothing when it's obvious it means everything.

We tire differently if we love or love not.

The most important thing in a child's development is emotional stability.

If you can't stop thinking about someone's update, that's called "status cling."

If you can't stop thinking about someone's update, that's called "status cling.

When I love you, I want you to stick around.

but there is a difference between loving someone and having the ability to feel that love.

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

For despite what some people say, love is not only a sweet falling bound to come and quickly go away.

Wer bin ich, wenn ich bin, was ich habe und dann verliere, was ich habe?

Indeed, to one for whom having is the main form of relatedness to the world, ideas that cannot easily be pinned down (or penned down) are frightening–like everything else that grows and changes, and thus is not controllable.

L'amore infantile segue il principio: amo perché sono amato. L'amore maturo segue il principio: sono amato perché amo. L'amore immaturo dice: ti amo perché ho bisogno di te. L'amore maturo dice: ho bisogno di te perché ti amo.

Cuanto más nos liberemos del afán de poseer en todas sus formas, en especial de nuestro egocentrismo, menos poderoso será el miedo a la muerte, ya que no tendremos nada que perder.

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

Freedom in the sense of being unfettered, free from the craving for holding onto things and one's ego, is the condition for love and for productive being. Our human aim, according to Eckhart, is to get rid of the fetters of egoboundness, egocentricity, that is to say the having mode of existence, in order to arrive at full being.