Quotes About Attachment

To be possessed is an admirable reason for possessing.

It was awful to have no one belonging to you, and to belong to no one.

It's difficult to get attached to preferences like lesbian or straight when you don't know the gender of the person you are flirting with.

What would it be like to love without attachment, to open our hearts to someone with no expectations, loving just for the joy of it, regardless of what we might get back?

We can take some thoughts from Buddhism: What would it be like to love without attachment, to open our hearts to someone with no expectations, loving just for the joy of it, regardless of what we might get back?

I had never felt the kind of love for anything, or anybody like I felt for this piece of earth, right then. And for what we were about to add to it.

You don't understand,' I said. 'I need to be with her. With every fibre of my being I ache for her. I'm in love.' 'I do understand,' said Zoran. 'It was same for me with Mrs Zoran when I first meet her. But the feeling goes away after few hours.

The fact that these toddlers became so distressed, and then depressed and detached, as the separation lengthened, suggested that a child's bond with the mother had particular qualities that made their relationship unlike any other.

The more irreplaceable and important a person was in one's life, he supposed, the more vulnerable and afraid one became of losing them.

The most important thing to know is that I do love you.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

In giving a gift, you are attached to it. In receiving a gift, the blessing that comes to the giver is your chief delight.

The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.

We live in a generation of not being in love, and not being together. But we sure make it feel like were together because were scared to see each other with somebody else.

My ex send late night text cause she dont know to let go.

Materialism—an attachment to physical goods beyond their practical value—was a trap; a chain to ensnare the foolish with their own greed.

The City means everything to me while for it I am only its citizen!

Trees don't ask why they don't move from place to place, nor do they ask any other meaningless questions. But their branches tremble when the birds leave them,

Dreams are powerful. It is possible to so attach our emotions to them that a dream can become a taskmaster we serve, rather than an assignment or goal we steward.

The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.

I've never wanted to leave. I'm here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well.

This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life's long race, Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e'en in age, and at our latest day.

But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life - no true home - nothing to be dearer to me than myself?

The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.