Quotes About Attachment

This is my child, this is my wealth: such thoughts are the preoccupations of fools. If we are unable to own even ourselves, why make such claims?

People get stuck a lot because they're afraid to act; in the worst case,...we get so attached to some end result that we can't function. We need help just to move on, only life doesn't wait.

We lose many things simply out of our fear of losing them.

Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.

We die as we lived. Whatever was most important in life, will consume us at death. Whatever attachments we had will become evident then.

Stay because you want to be here. Stay because we would miss you. And stay because you can belong in more than one place, and one of your places is with us.

All my life is in Spain. I will stay.

If you have to have it, it's ego. If you have to not have it, it's ego. Hold life lightly and it will deliver what you need and release what you don't.

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

I've never had a yard sale, ever, in my life. I don't know if I ever thought about stuff I would get rid of.

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

Someone who was a part of my life. Probably the only one that really mattered.

Detachment does not mean non-involvement. You can be deeply involved but not entangled.

The foundation for our self-image is grounded in the first three years of life. It comes from our major caretaker's mirroring.

When you cling, life is destroyed; when you hold on to anything, you cease to live.

You have to be emotionally attached to what you are doing.

There's nothing wrong with wanting to be with someone." "There is when your only reason is the being, not the someone.

He could no longer separate sex and love. Not now that he'd known--and destroyed--love. Since he couldn't seem to fall out of love with Gordon, he was stuck not liking sex with anyone else.

We remain because this our home. We both have lost land here. Should we leave it all to them? I will not.

One hand, five homes. A lifetime in a fist.

I realized that although I have adopted a new country, I cannot forget China. I wonder about Chna's present, and I worry about her future. I have realized that despite all my suffereing, I cannot stop loving the country where I was born and raised.

For many of us, once we have made a decision, then we are attached to that decision forever. I have found that often the last thing a really dominating left hemisphere wants is to share its limited cranial space with an open-minded right counterpart!

I never crush a relationship dead, I once boasted. Meaning: I always leave something in case I want to pick it up later.)

Dependence begets subservience and venality," he wrote. There was something romantic, too, in Jefferson's attachment to farming: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God." Influenced by