Quotes About Attachment

Je comprends ce désir de couvrir de cadeaux un être qu'on aime pour manifester l'appartenance (Proust, La prisonnière). Tout en sachant que cela ne sert pas à vous l'attacher, puisqu'il en est seulement fier (de susciter autant d'amour), que cela renforce son narcissisme, lequel joue contre celui qui donne. Ce dernier n'a pas assez de narcissisme. Enfin, moi je l'aime de tout mon vide.

Je mesure la force de mon attachement à mon goût ou mon dégoût du sperme. Ainsi, violent dégoût avec P., à partir de 87. Et la première fois avec S., mon désir de le recracher dans le lavabo, à Leningrad.

I wish I knew how to quit you.

Many spiritual disciplines, especially those oriented toward ascendance, advise us to give up the self, to surrender all to a master, guru, or a particular concept of God. While it is important to give up attachments to the lower egos, what is really called for is to become one with the divine. There is no we without an I. To become one with the divine is not to abandon the Self (as archetype of wholeness) but to realize that divine consciousness of who that Self really is.

The more we allow one kind of energy, the more the other can come through. Once a commitment is made, it is easier to allow a partner their solitude or freedom. Once we know our freedom is respected, we can more easily make a commitment. Conversely, the more a partner insists on one aspect, the more his lover will yearn for its opposite. Dynamic balance is a dance between attachment and freedom.

Women fall in love on the date, and men fall in love after the date.

'White supremacist' and 'white nationalist' aren't like 'meanypants' - you can't just attach them to people you don't like without any thought to the consequences. The progressive Left has done it to ordinary Americans for decades. The result? President Trump.

Music is a very sensitive thing. We get musically attached to a project and it has the power to affect your mood.

It quite often happens that they attach a name to a project and it doesn't get all the financing it needs.

You'll read things and say, this is a really good project and it's probably going to be a hit, but I can see 20 other people playing that part. You have to have some sense of ownership to do a good job and be married to it for ever.

I like to do projects I feel some connection to.

A lot of the projects I've been involved with have been my babies, and I'm not going to give my baby to anyone else.

I have a very promiscuous relationship with all my objects.

In the same way you pick idly at chips, promising this is literally your last one, you may be in a relationship that you know isn't going anywhere, but you're hungry for love, and it feels less frightening than nothing.

For me it doesn't matter if my song is promoted, or if it comes at the end credits of a film, it's my baby at the end of the day.

Sometimes you get so jaded, you don't have those initial connections and emotions with music, because you are promoting your own.

I'm a proper mummy's boy.

I knew I was going to lose my house in Ireland and all the other properties. It's all gone. But my house was the one material thing that was very important to me.

People form strong attachments to their properties.

Property is a nuisance.

A lot of times when a film is a success, the fans of that film take ownership of it - it becomes their property.

We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposed to rob us of their companionship.

Respect isn't enough. You've got to have a proprietary interest.

We are all protective over the things we love.