Quotes About Attachment

Fitz, home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there anymore.

Sometimes it seems worrying is something I feel like I have to do, that maybe worrying about them actually keeps them alive and real

Amber?" he said pleadingly. His voice went high on her name and broke, as it sometimes did when he was afraid. "Are you taking my beads away?

When a man's pride is all he has left, he holds it closely.

It was odd to realize I had an emotional attachment to my own flesh. My deep desire to keep it functioning well surpassed simple avoidance of pain. A man takes pride in his body. When it is damaged, it is more than a physical thing.

They were all gone now, broken or taken by people who had no idea what such items represented. Let them go. She held the past in her heart, with no need of physical items to tie it down.

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One aspect of soulful healing that is most challenging and therefore most fruitful is the need to release a part of your story that may be lying underneath and behind the illness. Healing requires a willingness to rewrite the story you tell yourself about what has happened in your life and why it's happened. There is often an emotional attachment to the pattern that doesn't allow for easy change.

It is the fundamental unfairness of parenthood that if we do our jobs well, the deepest bond we are given will walk out the door with a wave over the shoulder.

When we call a place by its name, it is transformed from wilderness to homeland.

I think you cannot own a thing and love it at the same time.

tricks us into believing that belongings will fill our hunger, when it is belonging that we crave

The love you needed was the kind best avoided.

At some point he realized that he knew how she felt—once you know how much you love someone, no one else would do.

originally walked away from material possessions because I felt the weight of them dragging me down. Now I don't own anything I can't afford to lose because I don't want to die one day trying to protect something I never should've cared about in the first place.

If you hoard other people's tragedies, does that make your own easier to bear?

What is it about returning to my mother's house that immediately turns me into a five-year-old?

That guilt is a jealous lover.

Im sticking to You like Glue! ~ Slade

Here is how a mother's love is different: You may fall out of love with a man. But you will never fall out of love with your child. Even after he is gone.

The sea is better than a mother. You can love your mother, and she still might leave you. You can love or hate the sea, but it will always be there. Forever. The sea has been the center of her life. It has nurtured her and stolen from her, but it has never left.

You can love your mother, and she still might leave you. You can love or hate the sea, but it will always be there. Forever. The sea has been the center of her life. It has nurtured her and stolen from her, but it has never left.

For what other reason might we cling to objects, old photographs, tarnished jewelry, yellowed letters? They're charms, little pieces of magic. When we touch them, we regain for a second what time has stolen or worn away.

We hate our parents for having their own lives, don't we, for making decisions for themselves that don't seem to take us into account. They're not people, not really. They're parents; how dare they live and love and die without us?