Quotes About Attachment

Dizes isso agora, mas há de chegar uma altura em que irás gostar de alguém e irás amá-lo profundamente e viver e morrer por ele. Eu sei que sim, tu és assim, e serei obrigado a assistir a tudo isso.

You think so now; but there'll come a time when you will care for somebody, and you'll love him tremendously, and live and die for him. I know you will - it's your way, - and I shall have to stand by and see it

Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me. Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.

The world can go on without me. Here I shall be held by love.

the overriding reason for his attachment to Cleveland: It was the hub of so many transportation networks that he had tremendous room to maneuver in freight negotiations.

Rockefeller never developed quite the same fond attachment to Owego as to Moravia, but he retained pleasing associations with it.

He craved the love of a father who seemed too remote and too self-absorbed to attend to his boyish needs.

It amazed Rachel how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less alive inside you until you could finally endure it. After more time passed you could let yourself remember, even want to remember. But even then what you felt those first days could return and remind you the grief was still there, like old barbed wire embedded in a tree's heartwood. And now this brown-eyed child. Don't love it, Rachel told herself. Don't love anything that can be taken away.

It's not always easy to spot idolatry in ourselves. Until the Holy Spirit brings it to light, we may be unaware how tight a grip something has on us. For that reason, we should pay close attention to anything we're convinced we can't live without.

la clave está en el equilibrio entre el porcentaje de desapego y el de sentimiento, en lograr cierta armonía entre el yo que sufre y el yo que controla.

no hay nada que avive tanto la pasión como la sensación de que el amado se nos escapa.

Qué pena que olvidé que podías morirte, que podía perderte. Si hubiera sido consciente, te habría querido no más, pero mejor.

there is no greater solitude than the solitude experienced when one loves no one

The more tenuous the ties that hold us together, the easier it is to say goodbye. [Julia, 'Harbour of Love']

But did she read to Cara, the books that Cara loved? The Borrowers and The Railway Children and every word of The Secret Garden.) Did she love the children, or simply possess them?

I think,' said Leo [Walton], 'that he [William, 'Tiger'] must have fallen in love with you, he certainly remembered you with the eye of love.' ['Skelmerton']

Possessiveness smothers. [Liz Searley, 'The Stone Boy']

towards Irma, seemingly burning or giving away every last item that had belonged to him?

Brothers and sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear

all Desire is Illusion and a new binding upon the Wheel.

Do not weep; for, look you, all Desire is Illusion and a new binding upon the. wheel.

Perhaps it was the pulling up of her stakes, or claims, to her private loves, renouncing them, that had made room for these people in a kind of universal love, without any claims.

Since my adolescence I have read two and sometimes three newspapers a day, frequently clipping an article that for obscure and soon forgotten reasons attracts me. I usually toss the clippings into a desk drawer, and later, often years later, I'll find myself reading through the clippings, throwing most of them out. It fills me with a strange sadness, a kind of grief for my lost self, as if I were reading and throwing out old diaries.

I helped Jiko to her feet and we walked back to the bus stop together, holding hands again. I was still thinking about what she said about waves, and it made me sad because I knew that her little wave was not going to last and soon she would join the sea again, and even though I know you can't hold on to water , still I gripped her fingers a little more tightly to keep her from leaking away.