Quotes About Attachment

This is his burden- it never occurs to him to call it love.

I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. He didn't want to burn my photo or toss it away, but he didn't want to look at me anymore, either.

She held on to two sides of an hourglass and wondered how this could be possible. The time she'd had alone had been gravitationally circumscribed by when her attachments would pull her back. And they had pulled now – doublefisted.

Buckley kept the shoe on his dresser, until one day it wasn't there anymore and no amount of looking for it could turn it up.

I had always been in love with him. I counted the lashes of each closed eye. He had been my almost, my might-have-been, and I did not want to leave him any more than I did my family.

He did not use these things anymore, and yet, the thought of letting them go made him sad. He felt they represented times in his life he could not recall without their presence. They represented stories

I dead parting from them because in the short time we've been together they've been like family to me. Like family might have been, I mean.

She thought of how diligently she'd worked to free herself. Difficult because of the shock she was in, discovering she was trapped, captured most of all by possessions.

I think she thought she love him. But he got so many of us. All needing somethin'.

I dread parting from them because in the short time we've been together they've been like family to me. Like family might have been, I mean.

maybe it isn't love, maybe it's a chain.

Cause she the only one you ever love, she say, sides me.

Maybe the mother manages to be a mirror only part of the time. In such 'tantalizing' cases, some babies learn to withdraw their own needs when the mother's are evident.

What makes us love a child isn't something about the child—it's something about us. We don't care for children because we love them; we love them because we care for them.

Ashoka supplemented this general moral and political principle by a dialectical argument based on enlightened self-interest: 'For he who does reverence to his own sect while disparaging the sects of others wholly from attachment to his own sect, in reality inflicts, by such conduct, the severest injury on his own sect.

JEALOUS, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

AFFIANCED, pp. Fitted with an ankle-ring for the ball-and-chain.

You can't become attached to things, not out here in the wild.

Well-used memories, picked over and worn thin like a favourite shirt.

Cuando no se puede tener algo, se quiere. Cuando se tiene, de repente brotan las dudas. Y luego, cuando parece que se puede perder, se descubre que se necesita más que nunca. El

I can see her on your arm like an empty dress, a kind of echo at a higher pitch.

Cosca winced. "You always were far too attached to fighting. How often did I tell you? A mercenary has no business getting involved with that nonsense.

If strength is love, then we weren't strong enough, But if strength is letting love go, we were.

Assim como é necessário energia para separar dois átomos de oxigênio que estão unidos, é preciso energia para quebrar os vínculos com as pessoas em nossa vida.