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Quotes About Attachment

Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I sometimes cannot understand how she can love another, how she dares love another, when I love nothing in this world so completely, so devotedly, as I love her, when I know only her, and have no other possession.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you expect miracles in your life, then release any attachment to the outcome.
~ Joe Vitale
A dog, for me, it's not just getting a dog. I couldn't leave him at home. I'm looking for a life partner and I'm not ready. I'm not emotionally mature enough.
~ Zac Efron
This craving for health, wealth, long life, and the like - the so - called good - is nothing but an illusion.
~ Swami Vivekananda
One finds life through conquering the fear of death within one's mind. Empty the mind of all forms of attachment, make a go-for-broke charge and conquer the opponent with one decisive slash.
~ Takenaka Shigekata
Being rich is an obstacle to loving. When you are rich, you want to continue to be rich, and so you end up devoting all your time, all your energy, in your daily life to stay rich.
~ Nhat Hanh
My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity – it's envy.
~ Yann Martel, Life of Pi
If you die and i live there's no life for me back in District 12. You're my whole life. I would never be happy again.
~ Suzanne Collins
A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.
~ Yoshida Kenko
My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
~ Halle Berry
People should always have something which they prefer to life.
~ Johann Gottfried Seume
You can adapt to certain situations and to a certain way of life, but it has to be difficult to fully let go of something.
~ Eoin Macken
We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life?
~ Frank Pittman
I was afraid of the pain of dying and terribly reluctant to leave the world behind because I liked life a lot, even if it had been pretty tough sometimes.
~ Alexander Dolgun
I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.
~ Alicia Keys
But just remember, life without me would be even more unbearable.
~ Anne Rice
Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own?
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Now if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time in our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall be attached to them.
~ Benjamin Rush
Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.
~ John Green
When the show's not around any more, it's going to be hard not to have her in my life.
~ Gillian Anderson
Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week, will cause their brains damage.
~ Mem Fox
Some things you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you.
~ Rick Yancey