Quotes About Attachment

If I had loved you less or played you slyly I might have held you for a summer more

I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.

Een van de dingen die ik leerde tijdens het schrijven van de roman, en ik heb er veel geleerd, was hoe moeilijk het is om nie te hechten aan de valse schijn van waarheid die een geschreven pagina wekt.

I felt as if there were invisible threads connecting us - I felt the invisible strands of her hair still winding around me - and thus as she disappeared completely beyond the sea - I still felt it, felt the pain where my heart was bleeding - because the threads could not be severed.

ljubav je bozhansko osecanje i svaka nova zaljubljenost obavezno u sebi nosi i senku zhalosti zbog delica sopstvenog ja koje se daruje objektu strasti.

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

It would seem probable that the attachment of such a one is of a tender and profound character; indeed, it is possible that in this class of men we have the love sentiment in one of its most perfect forms—a form in which from the necessities of the situation the sensuous element, though present, is exquisitely subordinated to the spiritual.

To some perhaps it may appear a little strained to place this last-mentioned form of attachment on a level of importance with the others, and such persons may be inclined to deny to the homogenic [...] or homosexual love that intense, that penetrating, and at times overmastering character which would entitle it to rank as a great human passion. But in truth this view, when entertained, arises from a want of acquaintance with the actual facts.

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.

My book and heartMust never part.

A primary role of the father is to teach the baby that love and comfort are not necessarily associated with food.

Love is the thread that binds us.

H2O: two parts Heart and one part Obsession.

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Maybe part of loving is learning to let go.

The fewer clear facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion.

they say you can't really be in love with someone unless they love you too, don't they?

If you want to make someone cry, " Bruno said slowly, "you give them an onion to chop. But if you want them to feel sad, you cook them the dish their mother used to cook for them when they were small...

So, we were born happy. We lost it. We were born with the gift of life. We lost it. We've got to rediscover it. Why did we lose it? Because we were working actively. They taught us to work actively, to make ourselves miserable. How did they do that? By teaching us to become attached. By teaching us to have desires so intense that we would refuse to be happy unless they were fulfilled.

Said a disciple, 'I don't trade my love for money.' Said the Master, 'isn't itas bad - or worse - that you trade it for love?

All suffering is caused by my identifying myself with something, whether that something is within me or outside of me.

A tu gde je strah nema ljubavi, jer uvek mrzimo ono ?ega se plašimo.

if you just suppress your desire, and you attempt to renounce the object of your desire, you are likely to be tied to it.