Quotes About Attachment

Stop for a moment and contemplate in horror the endless list of attachments that you have become a prisoner to. Think of concrete things and persons, not abstractions. Once your attachment had you in its grip, you began to strive with every waking minute of your life to rearrange the world around you so that you could attain and maintain the objects of your attachment.

no one joins in the human enterprise of human dreams and visions and goals so marvelously and so creatively as the person who is unattached

Primera verdad: estás aferrado a una falsa creencia, a saber, la de que sin una cosa o persona determinada no puedes ser feliz.

Segunda verdad: si te limitas a disfrutar las cosas, negándote a quedar apegado a ellas, es decir, negándote a creer que no podrás ser feliz sin ellas, te ahorrarás toda la lucha y toda la tensión emocional que supone el protegerlas y conservarlas.

Si tienes mil platos favoritos, la pérdida de uno de ellos te pasará inadvertida, y tu felicidad no sufrirá menoscabo. Pero son precisamente tus apegos los que te impiden desarrollar un más amplio y más variado gusto por las cosas y las personas.

clinging to a dream he does not want to leave.

To really touch something, is to love it.

A second birth," Maria Montessori called it, when a child can move away from his mother on his own. And indeed Owen does seem like a new child, rarely crying, constantly at work on getting himself somewhere else.

Do we choose who we love?

A broken heart doesn't care if you run from it or not. Either way you take it with you.

To enjoy something fully, you had to own it.

What's most important is to create an atmosphere that's real, providing characters the audience can root for. Once they become emotionally attached, that's the secret in building a show. The audience can see themselves in these characters, and they respond to the stories.

My work comes out of a deep psychological place, so it's not like I'm Object Man at home. Theoretically, I'm not against objects, but, personally, I'm not comfortable attaching myself to them - I don't seek them out. What you can say about my home is that it's not very ambitious.

When we say we have patterns, there is a cyclical movement to everything. Our psychological and emotional processes also have become cyclical largely because of a very strong attachment and involvement with physical process, and physical process has to be cyclical; only then we exist. Without out cyclical movement there'll be no physical existence.

I've always liked the idea of making things that last forever, not necessarily in the sense of being unbreakable, but more psychologically permanent. Most people throw stuff away not because it's broken but because their relationship with that object is broken.

My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.

One of the things that concerns me is that so few people who go and get an education elsewhere... feel any real... pull for returning home.

Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.

Buy with your heart, not your head. You can look at all the aspects that make a purchase practical, but that kind of thinking makes it an investment rather than a home.

I don't like London. I'm not happy here. I don't even own a flat here.

It's a very complicated relationship that I have with America. I love it so much. And I also see the places where it's flawed.

I have always had a fleeting relationship with clothing.

I will never be done with South Florida.

Learning how to have 'healthy' attachments sounds easy, but in fact, for someone like me who had damaged early relationships, it's like learning to be fluent in Chinese.