Quotes About Attachment

Selfishness is one of the surest signs of profound unhappiness; I was so unsure of everything that I only really possessed what I was actually holding in my hands or in my mouth, or at least what was on its way there –

Hardly anyone liked R.E.M. who didn't like them way too much, so part of being an R.E.M. fan meant getting wildly overinvested and then feeling vaguely disappointed by whatever they did next.

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

Somebody once told me I treated my smart phone like Wilson, the volleyball Tom Hanks turns into a friend when he's stranded on a desert island in that movie 'Castaway.' It's an apt comparison: parenting a toddler occasionally feels like being marooned, and your phone is your only connection to the rest of the world.

I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as a child. I wind up sitting on the floor, paralyzed by grief and nostalgia.

I have asked the village blacksmith to forge golden chains to tie our ankles together. I have gathered all the gay ribbons in the world to wind around and around and around and around and around and around again around our two waists.

I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it.

It's what you've been a part of for so long. I don't think I can watch a game without an interest in who wins.

I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part and discuss it only with consenting adults.

I'm always going to live in Texas. Texas is my home - it'll be my home forever.

When I was growing up in Texas, I didn't think there was anywhere else to live; that's how we're raised in Texas.

I've lived in Texas now longer than anywhere and then California and then Oklahoma, but yet Oklahoma is what I consider home.

I don't hate anything about Texas. I love my state. I love my area. It's like home.

Leaving the state of Texas was hard. We're very proud and don't want to leave. But I knew there was something more out there for me.

A lot of times, you finish a movie, and you're either going, 'Oh, thank God, that's over,' or 'Oh, my God, it's over, and I don't want it to end.'

The first thing I feel like we have the potential to do is to deliver to consumers more roots to their home.

I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away. That's why I tend to work with the same people; I really befriend them.

My computer's the first thing I'd save if my house was burning down.

Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.

The hardest thing about being on the road is not being with my animals.

I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.

The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.

The body is the one thing you have to say goodbye to. You can hold on to your memories. You can hold on to the spirit. That's part of the package that you love and the part that comforts you.

I love hot dogs. That's the only thing I can't get rid of.