Quotes About Attachment

The fact that emotional feeling can be experienced during sleep is a reminder that not all processes having an emotional feeling phase originate in the environment.

Since, pending more evidence, there is no reason to suppose that the so-called transitional objects play any special role in a child's development, cognitive or other, a more appropriate term for them would be simply 'substitute objects'.

At the time of his second birthday, for example, a healthy child whose mother is resting on a garden seat will make a series of excursions away from her, each time returning to her before making the next excursion. On some occasions, when he returns, he simply smiles and makes his number; on others he leans against her knee; on yet others he wants to climb on her lap. But never does he stay for long unless he is frightened or tired or thinks she is about to leave.

Your fear of letting go prevents you from letting go of your fear of letting go.

I don't want enlightenment, I want him. Sorry Buddha, I loved him more than you.

Freedom from likes and dislikes, the sudden sense of identification, the spirit of comedy.

The Must be worthless by our estimation or keep us enslaved by an intemperate love of it.

So also we, if we are to give ourselves wholly to Christ, must break away from all the entanglements of this world.

Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

For, as I always like to say: 'It is not possessing something that is harmful, but being attached to it.

He was the universe to me, and all that was not him, was nothing to me.

I learned something that day: there may be worse things than arriving somewhere with your dog and leaving without him, but there aren't many.

He had always worried about her when he was in school, because if he was away from her then he had no control over her existence.

A little fragment of his heart came loose and was lost to him each time he had to say goodbye to her.

We constantly need to be reminded not to attach to anything.

Thinking is a very natural process, but we are so easily conditioned by our thinking and give too much value to it. Maezumi Roshi

Where lovers frequently change the object of their affections one may be reasonably sure to find that they are inspired by a false kind of love.

Take heed of loving me.

Oh do not die, for I shall hateAll women so, when thou art gone.

Where'e're I go, my Soul shall stay with thee: 'Tis but my Shadow I take away...

Every person in therapy has a love disorder.

Key Largo... I could have stayed on that picture for the rest of my life. I adored it.

Life for rent means that my life isn't really my own, I only rented it for a while, but if I don't manage to buy it, to own it, then nothing of what I think is mine is really mine.

New York will be my home for the rest of my life as far as I'm concerned.