Quotes About Attachment

The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn't matter what body it came out of. I've never felt more strongly about anything in my life.

If you loved, sooner or later you always lost; that was the penalty you had to pay for loving. Grief can be endured - somehow. But how poor and bare would be a life which had nothing to grieve over!

It's not easy to give up something you've had all your life.

A part of them has grown very attached to a certain way of life.

You can live in the world and have friends, family and possessions. But don't take them all too seriously. Death removes everything. Feel death is every moment, as life is every moment.

Why is it when you start to meditate you stop at a certain point? Because you're tied to the world, you have holes in your being and you haven't learned to lead an efficient life.

The male or female that the child has the most exposure to in the first four to six years of its life is the primary imprinter of the child.

Stick to life, just like a baby sticking to a candy!

If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

I consider myself British and have very happy memories of the UK. I spent the first 14 years of my life in England and never wanted to leave. When I was in Australia I went back to England a lot.

You almost believe that you will never come to the end of a roll of tape; and when you do, there is a feeling, nearly, though very briefly, of shock and grief.

If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.

People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging.

All my life I've always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.

There are some people in life that you can't get over.

This isn't about them, he snarled at me. This is about Bella. She has never been the one for you, she had never chosen you, but you continue to destroy your life for her!

if i win and you die, i dont have a home to go back to. you are my life.

Thirst after body is the great bane of human life.

You can't just make me different and then leave. You can't. You can't change me and make my whole life centered around you, then leave.

I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you; everything else tastes like chaff in my mouth.

The paradox of acceptance: When our mind becomes less attached and dependent on things being a certain way our happiness in life dramatically improves.

I've always been the sort of person who immerses myself in things, and eventually you become part of that life.

Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.

I've had cats all my life and obviously loved them, but the litter box, and the having to always get a house sitter, they're just too - they're too rigid. Cats are too needy somehow.