Quotes About Attachment

And suddenly it seemed to Olive that every house she had ever gone into depressed her, except for her own, and the one they had built for Christopher. It was as though she had never outgrown that feeling she must have had as a child - that hypersensitivity to the foreign smell of someone else's home, the fear that coated the unfamiliar way a bathroom door closed, the creak in a staircase worn by footsteps not one's own.

Angelina said, "Mom. I don't want you to die. That's the whole thing. You took from me the ability to care for you in your old age, and I wanted to be with you when you died, when you die. Mom. I wanted that.

She did not say, and only fleetingly did she think: And you have always taken up so much space in my heart that it has sometimes felt to be a burden.)

am not going to say anything more about this. But I loved him, my father. I did.

the sight of him then broke my heart. But I was used to that feeling—I had it almost every time after I saw him.

We all live with people—and places—and things—that we have given great weight to. But we are weightless, in the end. A few weeks later I found out that William did not like watching me floss my teeth.

We all live with people—and places—and things—that we have given great weight to. But we are weightless, in the end.

Maybe you fall in love with people who save your life, even when you think it's not worth saving.

That out of sight is out of mind is true of most we leave behind

Give a child a good birth (if at all possible, no drugs to the mother)=1 and a good first three years, especially a good first three months, and a major part of the job of child rearing is done.

Cuando hay amor tenemos el antídoto clave contra la neurosis, porque la ausencia de amor es el ingrediente esencial para que prospere la neurosis.

You never so much want to be happy with a woman as when you know that you're ceasing to care for her.

the world of being is like this gravel: you think you own a car, a house, this blue-zigzagged shirt, but you just borrow these things. Yesterday, you constructed an aqueduct of dreams and stood at Gibraltar, but you possess nothing.

Sometimes conceiving an affection for an animal is easier than for a human.

No faltan en otras naciones, don Hermes... Lo que pasa es que éstos duelen más porque son nuestros.

If he touched her, he couldn't talk to her, if he loved her he couldn't leave, if he spoke he couldn't listen, if he fought he couldn't win.

While one applies the methods of the Shravakayana and reverses the four beliefs of the worldly beings by means of the four antidotes taught in this system, one will develop an attachment to these remedies.

when selflessness is seen in objects, the seeds of cyclic existence are destroyed.aryadeva

But the places we come from don't leave us as easily as we leave them.

That was the problem with getting used to people - you had to miss them when they were gone.

This is the truth about things: If you take something that isn't yours, it will never belong to you. You can try to hold on to it, but somehow, it will slip through your fingers. If something wasn't meant to be yours, it won't be. No matter what you do to keep it, you will lose it.

We should at once cast far away Our mind's attachments: Tinder for the fiery flames of hate.

All form, therefore, is like a dream, And who will be attached to it, who thus investigates? The body, in this way, has no existence; What, therefore, is male and what is female?

Al igual que un viajero no tiene apego a la posada donde se hospeda durante una noche, yo tampoco debo tener apego a este cuerpo, que es mi posada solo durante este renacimiento.