Quotes About Attachment

You develop a bond that comes from spending too much time together.

I didn't spend a whole lot of time here, but I had the seven best years of my career in this city and having an attachment here 20-some odd years later is pretty special to me.

I've had, like, four long-term boyfriends. I tend to be in relationships for long periods of time.

There is a time to separate from our mother. But unless we are ready to separate-unless we are ready to leave her and be left-anything is better than separation.

I've spent lots of time in London, I studied in London, I like London. It's just not my home.

I have always been in a relationship. I don't remember the time when I wasn't in one

For a long time, I had a crazy girl dating habit.

I tend to feel really protective of songs, and if they aren't sitting well in a record, I'll pull them tight to my chest until I feel it's a better time.

She thought without surprise, looking down from her height, that her shoulders were strong enough to bear anything now, having borne the worst that could ever happen to her. She could not desert Tara; she belonged to the red acres far more than they could ever belong to her. Her roots went deep into the blood-colored soil and sucked up life, as did the cotton.

Il se taisait toujours sur les images qu'il voyait derrière ses yeux fermés. On aurait dit qu'il aimait cette douleur, qu'il l'aimait comme il m'avait aimée, très fort, jusqu'à mourir peut-être, et que maintenant il la préférait à moi. »

On aurait dit qu'il aimait cette douleur, qu'il l'aimait comme il m'avait aimée, très fort, jusqu'à mourir peut-être, et que maintenant il l'a préférait à moi. 

Ça a toujours été trop tard pour ne plus vous aimer.

Other ties bind them in a grip which is not one of sentiment or of happiness, it is something else which bestows neither joy nor sorrow.

I did not love less; indeed I loved more. But the weight of love, like that of an arm thrown tenderly across a chest, becomes little by little too heavy to bear.

aveva dovuto credersi amato ben poco per non sentire che perderlo sarebbe stato per me il peggiore dei mali.

Estamos atados por tantas ligaduras en que hemos vivido que nos parece que al alejarnos será también más fácil alejarnos de nosotros mismos.

Si había esperado protegerme mediante su sacrificio, debió pensar que yo lo amaba muy poco para no darse cuenta de que el peor de los males era el de perderlo.

Il mio insegnante (un uomo assai mediocre, ma pieno di buona volontà) consigliava mia madre di mandarmi all'estero a perfezionare la mia educazione musicale. Sapevo che vi avrei trovato difficile l'esistenza; ciononostante desideravo partire. Abbiamo tanti legami con luoghi dove abbiamo vissuto che ci sembra più facile, lasciandoli, lasciare noi stessi.

Her world had shrunk - no matter who she was with, she'd prefer to be with him. That's what happened when you fell in love - you only want to see them.

If it don't come back, it was never yours. If it comes back, it's yours to keep.

That's right," Karen said, clutching the bag to her chest and looking like Gollum with the Ring. "It's only stuff.

Like avocado refrigerators and outdated clothing, love becomes clutter—emotional clutter that takes up space better used for something else.

When we attach value to things that aren't love—the money, the car, the house, the prestige—we are loving things that can't love us back. We are searching for meaning in the meaningless.

Surrender means, by definition, giving up attachment to results. When we surrender to God, we let go of our attachment to how things happen on the outside and we become more concerned with what happens on the inside.