Quotes About Attachment

Meaning doesn't lie in things. Meaning lies in us. 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. Money, of itself, means nothing. Material things, of themselves, mean nothing. It's not that they're bad. It's that they're nothing.

It's unbelievable how tenaciously we cling to what we've prayed to be released from.

special relationship is a relationship based on fear.

Cuando nos entregamos a Dios, nos desprendemos de nuestro apego a la forma en que suceden las cosas afuera y empezamos a preocuparnos más por lo que pasa en nuestro interior.

I surrender my attachment to lesser things.

Material things, of themselves, mean nothing. It's not that they're bad. It's that they're nothing.

To the extent that I withdraw my attachment to what you did, I will no longer be affected by what you did. I have decided to put my faith elsewhere. That is the miracle of forgiveness.

Absence does make the heart grow fonder—at first, at any rate. Mrs. Bunting was well aware of that. During the long course of hers and Bunting's mild courting, they'd been separated for about three months, and it was that three months which had made up her mind for her. She had got so used to Bunting that she couldn't do without him, and she had felt—oddest fact of all—acutely, miserably jealous.

It felt very good to have him walking beside her. Good like rest and quiet, like something you could live without but you needed anyway. That you had to learn how to miss, and then you'd never stop missing it.

When she had been married a little while, she concluded that love was half a longing of a kind that possession did nothing to mitigate.

Any good thing is less good the more any human being lays claim to it.

Home. What kinder place could there be on earth, and why did it seem to them all like exile? Oh

What use was there in calling a day by a certain name, or thinking of it as anything but weather? They knew what time of the year it was when the timothy bloomed, when the birds were fledging. They knew it was morning when the sun came up. What more was there to know? If Doll was going to be lost forever, Lila wanted to be right there with her, holding to the skirt of her dress. She had

You think you're disconnected. But the question is, what are you disconnected from? You're actually constantly disconnecting from yourself by having all these things.

Ah, we love where we are born, we Sicilians, but Sicily does not love us.

Was je dan nog steeds verliefd op je ongrijpbare landgenote, Ricardo Somocurcio? Geen twijfel mogelijk.

Miss Manson," said Freddie, "I think I love you.

You know what he said? He said that being away from me is less like being away from a person than being away from other people is. I don't know anyone else who would say something like that. And he was right. When we were apart, I missed him all the time, but he didn't feel faraway. He felt closer than the kids at school.... Certain people are like that, I guess. They're together no matter where they are. They just belong to each other.

But when you flee someone, no matter how far you roam, that person will follow you as doggedly as the stars.

Love? Dopamine released in the brain, which gets depleted over time, leaving contempt.

I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold onto for very long, and the ones who don't understand you at all stick around.

His efforts were always in the service of releasing people from their fixed ideas about who or what they were, about freeing them from attachment to whatever concept they were clinging to, about loosening the hold that the fear-based ego claimed as its birthright.

According to Buddhism, it is our fear at experiencing ourselves directly that creates suffering.

The Second Noble Truth of the Buddha takes its cue from this experience. It is traditionally described as the truth of "the arising of dukkha," and its central tenet is that the cause of suffering is craving or thirst. The