Quotes About Attachment

So is a woman born — a woman. They are clinging, parasite things, which cannot but adhere; though they destroy themselves by adhering. Do not suppose that I take a pride in it. I would give one of my eyes to be able to disregard him.

Each had treated the girl as an encumbrance he was to undertake, — at a very great price. But

No sé si voy a volver. Siento que cada vez son menos las cosas que me atan a este lugar

you're in my blood, in my bones, and in my heart there is naught but you.

Because he loved and lusted and floundered, while she did not, she would be forever free.

Finally there was a place—for everything! Lucy's garage-sale golf clubs. The quilt with yellow stars from my stepmother. Books that we'd read, that we hadn't yet read, that we'd never read, all on shelves. The things that for years had remained in our parents' homes while we went about our young adulthoods inhabiting small spaces in big cities we brought to that house, and they comforted us. We were home.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are therir own

The ancient rabbis of the Talmud described it pretty well. The first stage of life, they said, "commences in the first year of human existence, when the infant lies like a king on a soft couch, with numerous attendants about him, all ready to serve him, and eager to testify their love and attachment by kisses and embraces.

the parrots were annoyingly arrogant. You could buy the most beautiful one in town, she observed, but that wouldn't make it love you. You could feed it, care for it and exclaim over its loveliness, but there was nothing to guarantee that it would stay home with you. There had to be a lesson there somewhere.

Never enter relationships. Otherwise, suffer the pains that come with it. Enjoy your individuality while you can.

Niets is ondraaglijker dan geluk, het is alleen te doen als je weet dat je op het punt staat het te verliezen. Houden van is een activiteit voor vliegvelden en stations, en crematoria natuurlijk.

Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own?

The cause of suffering is desire

Es peligroso quitar su cachorro a un tigre, y también es peligroso arrebatar a una mujer a una ilusion

When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.

And the thread of her happiness was no stronger than the clasp of her fingers on his coat, no longer than this last mile of their journey.

The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.

A button! What's a button, eh? To a bachelor, my dear friend, a button is an important thing. An entire world.

A mother who undergoes a nine-month pregnancy is likely to feel that the product of all that pain and discomfort 'belongs' to her.

I discovered that it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing. That is, we have to believe in something which has no form and no color--something which exists before all forms and colors appear... No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea.

Emotionally we have many problems, but these problems are not actual problems; they are something created; they are problems pointed out by our self-centered ideas or views.

my selfishness would be proof that it wasn't love, but a need for ownership.

Places are often treated like persons.

En cuanto a las necesidades religiosas, considero irrefutable su derivación del desamparo infantil y de la nostalgia por el padre