Quotes About Attachment

has it ever occurred to you that where there is no anger, there is also no love?

It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, son as granted, fly; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.

How often attachment is mistaken for love! Even when the relationship is a good one, love is spoiled by attachment, with its insecurity, possessiveness, and pride; and then when love is gone, all you have left to show for it are the "souvenirs" of love, the scars of attachment.

We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved.

how hollow and futile life can be when it's founded on a false belief in continuity and permanence.

was physically and emotionally painful and exhausting, but I was grateful for the chance to so thoroughly learn to let go of my earthly attachments and trust all would be well.

The worst thing a girl can do is trail after a boy when a love affair is dead.

But you can't stay with people because of guilt. Or because they can drive a speedboat.

There's genuine pain in Eric's eyes. And I feel a stab of guilt. But you can't stay with people because of guilt.

You can't hold on to things just because of the memories. Otherwise, no one would ever move house. Or country. Or chuck a crap boyfriend. Every crap boyfriend has at least one good memory attached to him. But you have to let them go. Otherwise, you're all, 'Oh, but there was that lovely time we walked in the autumn leaves.

I would go so far as to say I can't seem to build the life I want without you. Nothing fits.

The trouble with me is, I can't let things go.

She somehow understands that I have to know how Seb is, because I feel this strange, inextricable link to him. Which isn't a relationship-- God, of course not. We're not even friends, really. It's just... it's a different kind of thing. A yearning. A tugging in my heart. A need to be with him and know that he's OK. I mean, what would you call that?

My phone's my life. I can't exist without it. It's a vital organ.

I've lost it. The only thing in the world I wasn't supposed to lose. My engagement ring. To say this is a special ring is an understatement.

My phone is my people. It's my friends. It's my family. It's my work. It's my world. It's everything. I feel like someone's wrenched my life support system away from me.

Incredibly fond.

Hundreds?" I stare at her. "Why did you keep hundreds of email printouts?" "Don't you start!" says Demeter defensively. "I suppose I thought I might need them one day.

When the child must be weaned, the mother too is not without sorrow at the thought that she and the child are separated more and more, that the child which first lay under her heart and later reposed upon her breast will be so near to her no more.

What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life.

This isn't like an auction, right? You guys aren't going to take it away?

What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

People come and go, some stay for a while some leave soon. But when they go they take away the memories, promises, dreams and a part of my life.