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Quotes About Attachment

Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.
~ Thomas Aquinas
The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
~ Saint Augustine
The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.
~ William Godwin
It's very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.
~ Agatha Christie
When you're an introvert like me and you've been lonely for a while, and then you find someone who understands you, you become really attached to them. It's a real release.
~ Lana Del Rey
Intense love always leads to mourning.
~ Louise Gluck
What does jealousy indicate? Jealousy is love manifested in the physical world. If you are jealous you have a debt to pay; if someone is jealous of you, he has a debt to pay to you.
~ Peter Deunov
The only cause of happiness is love. The only cause of suffering is self grasping.
~ Garchen Rinpoche
We love without heeding reason, and cease to love in the same manner.
~ Giacomo Casanova
when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it's very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
~ Gloria Steinem
The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all. I can't describe how deeply I love them all.
~ Paul Auster
When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.
~ Helen Hunt Jackson
It's such a liability to love another person.
~ Janet Fitch
When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.
~ Blaise Pascal
Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.
~ Remy de Gourmont
As long as the "I" is there, love cannot be. All that we call love is only desire, longing, passion and attachment; as long as ego is there, all these bind one.
~ Rajneesh
You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.
~ Seneca the Elder
He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.
~ Louisa May Alcott
I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy.
~ Helen Fisher
There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs
~ Adam Phillips
Most of us would protest that of course we love our children without any strings attached. But what counts is how things look from the perspective of the children
~ Alfie Kohn
Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.
~ Nelson Algren
I might be collecting wheely bins in 12 months time but at least they'll be wheely bins outside back gates that I know, in a part of the country that I love. There's no place like home!
~ Peter Kay