Quotes About Attachment

No man, woman or child is an island. We are ultrasocial creatures, and we can't be happy without having friends and secure attachments to other people.

attachment theory, a well-supported theory that describes the system by which mothers and children regulate each other's behavior so that the child gets a good mix of protection and opportunities for independent exploration.6

man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free himself from all social pressure is to abandon himself and demoralize him.

To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions.

There are failings to which intensely religious people are sometimes prone, namely, indifference to the injustices of society, a willingness to overlook corruption within their own ranks, and a tendency to believe that attachment to God relieves one of the duty to be upright, civil, and gracious in one's dealings with human beings.

I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything

I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.

I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything

I missed you even when I was with you. That's been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.

We lose the things we do not cherish enough, his one thought, his only thought, as he slips into his workman's tunic, buttons it over his street clothes, and opens the closet door.

You cannot keep someone else's love warm, you cannot love by proxy.

There was a devotion to detail here that could only come with genuine affection, perhaps even with love.

You can never totally hate someone who sang you to sleep like that, can you? Who calmed you down and eased your fears. You can feel angry and betrayed, but some part of you will always love them for being there on those scary nights, for giving you a place to run to where your nightmares couldn't follow, the one place where you could descend finally into slumber knowing, at least for the time being, that you were completely safe.

And even as she holds on to him, like she's drowning, she can feel the familiar anger returning, like an old song that you've heard so many times it's not even a song anymore, just a wasted pathway in your brain that you can never reclaim.

You want to move on, but to do that you have to let her go, and you don't want to let her go, so you don't move on.

Our parents can continue to screw us up even after they die, and in this way, they're never really gone.

I started crying the other day just thinking that the baby is going to leave me soon! You have this relationship with this person in your belly and it's really amazing.

Yes, I have patterns of love addiction. But I'm a woman. Of course I do.

Of course he freaked me out. Of course it's nothing to do with me. But none of that matters. He loved me and now he doesn't. I was everything to him and now I am nothing.

Well. There is a psychiatric occurrence we see in men-not often women-where they put all their hopes and dreams onto one person, so intensely that at some point it trips a wire in the brain circuitry, and that causes them to go, in a minute, 180 degrees the other way.

In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.

When you need me, but do not want me then I must stay. But when you want me but no longer need me, I have to go

Is love a fancy or a feeling.... or a Ferrars?

I don't like people," said Velvet. "... I only like horses.