Quotes About Attachment

El apego es amor limitado, pero el verdadero amor no tiene límites

El amor tiene dos modalidades: hacia uno mismo y hacia los demás. Es como la respiración: el aire viene y va . Cuando hay apego, es como si se inspirara más de lo que se expele. << todo para mi >>. Mas hacia lo propio, la familia, el bando; menos hacia los demás. Eso no es equilibrado.

Parte de la evolución es aprender a superar el apego, porque el espíritu busca Libertad.

El verdadero amor no es apego, no encadena ni se encadena; más bien libera y se libera. Quienes se aman de verdad no necesitan estar pegados como siameses

El amor es una goma elástica que los humanos, a fuerza de tirar, consiguen que se alargue. Pero, al cabo, uno de los que tiraban se cansa y suelta su extremo y la goma le da un porrazo en las narices al que todavía seguía tirando…

Cuando el amor llega puede ser ciego, pero cuando se va es muy lúcido.

Ama sin apegarte. Solo quien sabe estar en soledad puede encontrar el orden y la creatividad que luego verterá en su compañero o compañera. En el amor conyugal hay que buscar una buena ecuación entre proximidad y lejanía.

Si das amor a cambio de compañía, resígnate a perder las dos.

Some say that one-sided love is better than none, but like half a loaf of bread, it is likely to grow hard and moldy sooner.

A man in love is a man under the strong influence of a highly charged image which even if it is far different from the reality as other people see it, nevertheless guides his ideas, feelings, and behavior.

When things began to go badly wrong between me and Alice, I had a terrible fear that getting attached to an upper-class girl like her was part of a childhood resentment, connected to my feelings about my mother, to bring down women, and that deep inside I was thinking, "Here's an Ormsby-Gore, and I'm going to make her suffer.

Something more profound also happened when I got this guitar. As soon as I got it, I suddenly didn't want it anymore. This phenomenon was to rear its head throughout my life and cause many difficulties.

Gould's sunbird landed on the crown of a nearby hemlock. In the brilliant mountain light, its burgundy mantle and back set off its bright yellow rump and belly, highlighted by a long blue tail. The Buddhists say that attachment to beauty is one of the false perceptions humans hold. We, however, suspended Mincha's Buddhist instruction at such moments and wallowed in our attachment. Over

To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.

I don't ever want another dog. Never! I only want Lassie!

I have several dogs and several cats who aren't really mine. In fact, they think that I am theirs. I'd like to have some goats and chickens, but I travel around too much.

I have a love/hate relationship with just about all technology in my life. My first typewriter in particular. I had a helluva time putting new ribbon on it.

I care about this woman deeply. I care what she thinks and what she does. I care what happened to her and what will happen to her. I want to keep her safe.

passion is like sand. It disappears no matter how tightly one tries to hold on to it.

Ça ne fait rien, disait monsieur Ibrahim. Ton amour pour elle, il est à toi. Il t'appartient. Même si elle le refuse, elle ne peut rien y changer. Elle n'en profite pas, c'est tout. Ce que tu donnes, Momo, c'est à toi pour toujours; ce que tu gardes, c'est perdu à jamais!

Your love for her belongs to you. It's yours. Even if she refuses it, she cannot change it. She isn't benefiting from it, thats all. What you give, Momo, is yours forever. What you keep is lost for all time!"-Monsieur Ibrahim

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.