Quotes About Attachment

The things that make me saddest - when I got into my head - if anything were to happen to me, and my wife were to have to go to my kids and say 'Daddy's gone.' Worst thing I could imagine.

If a superhero knocks over a building, and there are 5,000 people in the building that we can presume are now dead, does it matter? Because they're not people we know. But if one dog we like gets run over by a car, it's the worst thing we've ever seen. I totally understand where that visceral reaction comes from. I have that same reaction.

The best thing is being really close. The worst thing is being really close.

Humans metabolize their purchases very quickly, even if it seemed worth it for any number of reasons when you first bought it. After some time passes, people will go back to feeling the baseline feelings they had previously felt about themselves, no matter how shiny the object, the hair, or the experience.

I just reached the point where plot-driven novels don't hold my interest because I don't care about the fate of characters anymore - whether Emily marries Tom or not, that kind of thing.

It's very important to learn quick lessons from your failures, very important to recognize symptoms of failure pretty early, and it is very, very important to not to be attached too much to the idea - you have to know when to give up an idea.

I couldn't give away my husband's shoes. I could give away other things, but the shoes - I don't know what it was about the shoes, but a lot of people have mentioned to me that shoes took on more meaning than we generally think they do... their attachment to the ground, I don't know - but that did have a real resonance for me.

I consider 'Dreadstar' to be an extension of my family, so it took me a while to feel comfortable letting anyone else take care of this project.

It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.

The funny thing about children is that, whichever room we're in, that's where they'll be. If I'm in the bath, they'll want to be in there too, playing with the toothbrush pot or brushing my hair.

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.

For me, it's always been about Toronto. I love it here. My family loves it here. My wife loves it here, which is important.

I love it here. I really do. Toronto is home for me.

Expectation kills love and shackles freedom.

In the few sessions they'd had together, Sophia had become a sort of sheet anchor in the ocean of his consciousness. And now she was going to sever the anchor chain

There are some songs in your playlist which u don't want to listen and don't want to delete either ....same is the case with some relationships...you want to keep them no matter what...even if you know that they are there for namesake...

Vad brydde han sig om att leva, när inte den lilla flickan kom tillbaka?

but I cannot live in fear of losing him, for fear of not living my life at all.

Colectionar, fetisist, nu m-am putut desp?r?i de simboluri, de amintiri, de verigile acestea ale trecutului gelos ag??ate unele de altele de-a lungul unei vie?i întregi.

Voler salvare l'occupazione a tutti i costi [...] sta a indicare nella maggior parte dei casi un attaccamento viscerale, conscio o inconscio, alla società lavorista. Invece non si tratta di salvare questa società, ma di uscirne.

There were people you cared about. Maybe not many, but there were a few and when you cared about them enough it hurt.

They treasure names and empty appearances above nearly all else, harming themselves and others just to protect them. They want to get money, or a good reputation, or a good relationship. They struggle desperately to get high positions. People always subject their minds to the worst kind of abuse and suffering just to try to get and then keep these empty, impermanent things.

Si mantienes tu mente despejada, encontrarás felicidad en todas partes. Es la paz completa, como la mente de un niño, que no se apega a nada.

I have lived in Mumbai for more than 20 years, have my domicile here, my home and family here.