Quotes About Attachment

How do you explain to someone else why a thing matters to you if it doesn't matter to them? How can you put into words how a book slips inside of you and becomes a part of you so much that your life feels empty without it?

The pursuit of love seemed to need the cultivation of indifference.

I've grown accustomed… to her face.

WHAT WE CALL LOVE is actually a deep interweaving of beings. The emotion we feel is actually a marker that the other person or thing has become part of ourselves; we are no longer separate from the other. This explains why losing someone or something we love hurts so much. It is not just "as if" something has been torn from us. When we enter love, a part of ourselves merges with the other and when we lose love, a part of ourselves is torn away.

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing. Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

The more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love.

Involvement doesn't necessarily mean willing involvement

Think about being onstage playing these songs. I'm opening my personal life up to all these people. But I just can't get attached. I've got to separate myself from the music and lyrics.

On a personal note, I was born in Brooklyn. My folks moved out to Long Island when I was quite young, but once a Brooklynite, always a Brooklynite.

Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's personality.

In Bengali films, since I also write the lyrics, there are certain songs, which I get emotionally and personally attached to.

I personally don't believe people really grow. They just learn stuff when they were a kid, and hold on to it, and that affects every relationship they have.

Just personally, I've been attached to 'On the Road' since 2007 and it was the greatest thing in my life when I got cast in it. I couldn't believe it. When I was 17 and read the book, I looked it up on IMDb and it said that Francis Ford Coppola was going to direct it.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.

I love pet animals, but I don't have any.

I'm a dog person, but I don't have a pet.

I adopted a pet because I have been wanting one for the longest time. In fact, I am really close to Ravi Dubey's dog Moyo.

I have never been a pet lover or really craved the idea of having dogs.

I thought that I was a crazy pet owner, but now I realize I'm not so bad.

When it comes to the great either/or of pet ownership, I am definitely a cat person.

I just don't 'get' pets.

I love animals, but I don't think I can have pets.