Quotes About Attachment

Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.

So I feel like while I'm in Miami, which is I hope for a while, a long time, forever, I'll be able to rep Miami and everything that's going on here.

I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear.

I had a big Akita, Yoshi, who was fabulous. I loved him. We lost him when he was 12, and I've never been able to replace him. Normally, most people lose a pet and get another and keep going on. But it just felt wrong to me; it felt disloyal.

I think 'Lost' is like losing a friend or a relative or someone. You can't replace it with another one.

When I was going away to school, I had a friend who took a liking to my family just a little too much. We couldn't get her out of the house. It took me saying to my parents, 'I don't want her here. I'm feeling replaced.'

Possessions can be replaced - it's people that can't.

I loved my nanny very much, but she was never a replacement for my mom in any way.

I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.

Attachment to the past and fears concerning the future not only govern the way you select the things you own but also represent the criteria by which you make choices in every aspect of your life, including your relationships with people and your job.

I have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it's both. It seems like I'm always leaving my home. That's part of the formula. I love the Dominican Republic. I go back all the time. I love New Jersey. Go back all the time.

When something you love gets taken away, it hurts you.

I am giddy with enthusiasm when my companies are doing well. And my heart hurts when they're not. Maybe that sounds very cheesy, but that's the reality of my life right now.

It hurts when you are at a club you loved, a place where you think you might want to end your career, and things go badly.

I save her marked-up manuscripts as an unluckier husband might save love letters.

So many women today have become so focused on their children, they've developed these romantic entanglements with their children's lives, and the husbands are secondary. They're left out. And the romantic focus is on the children.

When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person; you're falling in love with your idea of love.

The local community is very important in one's life; the feelings of identification with a place and people.

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

I love L.A. and feel attached to this city, but I don't identify myself as being a part of it.

I will forever and always identify with Scarborough - no matter where I move.

I'll always identify as a Chicagoan; if it wasn't so cold, I'd be there forever.

I could not identify with harming my child or giving up my child. But I could identify with giving up my child if it were going to be ultimately in his best interest.

Television is about identifying with the characters.