Quotes About Attachment

If I could go anywhere in the world, that place would be home.

I still think of myself as from Illinois.

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

I like to be in a huis clos, as the French say - in one place. It's something that in general can create a bit of claustrophobia. But for me, claustrophobia becomes almost immediately claustrophilia. I love it!

That's the thing - I've never really been single. I always end up in a relationship immediately.

I've never been able to shake the idea of family, which is to say I've never been able to shake my family. Being membered - being one limb of an immense grosser body - that's always been a fact to me.

It's part of me, Scotland. I'm still immersed in it even though I am not there.

Falling in love with landscapes is what L.A. women do. It doesn't necessarily imply betrothal or marriage.

It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.

A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.

One of the reasons it is so difficult to break a connection to something or someone you have imprinted on is that after you imprint, it seeds into your mind and goes from working memory to stored, hard-wired memory from which it is much more difficult to sever that attachment.

I'm very independent. I'm not sure how I'd deal with someone who wanted to be with me 24/7.

I cannot live anywhere else except India.

Es solitario aquel o aquella que no es el número uno para nadie.

Leslie Faber always enjoyed belonging to organizations and institutions. The basketball team, the softball team, the church youth group and the Girl Scouts; they all gave her a sense of significance. The uniforms she wore for the sports teams and the Girl Scouts conferred an official status, an attachment that the rest of her life sometimes seemed to lack.

Without selfish partiality—to people you are deeply attached to, your family and friends, to place—we are nothing. We are creatures of kinship and loyalty, not blind servants of the world.

Better than those mobile phones the young ones check hundreds of times a day which makes them go mental She's read about it in the paper Besides, why replace her old phone when it's still in good working order, sits on the console by the front door, attached to a wire that's attached to a socket Telephone conversations should be kept short and had standing Far as she's concerned

It's always a bad sign when we start thinking in numbers,' Joseba had said to me once, apropos a poem he was writing. 'When we're about to lose something good or something we really love, we start to count: only another so many days, we say. And the same thing happens when we're in a situation we don't like: we start to calculate how many days until the end. In either case, thinking in numbers is never good.

Certain material possessions make my life more enjoyable, many others do not…. All too often, a vast collection of possessions end up possessing their owner

People get stuck a lot because they're afraid to act; in the worst case,...we get so attached to some end result that we can't function. We need help just to move on, only life doesn't wait.

Cause what good is this freedom, if I ain't free to love you?

To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.

When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.

I thought about that old saying, how we can never go home again. But I think it's more like a piece of us stays behind when we leave -- a piece we can never reclaim, one that awaits our next visit and demands that we remember.