Quotes About Attachment

When you really love someone, you think about him all the time. No matter where you are or what you're doing, he never completely leaves your thoughts. When you're apart, you want to be with him. When you're together, you're conscious of every move he makes, every word he says, and every breath he takes. Just the sight of him makes your heart rae and your mouth go dry. And when he touches you, the rest of the world disappears.

But you, Pearl, never liked anything once it was yours.

The security of the parent about being a parent will eventually become the source of the child's feeling secure about himself.

liked her even if he hadn't loved her; possibly, if Nelissa hadn't suddenly become available

I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him.

The person whose mind is always free from attachment, who has subdued the mind and senses, and who is free from desires, attains the supreme perfection of freedom from Karma through renunciation.

Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

On action alone be thy interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction.

The self-controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace.

When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger.

Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weigh him down.

obsession with sensual pleasures, holding firmly to sensual pleasures that khattiyas fight with khattiyas, brahmins with brahmins, and householders with householders." "Why is it, Master Kacc?na, that ascetics fight with ascetics?" "It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.

While experiencing painful feeling, he seeks delight in sensual pleasure. For what reason? Because the uninstructed worldling does not know of any escape from painful feeling other than sensual pleasure.6 When he seeks delight in sensual pleasure, the underlying tendency to lust for pleasant feeling lies behind this. He does not understand as it really is the origin and the passing away, the gratification, the danger, and the escape in the case of these feelings.

I looked back all the time, too much, too often. Like Rose, I would be circling my mother the rest of my life.

Bu adam, soyunmak, (çok gerekli, vazgeçilmez say?labilecek üç dört parça ?ey d???nda evini, çevresini dolduran her ?eyden) s?yr?lmak ister... Kimi zaman, sevgilerinden, sevdiklerinden bile. K?sacas?, ard?nda art?k b?rakmam?? bir ölü olmak ister. Ç?rp?n?r; ama bunu ba?armak pek güç olaca?a benzer.

While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.

Love," he will respond, answering his own question. "I loved my men and they loved me Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I just couldn't give them up, just like a mother couldn't give up the child."7 *

It's as if, when we become Christians, God attaches a spiritual umbilical cord to our spirits so he can impart to us his life and strength. Unlike a physical birth, when the doctor cuts the cord, in our spiritual rebirth, God remains attached to us.2

He and the second wife must have made a very close, self-contained unit--two people moving through life as if in a thinly membraned bubble, venturing out separately for practical purposes but neither of them whole unless they were together. People who didn't need many friends or outside activities, who found complete fulfillment in each other.

Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.

Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. I throw it out of my hands as soon as possible, lest it should find its way into my heart.

I'm kind of like an open wound all the time, and that's hard. It's hard to deal with, especially in this industry. Every time I leave a movie, I feel like I'm going to die. Because you connect with these people, and then they all leave. I wish I wasn't like that, but I am.

Being attached to America these days is like being in a pen with a wounded bull.

Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can't 'rationally' transcend the kind of primal pain that such relationships can arouse.