Quotes About Attachment

The best thing you can do is remember your home town.

I always liked Darth Vader. I remember, when I was a kid, I went to the toy store for the Darth Vader pencil case. I took that to school for years.

When I was 8, my favorite toy was a stapler. My brother was afraid of me.

Guys never really get over their toys.

When my kids were toddlers, they had all these rotomolded plastic things. My life became surrounded by big, hollow plastic toys - from the scale of playhouses down to rocking horses, and everything in between - which we would then take to the secondhand store. But we'd get sentimentally attached and hate to see them go.

Pixar is filled with people who don't get rid of their toys.

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

My relationship with the track was, I would say, at least fractionally as complicated as my relationship with my old man. So it kept me coming back.

The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.

I've owned about 2,000 guitars through the years because I've traded a lot and given away and sold some stuff.

People used to trade their guitars to get new ones; I never traded anything.

Relationships are so much a rerun of our parental relationships. We're rerunning the relationship they were in together and we're rerunning the relationship we had with them with our lover.

The only thing is, the more I see him and Corr together, the more I think of how unbearable it would be for Sean to lose him. But we can't both win.

I have several dogs and several cats who aren't really mine. In fact, they think that I am theirs. I'd like to have some goats and chickens, but I travel around too much.

O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.

I have no desire to live anywhere else but New Zealand. I've had the good fortune to travel widely around the world, but New Zealand is home - and I like to be here. I'm proud to be a New Zealander.

Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.

I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect but I still love him.

One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.

Dying to your own attachments is a beautiful death. Because this death releases you into real life. You have to die as a seed to live as a tree.

Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same way if the roots of craving are not wholly uprooted sorrows will come again and again

And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling.

The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.

Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots remain uncut and firm, even so, until the craving that lies dormant is rooted out, suffering springs up again and again.