Quotes About Attachment

I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me.

He could not die when the trees were green, For he loved the time too well.

Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest of desire and the brushwood of longing, be rid of the forest, bhikkhus.

I want to be reborn as a tree; that way I can plant my roots down, never move and can never be separated from the ones I love.

we cling to our last pleasures as the tree clings to its last leaves.

People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.

We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility.

I was still too young to know that there is no such thing as love without trust. There is only obsession and co-dependence.

Some day your head won't find my lap so easily. Trust is a habit you'll soon break.

I am usually always singing about the same god damn person so I will love him forever but you know, it's all good. It's all good!

That's why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.

Love is like a bird, they flies everywhere, its free, but its hard to trust someone where they like to stay.

You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.

Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, but more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.

Sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth. But if you cling to it too strongly, then even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it.

People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.

This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love, you are.

So what's up, Clark?" "Was wondering if this is yours?" "If what's mine?" Clark turned around and showed them his back, where the quivering, sobbing mess that was Charlie's baby sister had attached herself.

I have been in love with no one, and never shall", she whispered, "unless it should be with you.

I have never been in love with no one, and never shall," she whispered, "unless it should be with you.

Jamás me he enamorado de nadie, y jamás me enamoraré —susurró—; a menos que sea de ti.

I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it was, and always will be yours. If it never returns, it was never yours to begin with.

As soon as a manhas his guard up. he will not fall in love or get attached the only way he'll get attached is if you lower his guard first.