Quotes About Attachment

No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea.

Not to be attached to something is to be aware of its absolute value.

It is necessary to remember what we have done, but we should not become attached to what we have done in some special sense.

So without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, to express yourself freely as you are is the most important thing to make yourself happy, and to make others happy... So we should be concentrated with our full mind and body on what we do; and we should be faithful, subjectively and objectively, to ourselves, and especially to our feelings... it is better to express how you feel without any particular attachment or intention.

Dogen-zenji said, "To give is nonattachment." That is, just not to attach to anything is to give.

The pain of falling APART is felt only after you have been A PART!!!!

It is necessary to keep in mind both the trustfulness born of desperation, and the power we invest in the things we hold dear.

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success with it.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.

It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love.

There's a certain type of person who, having read this far, is anxiously wondering: Does something bad happen to the dog?

Nothing has changed. It's still very simple. I miss him. I miss him every day. I miss him very much. But how would it be if that feeling was gone? I would not want that to happen. I told the shrink: it would not make me happy at all not to miss him anymore.

He has to forget you. He has to forget you and fall in love with me. That's what has to happen.

Yes, well... I suppose the man who owns nothing is free." Gunnulf replied, "A man's possessions own him more than he owns them.

As long as it still hurts, it isn't love yet.

Te amaba como si me pertenecieras, sin recordar que nadie pertenece a nadie, que poseer algo, cualquier cosa, es un vano padecimiento.

Never get attached to possessions…. They're just things and you can always get more things.

I'm a Russian. Without the Motherland, I'd be nothing.

When somebody leaves this plane—or, if you like, goes into another room—those left behind sometimes try and stop loving—but this is a mistake, because even if you have loved only once in your life, you're ruined.

But how do you find the right people-how do you love without smothering them? How do you not suffocate them with all the love you've built up in their absence?

Domestic dogs are essentially wolf puppies that have grown up physically, but not reached emotional maturity. That's why many women prepare for life with a man by first practising with a dog.