Quotes About Attachment

Yet he was still shaken by fading echoes of his fear that she might flee. Losing her would be very . . . personal.

Although the release was heartbreaking for the Adamsons, they were mindful that she had been born free.

He tells me to go away, but I don't think love is anything like water. It doesn't slip off that easily.

She wasn't in love but she would love him, if that would save her.

The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer.

There's a school of wisdom about love that says the surest way to lose someone is to hold on to them too tightly -- as demonstrated over and over again by the split-ups of lovers, but also by parents and children. Although there it's more complicated by far. Lovers, initially strangers, become strangers again; the tie between parent and child pulls and twists for a lifetime, taking on the strangest forms.

Wherever it is you make your home, there is always this other place, this other person, calling to you. Come to me. Come back.

This was the terrible part of being a parent. The more you loved, the more you had to lose. It might as well be your own heart the pitcher was firing off toward the plate, hovering out in midair, ready for some bat to smash into it. Once you had a child you were never safe again.

En verdad, si no existía ya una confianza en el futuro ni un apego a la tierra ni una verdadera fe en las creencias, ¿por qué no volver al terreno del odio? Sólo de la derrota podía surgir algo nuevo; no ha sido así, pero eso no quita nada al hecho de que fuera la mejor razón para hacer la guerra: poderla perder.

La forma de unos labios es mi patria de turno.

Qué había dicho Irina una vez, cuando le pregunté si me quería? Dijo que no se ama por corresponder. Dijo que amar es necesitar.

Él creía conocerla. Y aun cuando no hubiera sido así, ¿acaso no era suficiente saber que era la criatura más querida por él sobre la tierra? Y que además, y esto era lo más importante, le serviría para irse de la vida alumbrándose con aquella imagen que borraría todos los demás recuerdos.

She simply cannot let go of love- and who can blame that? Is it not the hardest thing in the world to relinquish, once you have it?

And what does she mean by love, anyway? People use that word and mean all sorts of things by it.

He was afraid to pick up the baby. If he touched it, it might bond with him or something. Or he might leave fingerprints all over it.

Social neuroscientists now believe that the need to belong trumps the need for safety.

Let] go of your attachments: your attachment to being right, to having total control, or to living forever. This process of letting go is integral to the process of becoming whole.

So if you ask yourself from what exactly are you to be detached, the only possible answer is that you are to give up your attachment to the way you think things are. When you do, you get out of your own way and

This practice can be done both on and off the yoga mat. It is difficult but rewarding beyond belief. The next time you feel yourself caught in the grip of attachment, such as wanting something to turn out a certain way, take time out—right then and there—to notice what is happening in your body. How does your belly feel? Has your breathing changed? Is your jaw tight? Your forehead drawn? Notice your bodily sensations. They are the manifestations of your attachment.

Do you think we'll ever really belong anywhere?" "I suppose not," said Papa. "Not the way people belong who have lived in one place all their lives. But we'll belong a little in lots of places, and I think that may be just as good.

By developing a contaminated, stigmatized identity, the child victim takes the evil of the abuser into herself and thereby preserves her primary attachments to her parents. Because the inner sense of badness preserves a relationship, it is not readily given up even after the abuse has stopped; rather, it becomes a stable part of the child's personality structure.

A healthy connection is when partners are mutually committed to the relationship and both want to open their hearts to each other. In contrast, attachment is when we cling to someone with a death grip, hoping that person will change. Attachments are dangerous because they can keep us linked to unavailable people or toxic relationships. If you are looking for intimacy, search out people who are excited to be with you.

We're bound. One soul, the humans say. They don't know the half of it. Wherever you go, I must go; whatever you do, I must be with you. If you hurt, I hurt; your joy is my joy. We can never be free again.

my true friends always gave me this supreme proof of attachment: a spontaneous aversion to the man I loved.