Quotes About Attachment

Where you are is who you are. The further inside you the place moves, the more your identity is intertwined with it. Never casual, the choice of place is the choice of something you crave.

Me gustaría mucho que vinieras, ya que, aunque seas huraño, formas parte de mi paisaje cotidiano. Me he acostumbrado a encontrarte cada mañana en tu pupitre, dormido o haciendo garabatos sobre tu cuaderno negro. Si un día dejaras de venir, al universo le faltaría algo. [pp. 126]

Sabes por qué prácticamente todas las relaciones terminan mal? Yo te lo diré: porque en seguida creemos que el otro es posesión nuestra.

You are in my blood. I can't help it. We can't be anywhere except together.

You can't part the skin of a sausage, Or a dad from his fond son and heir. And you can't part the hair on a bald-headed man, For there'll be no parting there.

Vade Mecum I want the scissors to be sharp and the table perfectly level when you cut me out of my life and paste me in that book you always carry.

Can people tell from the emphasis we attach to material things whether we have set our affection on things above, or whether we are primarily attached to this world?

Do not make the mistake of attaching yourself to a particular minister rather than to the body of the church itself. The ministry may change—it is healthy and stimulating that it should—but the tenets of the church remain the same

Money represents your time, your energy, your talents, your total personality converted into currency. We usually hold on to it tenaciously, yet it is uncertain in value and we cannot take it into the next world.

1. Your heart starts hurting when you think about him.

If you don't love what you're building, if you're not an avid user yourself, then you will most likely fail even if you're doing everything else right.

Any man who is attached to the senses and to the things of this world, is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes which represent his own passions.

Labour has always won when it secured the centre of British politics, addressed the future and broadened its appeal; and yet despite this obviously being true, we have exhibited an extraordinary attachment to retreating into a narrow part of the left which has always ended in defeat.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.

Don't waste your time on me you're already the voice inside my head

When you look closely at our small giants, one characteristic immediately jumps out at you. Like Righteous Babe, they were all so intimately connected to the place where they were located that it was hard to imagine them being anywhere else.

Hold tenderly that which you cherish, for it is precious and a tight grip may crush it. Do not let the fear of dropping it cause you to hold it too tightly the chances are, it's holding you too.

Amo a liberdade, por isso as coisas que amo deixo-as livres. Se voltarem é porque as conquistei, se não voltarem é porque nunca as tive

Non-possession" does not mean having nothing. It does not mean to live as a penniless beggar. Rather than meaning having nothing, it is the idea of not possessing what we do not need. The more we possess, The more we have attachments.

She closed her eyes and pushed her head into the dog's fur so she wouldn't see what terrified her and filled her with longing at the same time.

True freedom is moving beyond all clinging and attachments, whether mystical or mundane. It is not a moving beyond enjoyment of either, just releasing the tendency to make demands or have expectations regarding one's experience.

The titular counselor buttoned up his collar and replied seriously: "If you live in a state, you should either ch-cherish it or leave it—anything else is either parasitism or mere lackeys' gossip.

Home never appears to us so beautiful as when we are remote from it.