Quotes About Attachment

Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.

I miss Italy; that's beyond doubt.

The Walking Dead' is my show. I download it from iTunes so that I can watch it the second it comes out. It's a show that I've got really involved in, emotionally.

I can't really live outside Jamaica. I can be away, but only for a while.

I'd really like to go back to New Japan because it feels like home, and I love that place so much.

Japanese people can feel some attachment in what they are making, whether it is a car or a TV or a computer.

My Beijing jersey means more to me than any of them.

I never understood girls who give away jewelry just because it came from an ex. I consider it compensation.

I like Jimmy Stewart!

I feel like part of me will die when John Goodman dies.

I don't join or leave things lightly.

It's not easy to give up something you've had all your life.

What kind of heart does one have to have in order to be able to get rid of these, without regret, as if they were empty beer cans?

You do not chuse where You bestow your Heart. Your Heart bestows Itself, will-you-nill-you, in the Midst of other Business. —

Human beings could be defined as the keepers of a wall of separation dwelling at the threshold between dimensions longing to meet. As long as we insist being attached to the wall, these dimensions will keep on causing destruction and misery in our life. All human pain and troubles are basically due to our stubbornness in preserving this wall.

The pleasure of love is in loving.

A baby is born with a need to be loved–and never outgrows it.

You don't have to have a home to get homesick. You just have to want one. The whole history of your wee planet is nothing but people looking for a home.

Personally, I think, so what? Money's just a thing and things change. That's what I've found. One minute something's really there, right next to you, and you can cuddle up to it. The next it just melts away, like a Hershey's kiss.

Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.

church may be a son-of-a-bitch, but it's my son-of-a-bitch!

If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it ... it possesses you.

Ni siquiera podré dejarla—pensó amargamente—: no, no puedo. Excepto por la puerta de la muerte, soy incapaz de separarme de ella. Pero lo que exista entre nosotros de ahora en adelante será como un valioso jarrón roto al caer al suelo y que ha sido hábilmente reparado, rehecho. Pero, ¡Dios santo, qué aspecto tan lamentable tienen las grietas a la luz del día!

Dog owners who stare into their pet's eyes experience a rapid increase in oxytocin—a neuropeptide involved in attachment and bonding. Exchanging gazes full of empathy and trust, we enjoy a special relationship with the dog.42