Quotes About Attachment

I don't buy diamonds, I don't buy cars, but I enjoy travelling. I'm not a very possessive person as far as things go.

I am most attached to my mother, who always travels with me when I am on an outdoor location or abroad. She is my friend, who I share everything with.

I think the philosophy that you have to have if you travel frequently is, stuff is just stuff. Even if it has some sentimental or family connection, if you lose it in the world, it's still just a thing, and I think if you don't have that attitude, you will get incredibly stressed out and not enjoy your travels.

My parents weren't very good at keeping things, which is why I treasure my own sons' work so much now - I don't want to lose anything.

I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way.

We should seek to love our lives and live fully, but not to extend them indefinitely. We should love our children exuberantly, but not cling to them or curtail their freedoms. We should treasure the material world without seeking to own and control it.

I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.

If I knew I could never come back to Ireland, to England, I think I'd fall off the tree.

I am a romantic. I want to cry when I throw out my Christmas tree, and I have a lot of feelings about magic and fantasy.

My mother and I naturally have a tremendous bond. There's, like, a bond that you just can't break with us.

I'm still tremendously proud of 'Crimson Petal.' I'm still very emotionally involved with these characters. I still care about them.

Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent.

But you can not buy what doesn't belong to you.

To avoid the pain of loss, give up attachment.

As a rule, the human mind gets attached to possessions very firmly. They don't want to lose anything. They hold on to the little possession and can't see the big possibilities.

Question is not whom I am going to love, but question is whom I am going not to love.

Love is a longing to belong, to be beloved.

It takes a minute to love but eternity to forget.

If you love someone, unknowingly, you become beloved.

I am yours but you are free of mine.My love is yours but I don't want any return

I am addicted to love.Love is my beloved drug.

Love is a prison of life where we always like to get in and never want to get out.

It is very easy to fall in the ocean of love and feel great, but it's difficult to get out of the river of love and forget.

You can fall in love but can't escape love alive.