Quotes About Attachment

como una especie de droga; te exalta, pero a su vez crea una fuerte dependencia, por lo que es posible convertirse en un gran adicto a él. Y

Al ver lo apegados que estamos a una creencia o idea en concreto, recuperamos algo muy importante: la capacidad de elegir, de decir sí o no una y otra vez.

That's because our agreements are actually like a strong addiction. We are addicted to being the way we are. We are addicted to anger, jealousy, and self-pity.

We were brought into this world as authentic beings, and then we began to practice "who we are" until it became a mastery. At any stage in our adult lives we can unpractice; we can let go of our attachments to an identity . . . and we can be.

As discussed in Chapter 1, there is a human tendency to desire and even artificially create a sense of certainty. It is conceivable that the point here is not that we do not see the problems in our processes, but rather that we do not want to see them because that would undermine the sense of certainty we have about how our factory is working. It would mean that some of our assumptions, some things we have worked for and are attached to, may not be true.

Which doesn't mean, of course, that I'd stopped loving her, that I'd forgotten her, or that her image had paled; on the contrary; in the form of a quiet nostalgia she remained constantly within me; I longed for her as one longs for something definitively lost.

Even at the age of eight she would fall asleep by pressing one hand into the other and making believe she was holding the hand of the man whom she loved, the man of her life. So if in her sleep she pressed Tomas hand with such tenacity, we can understand why: she had been training since childhood.

Even painful memories are ties that bind.

Then there is the third category, the category of people who need to be constantly before the eyes of the person they love. Their situation is a dangerous as the situation in the first category. One day the eyes of their beloved will close, and the room will go dark.

Lucie had been many things to me: a child, a source of comfort, a balm, an escape from myself; she was literaly everything for me but a woman.

los amores son como los imperios: cuando desaparece la idea sobre la cual han sido construidos, perecen ellos también.

She felt happy in Paris, happier than here, but only Prague held her by a secret bond of beauty.

Tutti noi consideriamo impensabile che l'amore della nostra vita possa essere qualcosa di leggero, qualcosa che non ha peso; riteniamo che il nostro amore sia qualcosa che doveva necessariamente essere; che senza di esso la nostra vita non sarebbe stata la nostra vita. Ci sembra che Beethoven, in persona, torvo e scapigliato, suoni al nostro grande amore il suo Es muss sein!

It made her unhappy, and down in the street she asked herself why she should bother to maintain contact with Czechs. What bound her to them? The landscape? If each of them were asked to say what the name of his native country evoked in him, the images that came to mind would be so different as to rule out all possibility of unity

when it's a question of wahre Liebe, true love, the beloved hardly matters.

To love someone out of compassion means not really to love.

Manejava o volante, sentia-se segura de si mesma e bela, e pensava ainda: seria verdadeiramente o amor que a amarrava a Klima ou tão-só o medo de perdê-lo? E se esse medo era de inicio a forma ansiosa do amor, com o passar do tempo não teria o amor (fatigado e esgotado) fugido aos poucos dessa forma? E não teria ficado, no fim de tudo, apenas esse medo, o medo sem amor? E o que restaria se o próprio medo desaparecesse?

We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume our love is what must be, that without it our life would no longer be the same

For the very notion of homeland, with all its emotional power, is bound up with the relative brevity of our life, which allows us too little time to become attached to some other country, to other countries, to other languages.

Parce qu'aimer c'est renoncer à la force.

Amar significa renunciar a la fuerza.

Intuía que, si se reunía con alguna mujer, el recuerdo de Teresa se haría al instante insoportablemente doloroso.

Los recuerdos tristes también lo atan a uno. —¿A qué lo atan? ¿A quedarse en el mismo sitio en el que nació? No entiendo cómo alguien puede hablar de libertad y no liberarse de semejante carga. Es como si el árbol pudiera tener su hogar en un sitio en el que no puede crecer. El hogar del árbol está allí donde encuentra humedad para vivir.

Hän tuntee olevansa niin yksin rakastaessaan koiraa. Surullinen hymy huulillaan hän tuumii että hänen on salattava Kareninia kohtaan tuntemansa rakkaus visummin kuin hänen olisi salattava uskottomuutensa. Ihmiset paheksuvat koiraa kohtaan tunnettua rakkautta.