Quotes About Attachment

The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.

Dr. Perry: That's a wonderful example of the glue of love. It is in the small moments, when we feel the other person fully present, fully engaged, connected, and accepting, that we make the most powerful, enduring bonds.

You know why it's hard to be happy—it's because we refuse to LET GO of the things that make us sad.

The only thing that burns in hell is the part of you that won't let go of your life: your memories, your attachments. They burn 'em all away. But they're not punishing you,' he said. 'They're freeing your soul. If your frightened of dying, and your holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. If you've made your peace then the devils are really angels freeing you from the earth.

You're either attaching to your thoughts or inquiring. There's no other choice.

A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It's not our thoughts, but the attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it's true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we've been attaching to, often for years.

If I believe I need something I don't have I'm insane.

How do I know I don't need what I want? I don't have it.

A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It's not our thoughts, but the attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering.

El sufrimiento es una alarma natural que nos alerta de que nos estamos apegando a un pensamiento; cuando no escuchamos, llegamos a aceptar ese sufrimiento como una parte inevitable de la vida, pero no lo es.

El sufrimiento está causado por un apego a una creencia profundamente fijada. Es un estado en el que se produce un apego ciego a algo que uno cree que es verdad.

The Ozarks are a fixture in my mindscape, but I didn't stay local in every respect. I always think of Miles Davis, People who don't change end up like folk musicians playing in museums, local as a motherfucker. I wouldn't describe my attachment to home as ghostly, but long-distanced. My ear has been licked by many other tongues.

Love. I think an angel would fear falling in love with a mortal—someone who could be theirs for only a short time and then would slip away forever.

Love so joyfully and freely given can never be taken away. It is never truly gone.

HOw do you protect a child from heartbreak? All I know is the egg wants to be held all the time, and perhaps if I hold her all the time she will know that she is loved in such a fundamental and profound way that when her heart is broken as an adult, she will not fall apart, will know that she is still loved and lovable.

You choose the end of the summer to fall in love with this guy because secretly, you don't want it to last.

I'm a realist. Just because you had sex once doesn't mean you have to fall in love.

We just have to accept that people are going to stay in our hearts, even when they don't stay in our lives.

It was too hard to fall in love with someone, learn all of their quirks and passions, assume you'd spend the rest of your life with them, and then suddenly have them snatched away forever.

stick together like shit on a shoe.

A little deeper was a fear of falling in love without reservation, of committing herself to someone who might then be snatched from her. Or simply leave her. But if you never really fall in love, you can never really miss it.

When they are away, you will often look for the baby doll, but it is not always there, where it is supposed to be, where you left it. Sometimes The Baby moves it, or she takes it with her, and you have to settle for some other toy. You bring it into the living room and set it between your paws as you sleep. It helps you believe that one day you might be a real mother.

Logan. I wasn't going to lose you, too. I am bound to you in so many ways. Not by words or writing, but by how I feel.

The shadow of greed, attachment is. What you fear to lose, train yourself to release. Let go of fear, and loss cannot harm you.