Quotes About Attachment

She's the first thing in my mind when I wake and the last thing in my mind before I sleep. I've never felt like this before, Zedd, never felt this alone before.

I love her too much to keep her from leaving

Hatred has such powerful emotions attached to it that others take it up out of fear. In that way, hate spreads like panic in a crowd.

Franca smiled to herself for a time before she spoke. "My heart belongs to someone.

I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!

It now seems obvious that the way we're raised has a major impact on what kind of person we turn out to be, but so does who we love.

Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.

Well, I suppose there's no place like home," she said. "No," said Granny Weatherwax, still looking thoughtful. "No. There's a billion places like home. But only one of 'em's where you live.

Well, I suppose there's no place like home,' she said. 'No,' said Granny Weatherwax, still looking thoughtful. 'No, there's a billion places like home. But only one of 'em's where you live.

The hated have no reason to love.

They hadn't read as many stories as Malicia, and were rather more attached to the experience of real life, which is that when someone small and righteous takes on someone big and nasty, he is grilled bread product, very quickly.

No. There's a billion places like home. But only one of 'em's where you live.

memory is the only way home.

If you don't love him, if you don't even care about him, then seeing him now shouldn't be all that painful. Should it?

We're all violent. Especially when it concerns the ones we love. They're intimately connected, love and hate.

If we take something to be the truth, we may cling to it so much that when the truth comes and knocks on our door, we won't want to let it in.

People kill and a re killed because they cling too tightly to their own beliefs and ideologies. [...] The second precept of the Order of Interbeing, founded within the Zen Buddhist tradition during the was in Vietnam, is about letting go of views: Do not think the knowledge you presently possess is changeless, absolute truth. Avoid being narrow-minded and bound to present views. Learn and practice nonattachment from views in order to be open to receive others' viewpoints.

Attachment to the false view of self means belief in the presence of unchanging entities which exist on their own. To break through this false view is to be liberated from every sort of fear, pain, and anxiety.

Everything—including love, hate, and suffering—needs food to continue. If suffering continues, it's because we keep feeding our suffering.

It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.

Emotions are but one category of the many different mental formations we can have. They come, they stay for a while, and then they go. Why should we have to die for an emotion?

The commentaries usually mention nine kinds of internal formations: desire, hatred, pride, ignorance, stubborn views, attachment, doubt, jealousy, and selfishness. Among these, the fundamental internal formation is ignorance, the lack of clear seeing. Ignorance is the raw material out of which the other internal formations are made. Although there are nine internal formations, because "desire" is always listed first, it is often used to represent all the internal formations.

A foolish man clings to wrong views, mocks the teaching of the righteous, and invites ruin and destruction.

Debes saber cómo desembarazarte de las cosas que te hacen sufrir. Puedes alcanzar la felicidad soltando…, soltando incluso tus ideas sobre la felicidad. Quizás creas que para ser feliz debes cumplir determinados requisitos, pero, si observas profundamente, descubrirás que son precisamente esas mismas nociones las que te impiden alcanzar la felicidad y acaban haciéndote sufrir.