Quotes About Attachment

A. J. does not particularly care for writers . . . . He tries to avoid meeting the ones who've written books he loves for fear that they will ruin their books for him.

No somos las cosas que acumulamos, adquirimos, leemos. Durante el tiempo que nos es dado vivir, somos solo amor. Las cosas que hemos amado. Las personas que hemos amado. Eso, es lo que realmente perdura.

Lo más irritante del amor es que, cuando a una persona le importa algo, descubre que tiene que empezar a importarle todo.

You'll meet someone. I did." "Fuck you. I like you. I'm used to you. You are the one, you asshole. I can't meet someone new." He

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No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.

We attach ourselves to our familiar miseries, an easier act than striking out for the territory. This is a sad truth, though not insurmountable: Despair and fear do not disappear overnight when the conditions that wrought them have changed.

God is love and love is memory, and memory is a bruise or a warmth or a grocery list you cannot bear to throw away.

She asks why I like her. Might as well ask Why I breathe. Maybe tomorrow I won't Breathe or like her Anymore. Maybe tomorrow the tides Will stop. Maybe tomorrow will bring No more rainbows. Maybe tomorrow She will stop Asking useless questions.

We look to our mates, to our children, to money or success, hoping they will extend the protection of the caregivers from our childhood.

Our recent research indicates that an absence of warmth, acceptance, and support characterizes the early family life of many hoarders, perhaps leading them to form strong emotional attachments to possessions.

It is difficult suddenly to lay aside a long-cherished love.

Gaius Valerius Catullus

Fear, anger, grief, or despair only exists when linked to a story! Yes, this is an amazing, simple, yet profound discovery. It is huge! You can actually recognize that what you are running away from does not, in truth, finally exist, and what you are running toward is already always here.

For you, only life is of value, you have a lingering attachment to it, it continues to be interesting because there are still things to discover and amaze you. It is only life that can excite you. That is just how it is with you, isn't it?

You've lived in the city for a long time and need to feel that you have a hometown.

Being the great love doesn't mean being the love who lasts.

People and their rituals. They cling to things so hard sometimes.

If you feel you don't have enough, you hold on to things," he said. "But if you feel you have enough, you let go of things.

I didn't want to admit that I still slept with a stuffed animal. But I did. I loved that dog.

If you feel you don't have enough, you hold on to things. But if you feel you have enough, you let go of things.

True love cannot begin until the "in love" experience has run it's course.

The sentiment underlying this local possessiveness of distinctive crops, foods, and customs is known in Italy as campanilismo . It is somewhat negatively defined in dictionaries as 'an excessive attraction to one's own homeland or birthplace.' As it is derived from the word for bell, campana , a more literal definition might be 'belief or faith in what lies within earshot of the village bell.

Every returning New Yorker asks the question: Is this still my city? I have a ready answer, cloaked in obstinate despair: It is. And if it's not, I will love it all the more. I will love it to the point where it becomes mine again.