Quotes About Attachment

Love is the ability to live your life with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.

That's what happens when you're angry at people. You make them part of your life." —Garrison Keillor In

Usually, they have to attach a tentacle to someone else before detaching all the tentacles from their current object.

People who refuse to let go often make small requests that appear reasonable, like Tommy's letter of reference, though the real purpose of such requests is to cement attachment or gain new reasons for contact.

I buried a nickel under the porch when I was 8, she said, but one day my grandma died & they sold the house & I never got to go back for it. A nickel used to mean something, I said. She nodded. It still does, she said & then she started to cry.

Most of the world's religions serve only to strengthen attachments to false concepts such as self and other, life and death, heaven and earth, and so on.

That's Kline," he said. "We know and love him. He's like a person to us.

I love you Aggie… more than chocolate biscuits.

Enoch did not care about the rebellion. He did not care about the gods. He did not care about anything anymore. His Edna was gone. Now, only his son Methuselah kept him anchored to this earth.

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The more you care about someone, the more likely it is that your eventual parting of ways will be as sudden as it is baffling.

The small objects belonging to the dead became part of the household. I did not feel that it was theft as their owners hadn't really gone away.

When he did that, I didn't hate him anymore, I really didn't, and maybe this is why people do so many hateful things to the people that who love them: because it's so easy to stop hating someone if you've already started loving them.

Some of the books I'd read had told me that love is fleeting; some of the other books I'd read had told me that love is eternal. But they were wrong. Love isn't either of those things. Love is not wanting the thing you love to ever end.

Maybe that's the problem with being someplace beautiful: it makes it impossible to live anywhere else that's not.

Love is not wanting the thing you love to ever end.

Love is not wanting the thing you love to ever end. I was in love with A Fan's Notes, just like my dad was. And I was in love with my dad, just like I was in love with A Fan's Notes. I wanted both of them to last forever.

Some things can never be left behind.

You killed my Booka," she hissed. "I loved my Booka.

Anything was better than to be loved for one's things.

Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can't hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they've touched you, if they're inside you, then they're still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.

Chains," said the Tinker, coming up behind her. "They bind us, whether we want them to or not. But a heart without chains would have nothing to hold it, might simply blow away.

What happened to you as an infant has a profound impact on this capacity to love and be loved.

All of us tend to gravitate to the familiar, even when the familiar is unhealthy or destructive. We are drawn to what we were raised with.