Quotes About Attachment

You make me miserable. You really do, I want you to know that. Much as I love you, much as I need you, much as I can't exist without you, you make me miserable.

I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.

I know this simple fact to be true, for I myself have abandoned people who did not want me to go, and I myself have been abandoned by those whom I begged to stay.

He's sensitive and I don't want him to break his heart over somebody who doesn't care about him.

True power arises in knowing what you want, knowing what you don't want, expressing it clearly and lovingly without attachment to the outcome.

The land wants you here. I want you here," you called. "Don't you care about that at all?

I'll just love you whether you want me to or not.

She doesn't want me to own her. (Dante) Well, the Simi doesn't understand that. Owning's not so bad. I own akri and he kind of fun. (Simi)

We never want Him. We say, "Lord, give me a fine house." We want the house, not Him. "Give me health! Save me from this difficulty!" When a man wants nothing but Him, [he gets Him].

I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. He didn't want to burn my photo or toss it away, but he didn't want to look at me anymore, either.

Romance dies hard, because its very nature is to want to live.

For me, my films have already aged. When they're finished, I don't want to watch them. Of course, I feel protective, but I try not to attach myself to these stories.

The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.

It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible.

I loved living in London, and I didn't want to leave.

My roles are in some way like children to me. You don't ever really want to scrape one off your shoe.

I'll oil wells love you. I'll oil wells care. I'll oil wells need you. I want you oil wells dear.

God doesn't want all of us to relinquish all of our material possessions.

Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.

We humans do not understand compassion. In each moment of our lives, we betray it. Aye, we know of its worth, yet in knowing we then attach to it a value, we guard the giving of it, believing it must be earned. T'lan Imass. Compassion is priceless

The more you dream of one particular and pleasing thing, Ralata, the quicker it palls. The edges get worn down, the lustre fades. To leave such obsessions behind, dream of them often.

But blood is the chain that can never break. (...) And, though we leave the house of our birth, it never leaves us.

Why do we cling to what we lose while we ignore what we still hold?

George Will's equally serviceable formula was "He does not want to return to the past; he wants to return to the past's way of facing the future." Reagan's variety of future-oriented optimism rooted in historical attachment has become almost unrecognizable in the age of a postmodernism that is openly contemptuous of history and historical experience.