Quotes About Attachment

if he understood, at some level, that to love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able to protect what is most valuable to you.

love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able to protect what is most valuable to you.

Da parte sua, Saeed avrebbe voluto poter fare qualcosa per Nadia, poterla proteggere da quel che li aspettava, per quanto, a un certo livello, capisse che amare significa accettare che inevitabilmente un giorno non riuscirai a proteggere quel che hai di più prezioso.

He was drawn to people from their country, both in the labour camp and online. It seemed to Nadia that the further they moved from the city of their birth, through space and through time, the more he sought to strengthen his connection to it, tying ropes to the air of an era that for her was unambiguously gone.

Saeed for his part wished he could do something for Nadia, could protect her from what would come, even if he understood, at some level, that to love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able to protect what is most valuable to you.

that to love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able to protect what is most valuable to you.

Suffice to say that theirs had been an unusual love, with such a degree of commingling of identities that when Chris died, erica felt she had lost herself; even now she did not know if she could be found p.104

But would I have chosen to be Paul? I'd miss Will too much, the feel of his shins.

The philosophy of the Bhagavad-gita holds that we don't actually own anything – that our nation, cars, homes, and our families ultimately belong to God. Even our own senses don't belong to us, according to the Gita.

Those who linger on and those all too swiftly gone live as dewdrops, all, and it is a foolish thing to set one's heart on their world.

I don't know why I thought of Dottie as my friend but I did. I believe she thought the same way about me although she really didn't like me. In those days, among the people I mixed with, one had friends almost by predestination. There they were, like your winter coat and your meagre luggage. You didn't think of discarding them just because you didn't altogether like them.

We all appear to ourselves frustrated in our old age...because we cling to everything so much. But in reality we are still fulfilling our lives.

In those days, among the people I mixed with, one had friends almost by predestination. There they were, like your winter coat and your meagre luggage. You didn't think of discarding them just because you didn't altogether like them.

And he was forever hers. No matter whom he loved, or was loved by, the shadow of her always remained.

I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I've lost.

It isn't healthy to care for someone who can never love you back.

The bestowing of chrysanthemums indicates familial attachment and, by implication, affection.

There is nothing in this world that I want or need, but you.

Everyone says you love a Dragon-born girl differently as she gets older; you can't help it, knowing you so easily might lose her.

He is mine, too.

I didn't really understand what mothers were, because mine was in a tree, but I knew they were very good things and you were very angry and sad if you lost them.

I know i'm making her sound like something out of a story. But it was the other way around. When my mother told me stories about the spinning princess or the brave goose-girl or the river-maiden, in my head I imagined them all a little like Kasia; that was how I thought of her. And I wasn't old enough to be wise, so I loved her more, not less, because I knew she would be taken from me soon.

You learn to feel it less, child; or you learn to love other things.

And I wasn't old enough to be wise, so I loved her more, not less, because I knew she would be taken from me soon. She