Quotes About Attachment

Why be so attached to what we are bound to lose anyway?

También sabía que amaría a aquella niña durante toda su existencia, que ese amanecer perduraría en su recuerdo y que sería lo último que vería en el momento de morir. Ese

My Nini wanted to get another dog, as much like Daisy as possible, but my Popo said that it was not a question of replacing her, but of trying to live without her. "I can't, Popo. I loved her so much!" I sobbed inconsolably. "That affection is inside you, Maya, not in Daisy. You can give it to other animals, and what's left over you can give to me

sino la fuerza adhesiva del amor.

no se fue con Pedro Tercero simplemente porque no le alcanzaba el amor

Al Califa de Bagdad ke hubiera gustado saber que las mujeres queremos amor antes que nada. Tenemos algo raro en el cerebro, una especie de tumor, que nos impulsa al amor. No podemos vivir sin amor. Por amor aguantamos a nuestros críos y a los hombres.

Clinging to the creature developing in her womb, she tried to compensate for the loneliness of a woman who has chosen badly in love' - Paula, p16

There are parts of New Zealand that I absolutely fell in love with that I will miss going back to, but I kind of think that is the part that can continue and will continue on. I don't imagine I'll stop going back to New Zealand, because I feel part of the fabric there, really.

Every time we go to New Zealand, it gets harder to leave. Everyone's always treated us like we're at home.

I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.

Here it is, 2011, and I feel zero shame when I tell you I would like to marry my smartphone. It is a handful of pure delight.

You kind of just float inside of your sleeping bag and you attach your sleeping bag to the wall. Then our arms kind of float up. So, we look a little bit like zombies.

I love Irvine. That's my 'hood. I went to USC and used to come home every weekend. It's in my comfort zone.

We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have moldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living.

We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

I can generally bear the separation, but I don't like the leave-taking.

When you are in love with someone you want to be near him all the time, except when you are out buying things and charging them to him.

Mothers can get weaned as well as babies.

Mother love has been much maligned. An over mothered boy may go through life expecting each new woman to love him the way his mother did. Her love may make any other love seem inadequate. But an unloved boy would be even more likely to idealize love. I don't think it's possible for a mother or father to love a child too much.

So many of us define ourselves by what we have, what we wear, what kind of house we live in, and what kind of car we drive ... if you think of yourself as the woman in the Cartier watch and the Hermes scarf, a house fire will destroy not only your possessions but your self.

Actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

Action, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love their cow-for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort.