Quotes About Attachment

This attachment of Love to God is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.

The idea is, when a man receives a gift from another, his heart becomes impure, he becomes low, he loses his independence, he becomes bound and attached.

We are allowed to worship him. Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment

Then he sees that this attachment is all delusion.

we have to bear the result of our own actions because we attach ourselves to them. ...

For it is the body that drags us down. It is attachment, identification, which makes us miserable. That is the secret: To think that I am the spirit and not the body, and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but a series of paintings — scenes on a canvas — of which I am the witness.

Everybody thought I was crazy. They thought I should take the money and run. But there was just something special about being a senior at Chapel Hill. I just couldn't leave.

I'm somewhat of a hoarder. I keep everything.

When you work somewhere and you feel comfortable, you don't want to leave. You want to stay there forever.

Newcastle is in my heart, and even if I maybe go somewhere, Newcastle will be in my heart.

It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died, she made just one request: that a picture of me be put into her casket. So somewhere in England, I'm in a casket.

There is a certain inescapable attachment. If you are born somewhere and circumstances don't take you away from it, then you grow up and remain within it.

I enjoyed being in California for a while. But that's the thing about London: you can't really shake it. I've always had the impression when I was in L.A. for long periods of time that simultaneously my life was happening somewhere else, and I'm missing it.

I'm not really emotionally dependant on anybody except my son, my daughter-in-law, and my grandchildren. But a partner... I haven't felt like that for so many years, I don't really remember what it was like.

My first son didn't really take a bottle, and I didn't like giving bottles.

I'm really a family girl. My mom's like, 'As soon as you're on your own, we're going to move back to Indiana.' Well, that might be when I'm 26.

I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.

People become so deeply attached to the sound of one period that they blow a fuse when you move on. I've heard people complain bitterly about recordings they haven't even heard.

Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma.

I belong in America more than South Africa. I can't remember the feeling of living there anymore. It's like it was in another life. That's sad in a way. It is my country. It's where I grew up. You don't know what it's like to have these negative feelings about your homeland. There are roots you can't escape.

I have a relationship with the southern hemisphere that's a really good one. I love it there.

I'm from the Southwest, and in the Southwest of France, you're not supposed to love Paris.

We, the French, are viscerally attached to our laicite, our sovereignty, our independence, our values. The world knows that when France is attacked, it is liberty that is dealt a blow.

It's just so nice when your pet isn't all needy. I need a lot of space, so dogs suffocate me.