Quotes About Attachment

But then on meeting you, I felt I should be with you always.

Uno debe estar donde está su corazón.

Switching costs can be psychological, too – a result of brand loyalty.

What is love, for God's sake, if not the most distilled obsession?

Glamour-hounds and donor-hogs they may be but he loved them.

It's too bad…I wouldn't have minded being your prisoner a while longer. Goodbye…Rangiku. I'm sorry.

Whatever people gave you from their overflowing hearts they remembered, and expected you to remember, forever.

keeps him in her

People born in New Orleans always go back

The problem here, Gwen, is that the more desperate you are to achieve financial success and the tighter you hold on to what you've got, the greater your chances of losing it. Money's like love in that respect.

Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words "make" and "stay" become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.

He was as nervous as a praying mantis at an atheists' picnic, but he bore down gently, intensifying his concentration, letting go of his attachment to gravity.

The mystics say that as soon as you give it up, you can have it. That may be true, but who wants it when you don't want it.

Love holds on to it's bad habits. - My Heart Is Not A Poodle

By identifying with our desires and taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires.

Was she simply too shallow to suffer indefinitely, or was she too wise to become attached to her suffering, too feisty to permit it to rule her life? She voted for wise and feisty, and walked on, kicking leaves.

I fell in love with literature and stayed lovesick all my life.

It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.

Nobody gave you to me. Nobody said that's the one for you. I picked you out. Wrong time, yep, and doing wrong by my wife. But the picking out, the choosing. Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it. I saw you and made up my mind. My mind. And I made up my mind to follow you too.

It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.

How come it can't fly no better than a chicken? Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

When they fall in love with a city, it is for forever and it is like forever.

Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had settled on to love. The best thing, he knew, was to love just a little bit; everything, just a little bit, so when they brok its back, or shoved it in a croaker sack, well, maybe you'd have a little love left over for the next one.

After all that carryin' on just gettin' him out and keepin' him alive he wanted to crawl back in my womb and well...I ain't got the room no more even if he could do it. There wasn't space for him in my womb (71).