Quotes About Attachment

Attachment is the strongest block to realization.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.

I say if you love something, set it in a small cage and pester and smother it with love until it either loves you back or dies.

The dearer a book was to my heart, the more battered and bruised it became.

For he or she that harbours no fear has never truly loved anything. You can only measure true love by the thought and fear of its loss.

Not knowing anything, not searching for anything, understanding that we can't hold on to anything, leaves us with nothing — nothing except our original nature, pure awareness.

I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

You can only lose what you cling to.

Never love something so much that you can't let go of it.

I think that you never fall out of love with somebody, you just let go and move on.

I wanted to say all these things about how you just have to hold on to the things you love and let go of all the rest.

The person who doesn't value you is blocking you from the one who will. Let them go.

It was easy to tell Jamie to move on, be happy with someone else. But she saw now that it would absolutely kill her to see him with another woman.

You're not good for me when you're not mine.

Every time you rip the bandages off, you just open the wound up again. Every time he sees you, it's like tearing off the bandages.

It was over, and I knew that. But you don't love someone for almost two years and then turn it off overnight...

If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it... it possesses you.

I'm really passionate about music - I get really emotionally connected, probably in a weird way.

The music you love when you're a teenager is always going to be the most important to you.

I'm not really a big Springsteen guy. I'll listen to the music, but ... I didn't really get attached to it as much as, like, country artists. That's really who I listen to.

The loss of music is very painful, and I don't revisit stuff unless there is a solid reason to do it.

At home, we don't listen to our music-we listen to other people's music. It keeps you attached to the show business world.