Quotes About Attachment

Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions

What an illusion Mahamaya has conjured up! Here is this infinite world, and what one claims as his possession will be left behind at death. Still men cannot understand this simple truth.

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country.

It is very difficult also to sacrifice one's suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.

How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her?

A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.

Wouldnt it be nice to be like men and get notches in your belt... and not get emotionally involved?

It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.

Out in the ocean, a rope is put around the man's neck. The other end of the rope is attached to an old jukebox and it is thrown overboard. The man invariably follows.

There is no such thing as an ideal man. The ideal man is the man you love at the moment.

When a man loves a woman, can't keep his mind on nothing else. He'd trade the world for the good thing he's found.

It's a woman's right to know a man's intentions upfront. Because, once you get emotionally attached to a man and you sleep with him, it's too late.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.

Body parts that unfortunately found themselves on the wrong side of the rift may seem to remain attached. Intense GLAAMR and general disorientation may hide their misshapen form. Many victims will be unwilling to believe in the reality of what has happened to them. The temptation may be strong to leave these attached and hope for the best. Don't do it! Think

He was emotionally worn out from wondering what she really thought of him, and confused by the fact that he cared so deeply about her opinion. And she, maybe, was beginning to think that if Hiro was so convinced in his own mind that he was unworthy of her, maybe he knew something she didn't. Hiro

Why any one place should forever hold enchantment for the reason you are born there is a mystery. But like cats and birds we are pussy-footed and pigeon-toed and our footsteps lead toward home.… The Eskimo longs for his northern bleakness and his ice hut, the cowboy dreams of the wide open towns and prairies of the west, the old salt is looking out to sea Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and down in the hold of many ships are dead Chinamen's bones going home to China.

When fear is taken from you, all else can be taken from you and you will not be angry.

For it is the nature of people to love, then destroy, then love again that which they value most.

This means simply that you no longer need the things of your outside world. "Not needing" is a great freedom. It frees you, first, from fear: fear that there is something you won't have; fear that there is something you have that you will lose; and fear that without a certain thing, you won't be happy.

Love that is continually repressed becomes possessiveness, a very unnatural emotion.

The mother I'm completely over but the daughter I love to death. The mother I'd like to love to death." "Heh." "Don't do me any favors; only laugh if it's funny." "It is!