Quotes About Attachment

Where your treasure is, there also will be your heart.

If you're asking me if I like your company, the answer is yes. If, on the other hand, you're asking me if I could live without you, the answer is also yes.

Never fall in love. Love is a poison. Once you fall in love, you lose control over your life --- your heart and mind belong to someone else. Your existence is threatened. You start to do everything to hold on to your loved one and lose all sense of danger. Love, that inexplicable and dangerous thing, sweeps everything you are form the face of the earth and, in its place, leaves only what your beloved wants you to be. - Madame Guimet

i am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. that is the true experience of freedom:having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

That the truest experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

It hurt when I lost each the various men I fell in love with. Now, though, I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love.

No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone

A love that asks for nothing and gives nothing in return; it is simply there. I will never be yours and you will never be mine; nevertheless, I can honestly say: I love you.

No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

Finally, he explained to me that suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we imagine we want to be loved, and not in the way that love should manifest itself-free and untrammeled , guiding us with its force and driving us on.

In the words of a Persian sage: love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured.

Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down a wonderful opportunity simply because we don't know what to do with it.

No one loses anyone because no one owns anyone. That is true experience of freedom; having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

Now, though, I am convinces that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

He tried to deal with the concept of love as distinct from possession, and couldn't separate them.

The great craziness of men and women is precisely that: love.

suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we want to be loved.

Where your treasure is, there also will be your heart, the alchemist had told him.

That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

He recognized that he was feeling something he had never experienced before : the desire to live in one place forever. With the girl with the raven hair his days would never be the same again

All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.

Sometimes love carries us into the abyss, taking with us -- to make matters worse -- the people we love.

He recognized that he was feeling something he head never experienced before: the desire to live in one place forever.