Quotes About Attachment

Happiness can only be found within, by breaking attachments to external things and cultivating an attitude of acceptance.

loved any man. She was committed but never owned. And when it no longer felt right, or got too close, she moved on. Her aloofness was a challenge to most men, and to Jean-Louis. They wanted to possess her and to

excuse never to get attached to anyone or tied down, except to my work. It would be a constant tug-of-war to be a married butler, or one with children. I know some people do it now, and live out

bag on a strap over her shoulder that she had owned since she was nineteen. But somehow

Kids have strange loyalties.

but you never know with kids. They have strange loyalties for odd reasons

It's so messed up how little control we have over whether we want somebody.

Your love interest becomes the most important thing to you. And if the love is requited, it's the biggest high in the universe, and you'd be fine never being with anyone else. But if this person doesn't want you back, well, you pretty much wish you were dead . . . or that that person dies miserable.

I didn't realize it was possible to obsess over a girl as much as you can over a boy.

The more I hurt, the more I knew I loved, and that felt like a good thing. So that I'm letting go of the pain means I'm also letting go of the love.

I don't suppose you kept anything of hers, did you? Such as? A lock of hair, a knife which was dear to her, a scrap of her clothes? Vampires do not indulge in such foolishness, he said gruffly. They should, Evanna sighed.

Siento perderte, y quiero que sepas que no te tendría más cariño si fueras hijo mío. Pero, compréndelo, si se pierde un hijo, siempre es posible tener otro; en cambio, sólo existe un halcón maltés.

Black Stache had no love for the Queen, no love for women of any sort, except for his ma. He had a real soft spot for his ma, and was truly sorry for the time he'd marooned her.

I was clinging to this tree so passionately that I might very well have committed an act of photosynthesis with it.

Vancouver was like a long kiss from a ponytailed girl. I left a piece of myself there. Everybody does the first time.

Money is ephemeral, moving from person to person, it's a tool. Don't let it get into your heart or soul.

It means that money is ephemeral, moving from person to person," Hamood said. "It's a tool. Don't let it get into your heart or your soul." Mokhtar spent a year with Hamood

The first two ultimate rules of being a foster child that I had learned while at Aunt Mary's were never to become too attached to anyone and never to take someone's home for granted.

The problem is . . . I love you, Will Robie. More than I've loved anyone. And that's why you'll never be able to help me through this.

When you didn't have much, you tended to keep what you had.

Her definition of love was obligation and guilt.

It's not good to leave things of value behind. They nag at the mind and dis-tract one from the business at hand.

Readers often become fans of a genre after discovering one defining work in that genre.

Everything I've ever let go of has claw marks on it. (on the wall of a bedroom at a recovery house for alcoholics and drug addicts)