Quotes About Attachment

It is frightening to feel that all your happiness is bound up to another person. That without them you don't - you don't particularly want to live'.

Your non attachment to the mundane is your charm. Your attachment to the divine is your beauty.

Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.

Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

My cell phone is my best friend. It's my lifeline to the outside world.

Breastfeeding has been one of the best experiences of my life. I love it! I can't stop! I think I'm going to breastfeed him until he goes to college! I'm hooked!

We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.

Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.

Because to confide a part of your soul to something that can think and move for itself is obviously a very risky business.

Around this world will I be enough?From the liquor stores, to the train stop floors, your filthy room, your drama bluesI am nothing if I'm not with you.

I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.

It's very hard for me to get a new car. It's really hard for me to get a new house. It's really hard for me to move on from the things that give me stability.

Of all the cars I've owned, I'd like still to have the Ferrari, the Porsche, the Alfa, the Lancia, the MG-TCs and the Fiat 850, but mostly I miss my Mini Moke.

Whenever I have bid a hasty goodbye to a loved one, I've always made sure that my record collection was safely stored away in the boot of the car.

I've loved someone since I was seventeen but I can't have him and I can't give him up. So until I can do that no one else will stand a chance.

The underlying addiction is to this dream of lasting pleasure and comfort.

Thich Nhat Hanh says, "It's not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.

WHAT KEEPS US unhappy and stuck in a limited view of reality is our tendency to seek pleasure and avoid pain, to seek security and avoid groundlessness, to seek comfort and avoid discomfort. This is how we keep ourselves enclosed in a cocoon.

We fear losing our illusion of security—that's what makes us anxious.

We spend all our energy and waste our lives trying to re-create these zones of safety, which are always falling apart. That's the essence of samsara—the cycle of suffering that comes from continuing to seek happiness in all the wrong places.

este dogma por el que sientes que el mundo se va a hundir si no actúa como tú quieres es una manera de agresión, aunque la creencia se considere digna o humanitaria

The third noble truth says that suffering ceases when we let go of trying to maintain the huge ME at any cost.

We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.

BY WEAVING our opinions, prejudices, strategies, and emotions into a solid reality, we try to make a big deal out of ourselves, out of our pain, out of our problems. But things are not as solid, predictable, or seamless as they seem.