Quotes About Attachment

The French differentiate between loving and liking this way: You like because of; you love in spite of.

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

Saying of the Prophet Objects It is your attachment to objects which make you blind and deaf.

Sirri al-Siqati, que murió en 867 de la era cristiana, dijo: La verdadera sabiduría es el no apego al yo y la devoción a la verdad.

Dicho del Profeta Objetos Es tu apego a los objetos lo que te hace ciego y sordo.

Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.

To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.

Entregamos nuestra vida a las cosas y luego nos sorprendemos de haberla perdido

if it happens that the soul is attached or inclined to a thing inordinately, that one should move himself, putting forth all his strength, to come to the contrary of what he is wrongly drawn to.

When we are aware that we are eternal beings, when we become enlightened to the fact that our life is something eternal that cannot be harmed by anything, then we have no attachments to the past of anxiety about the future and are able to focus on the present moment the now.

We are currently too attached to our worldly toys, rather than to the lessons our playing could impart to further the maturity of our collective soul.

He stared at her for a long moment. I would feel terrible if something ever happened to you. You are becoming important to me.

I'm not a sucker for happily ever afters, but if these two characters don't get theirs I might climb inside this e-reader and lock them both inside that damn garage forever.

The fact is…I'm in love with you, and I have been for some time.

I am as wrapped up in her as a vine that clings to a tree seeking for sustenance. She's tied me to her for eternity. She's my home. She's my reason for being. To win and hold her heart is my only purpose.

My end will come when he is able to live without me.

I once bought an old car back after I sold it because I missed it so much and I had forgotten that it never ran. It was a British racing car. You know, because I just wanted it back. I could only remember what was good about it.

I am pained that you should say so, my lady. I will be sorry to be parted from you.

That's a man's vital spot, the helpless thing he loves. ("Jane Brown's Body")

But there are three things in this world you can't shrug off: death, taxes – and a girl who loves you.

When you have an uneasy feeling that happiness is beginning to slip through your fingers you hang on as tightly as you can; you don't give it an added push away from you.

Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.

From the very second he had asked her out, Carly knew she would never love anyone the way she loved him.

There are so many of us now that we threaten to devour the world with our touching, starting with the things we adore most. At the same time, we obviously yearn for contact, and I fear what would happen if we were cut off from a distinctive, on-the-ground relationship with the past.