Quotes About Attachment

What defines someone's music taste is their teens and early 20s. It's that combination of your sexual awakening and the music of the time, it fixes you forever.

People left. They always did. There was no use getting his heart mixed up in something that was guaranteed to hurt.

When human women are said to be traps that lead to the downfall of men, Buddhist philosophers and psychologists would insist that it is not women per se that endanger men but rather women as they appear to deluded men.

Funny how you can get used to not having things you thought you couldn't live without.

Nothing is excluded and the unique nature of every aspect of creation is celebrated. This is how oneness works when it is not just a concept but a living presence. Many patterns and attachments that we think are essential to life will fall away, just as our present structures of power will become redundant. And the wonder of this change is that it need not be gradual, because it belongs to the now. Any real change is always a miracle - it happens through the grace of God.

She didn't want to encourage me by asking questions. She didn't want me to go deeper into that other world. She worried she would lose her Matilda to Victorian England.

Chocolate may be cheaper than a psychiatrist, but the latter doesn't generally adhere to your ass for the rest of your natural life.

In my mind I first felt like, Oh, I'll be back to work right after the babies are born. But then you don't want to. Even now, it's very difficult for me to leave them in the morning. It just tortures me. I'm like, It's been hours; are they wondering where I am? Do they know that I love them so much and I'm thinking only about them?

You don't change what you love or you never loved it to begin with.

LUCIFER: I pity thee who lovest what must perish. CAIN: And I thee who lov'st nothing

wonder if something like that can leave a DNA fingerprint of sorts. Something that creates a physical longing in one for a place in order to feel whole.

E pensou o mesmo naquele momento, porque os sentimentos perturbadores permaneciam ali, sob o bolso do peito do colete, onde ele guardava um toco de lápis que ela havia deixado para trás na noite anterior.

people procrastinate or self-sabotage as a way to stave off change — even positive change — because they're reluctant to give something up without knowing what they'll get in its place.

They wish they could stay longer but don't know how to say this directly. Acknowledging their attachment makes them feel too vulnerable.

underneath the old mother-daughter frustration was not a wish for her to go away but a longing for her to stay forever?

If, however, your childhood ruptures didn't come with loving repairs, it will take some practice for you to tolerate the ruptures, to stop believing that every rupture signals the end, and to trust that even if a relationship doesn't work out, you will survive that rupture too.

It was as close as I had ever come to having power over someone, and I equated it with love.

Familiarity, not survival, is the strongest drive in human beings.

She was like a drug. The most addicting kind, and he had a problem—he was pretty sure that she was developing feelings for him. He had no idea what to do with that, or with is own feelings, which were definitely getting in his way. This whole no emotional attachment thing had gone straight to shit. Because Mallory Quinn was emotionally attached to every person she ever met, and she had a way of making that contagious. He craved contact with her in a way that he wasn't experienced with.

You're taking a stray cat but leaving behind your man?" Colbie's heart twisted. Her man… "He doesn't fit into the cat carrier.

She kissed him, and then kept at it, kissing hello and goodbye and just because, because she knew this was all going to stop soon.

I've never been so tied to a place, to a person. Until you. But, she said when his eyes began to shutter, it's the way I want it. I want to be tied to you. He studied her for a long moment and then his lips curved. You're picturing it, aren't you, she said drily. Me tied. To my bed, he said on a low laugh. Yeah, a little bit. But mostly I'm liking knowing that you're tied to my heart.

So lost in her he couldn't remember his own name. Only hers…

Nothing wrong with holding on to good memories, he said quietly. I've held on to mine.