Quotes About Attachment

I look at Canada like a second home.

The greatest deterrent to giving is the illusion that this earth is our home.

I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on fire is to grab their paintings and then run out.

It is home. The Twin Cities are home and [Ames] is home. It's definitely always a place that's going to be very special to me.

For some people, home is family and their mom's house or their girl or whatever, and I have those experiences as well, but the biggest thing for me is Chicago.

Home is where we tie one end of the thread of life.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weight him down.

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

The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment & every enmity.

I do not hope for what I cannot have! I do not cling to things I cannot keep!

I believe I've put forth a tiny soul-root into Kingsport soil this afternoon. I hope so. I hate to feel transplanted.

I hope you're never happy with anybody but me, and every face you look into, I hope you're haunted by me. Yes, I'm possessive and jealous, at least I speak honestly.

It is just that I don't know how I could live without the hope of her. It would be like learning to live with wooden legs.

If the claws didn't retract, cats would be like Velcro

Humanity's greatest desire is to belong and connect.

Humanity-attached-to-the-task-of-changing-the-world, which is only a single and fragmentary aspect of humanity, will itself be changed in humanity-as-entirety.

The French say that to part is to die a little. To be forgotten too is to die a little. It is to lose some of the links that anchor us to the rest of humanity.

How does a sesame seed stick to a bun? That's magical. There must be some sesame seed glue out there. Either that or they're adhesive on one side. Peel off the backing, place it on the bun.

It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay." - China Sorrows -

Meg and Belch only had eyes for each other. Not in the usual romantic sense.

I've always wanted to have a suitcase handcuffed to my wrist. That's not a full joke there! It's filler.

She glared at me. I didn't care. One word was playing a loop in my heaad: mine.

I never saw a dollar bill cry at anyone's funeral.