Quotes About Attachment

Don't you understand that wanting does not belong here, because that is what wounds, and there is never an end to it.

When you gamble for tiles, you are skillful. When you gamble for your belt buckle, you begin to hesitate; and when you gamble for gold, you get confused. Your skill is the same, but you get cautious because you value something outside yourself. When you do this you become awkward inside." Lieh Tzu, Chapter 2

Una volta acquisiti dalla tua persona, marcati dal tuo possesso gli oggetti non hanno più l'aria di essere lì per caso, assumono un significato come parti di un discorso, d'una memoria fatta di segnali e emblemi. Sei possessiva? [...] Sei possessiva verso te stessa, ti attacchi ai segni in cui identifichi qualcosa di te, temendo di perderti con loro.

I feel the jealousy of my books, which would like to be read the way she reads.

La ciudad, para el que pasa sin entrar, es una, y otra para el que está preso de ella y no sale; una es la ciudad a la que se llega la primera vez, otra la que se deja para no volver; cada una merece un nombre diferente; quizá de Irene he hablado ya bajo otros nombres; quizá no he hablado sino de Irene.

Perhaps for you, each book becomes identified with your reading of it at any given moment, once and for all. And as you preserve them in your memory, so you like keeping them near you.

Your relationship with objects is selective, personal; only the things you feel yours become yours: it is a relationship with the physicality of things, not with an intellectual or affective idea that takes the place of seeing them and touching them.

Visto che non gli era permesso di cercare Angiolina, il meglio che gli restava da fare era d'attaccarsi a chi nel suo pensiero era perennemente legato a lei.

No man can lose what he never had.

I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I've left schools and places I didn't even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don't care if it's a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't you feel even worse.

The child is alone only in the presence of someone.

I once said: 'there is no such thing as an infant' meaning, of course, that wherever one finds an infant one finds maternal care, and without maternal care there would be no infant.

To leave a book is like leaving the better part of oneself. To pass from the soft and airy arcades of the mind to the demands of a graceless body always grasping for one thing or another is in any case a surrender:

Change is the basis of human life, so don't attach yourself to birth or death, continuation or discontinuation. Just live right in the middle of the flow of change, where there is nothing to hold on to. How do you do this? Just be present and devote yourself to doing something. This is the simple practice of Zen.

and a camel named Toe he couldn't bear to part with

A person, enchanted by something delightful, clings to it out of attachment. He is bound to be afflicted, even by a pain as small as a sesame seed.

All afflictions and deficiencies of life originate from the mind's attachment and clinging.

E se me apaixonar perdidamente por ele, e mesmo assim ele vá embora daqui?) Nesse caso, você vai recolher os seus cacos, juntá-los novamente e prosseguir com sua vida. Mas, pelo menos , pode saber saber como é amar alguém de verdade.

America I love you you're like a sweetheart to me

You know when you've found it that's something I've learned, cause you feel it when they take it away.

Her husband's foot touches hers, she pulls her foot away. Terrible to flinch from what you once, briefly, loved, or thought you did, or wanted to think you did. But are shackled to, regardless, for life.

But even when the words are repeated, they don't seem attached to the world. No. That can't be true. That doesn't make sense. Only last night he. That doesn't fit. No. No, she says. But refusal only works on other people, on fate it has no effect.

My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and - the guy told me it was a really good deal - made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch.

Model a manhood of emotional attachment.