Quotes About Attachment

When you are unhappy, discover what you are clinging to and let it go.

How could people let go of their old things, when each told a part of their story? Old things were a literature, a narrative.

At a time when he really needed to let go, he was holding on. To Lace. To his stuff. Let go, let God. Come on, man.

Hebt u nog ouwe spulletjes? Alleen mezelf.

Jane Austen] knew that it was better to remain a spinster, with a limited income and no permanent home, than to marry without the deepest emotional attachment.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.

Los lugares que no te funcionan son mucho más difíciles de abandonar".

I know I shouldn't be writing haiku now, so close to my death. But poetry is all I've thought of for over fifty years. When I sleep, I dream about hurrying down a road under morning clouds or evening mist. When I awaken I'm captivated by the mountain stream's interesting sounds or the calls of wild birds. Buddha called such attachment wrong, and of this I am guilty. But I cannot forget the haiku that have filled my life.

Every pocket I put you in had its hole.

The more we cling to the belief in a self, the more pain and alienation we feel.

there is nothing more important you can give your little one than a strong relationship with you

I came back to work when my children were two months old. At that early age, they seem to have little awareness of anybody but their Raggedy Ann dolls, so it wasn't a matter of them missing me. I was missing them.

He's gorgeous because he's mine, but he won't be mine for long. Our children become part of the world so fast, and it's our job to prepare them, transition them, our job to love them and gracefully step back and let them go….

it's much more interesting to try and understand what binds two people together. why we stay with each other is much more of a mystery than why we don't.

the doctor] clicked by mistake on the notes of a patient she'd got to know well - too well. The unfortunate Mrs. Swayne had become unhealthily doctor-dependent. But had she grasped the nettle? Had she actually finally and against all predictions left the country?

Blood may be thicker than water, but it is still sticky, unpleasant, and generally nauseating.

It's such a liability to love another person.

Human nature is such that when we are suddenly taken up by someone whom we consider superior and admirable, we accept his attentions calmly, whereas when we are dropped we cannot rest until we feel we have got to the bottom of the person's profound irrationality.

As far as giving up Frank, we have only a few months more with him before he has to go to monkey college anyway." "That's probably where you'll end up going to school too.

The only things you can truly love after such a short time are ice cream flavors and comfortable shoes.

Friendship that is characterized by thoughtful passion ensures that a friend does not lose her Self in the heightened awareness of and attachment to another woman.

Books are like a disease. Once you've got it, it's incurrable and lifelong

Love is a circular emotion that surrounds you, like a hug. Or a noose.

His heart wants to be tied to another heart, even by deep stitches.