Quotes About Attachment

Lying awake, I tried to recall all my best memories of her – to freeze her in my mind so I wouldn't forget her – but instead of birthdays and happy times I kept remembering things like how a few days before she was killed she'd stopped me halfway out the door to pick a thread off my school jacket.

Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you

Here is my experience. Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you

love more binding than physical affection, some tar-pit of the soul where I might flop around and malinger for years.

I am nothing in my soul if not possessive

Because I love Henry. Henry's dead. I can't help it. I still love him.

When we are sad—at least I am like this—it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to the things that don't change.

Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only-if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn't it? And isn't the whole point of things-beautiful things-that they connect you to some larger beauty?

Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only-- if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn't it? And isn't the whole point of things--beautiful things--that they connect you to come larger beauty? Those first images that crack your heart wide open and you spend the rest of your life chasing, or trying to recapture, in one way or another?...

I have been in love with no one, and never shall," she whispered, "unless it should be with you." How

Uma vez que sejamos levados a perceber o pecado como muito mais vil, e a compreender que ele está muito mais apegado a nós do que supúnhamos, seremos igualmente levados a confiar, a crer e a nos aproximar mais de Jesus.

While I fear that we're drawn to what abandons us, and to what seems most likely to abandon us, in the end I believe we're defined by what embraces us.

Nem lesz hazája senki másnak,Erdély örökre Erdély marad.

I wanted to belong to Iris when I didn't even belong to myself.

Live with high intention and low attachment

If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then its yours forever. If it doesnt, then it was never yours to begin with.

The house is a bit of a monster, and slowly you belong to it and begin to function in it like living furniture that gets rearranged—you become another gear inside the machine of the house, or a hand puppet to your parents. You won't find freedom until you find yourself in a place that doesn't own you.

The Spirit and the Soul" The spirit dances, comes and goes. But the soul is nailed to us like lentils and fatty bacon lodged under the ribs.

Attachment is conditional, offers love only to certain people in certain ways; it is exclusive. Love, in the sense of metta, used by Buddha, is a universal, nondiscriminating feeling of caring and connectedness.

The problem with the "wanting mind" is that even if you get what you think you want, it does not stop. It says, "All right, I have got the nice car, but now I need more money." It is always something that we do not have in the present moment—something that we want to obtain in order to satisfy our longing.

For instance, the near enemy of love is attachment. It masquerades as love, it feels like love, but it is essentially different.

Because love, compassion, and joy can lead to excessive attachment, their warmth needs to be balanced with equanimity. Because equanimity can lead to excessive detachment, its coolness needs to be balanced with love, compassion, and joy. Established together, these radiant qualities express mental harmony.

To protect the separate self, we push certain things away, while to bolster it we hold on to other things and identify with them. A

The truth is that things change whether we want them to or not. Becoming attached to things as they are or pushing things away that we do not like does not stop them from changing. It only leads to further suffering.