Quotes About Attachment

On peut aimer quelqu'un et être célibataire ! Il suffit que le sentiment ne soit pas réciproque, ou que la personne ne soit pas libre.

Hélas, certaines personnes sont plus attachées au respect des règlements qu'à l'intelligence de s'y dérober parfois. C'est fou comme les réglementations rassurent ceux qui manquent d'imagination.

Un amor de infancia es algo sagrado, nada ni nadie te lo puede quitar. Queda para siempre, arraigado en lo más profundo de ti mismo. Basta que un recuerdo lo libere para que emerja a la superficie aunque tenga las alas rotas.

There is a weird truth to the idea that if you really don't care, things will generally go your way. If you're really invested and emotionally attached, things will get away from you or at least get chaotic and scary.

please remember that leaving your baby alone protesting for more fun with you while you get dressed is not the same things as abandonment. Similarly, leaving your baby alone protesting for more fun when she needs to sleep is not neglect.

The baby who goes to sleep with help from one of his or her parents by nursing, rocking, or holding learns only adult transition skills and needs an adult present in order to fall asleep. The baby or toddler who goes to sleep alone cuddling a stuffed animal, holding his or her favorite blanket, or sucking his or her thumb learns valuable self-quieting skills that can be used for many years to come.

Si elle veut venir dans notre maison, moi mon idee, c'est qu'elle n'en partira jamais plus.

Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them.

In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.

It is our imagination that is responsible for love, not the other person.

For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.

This malady which Swann's love had become had so proliferated, was so closely interwoven with all his habits, with all his actions, with his thoughts, his health, his sleep, his life, even with what he hoped for after his death, was so utterly inseparable from him, that it would have been impossible to eradicate it without almost entirely destroying him; as surgeons say, his love was no longer operable.

An hour or so later he received a note from Odette. Swann had left his cigarette case at her house. "If only," she wrote, "you had also forgotten your heart! I should never have let you have it back.

When a belief vanishes, there survives it -- more and more vigorously so as to cloak the absence of the power, now lost to us, of imparting reality to new things -- a fetishistic attachment to the old things which it did once animate, as if it was in them and not in ourselves that the divine spark resided, and as if our present incredulity had a contingent cause -- the death of the gods.

The person with whom we are in love is to be recognised only by the intensity of the pain that we suffer.

The most exclusive love for a person is always a love for something else.

On n'aime que ce qu'on ne possède pas tout entier.

For we are not as faithful to the being we have most loved as we are to ourselves and sooner or later we forget her — since that is one of our characteristics — so as to start loving another.

And in love, it is easier to relinquish a feeling than to give up a habit.

I felt that I did not really remember her except through the pain, and I longed for the nails that riveted her to my consciousness to be driven yet deeper.

we ought not to attach ourselves to beings, it is not beings who exist in reality and are amenable to description, but ideas.

For the possession of what we love is an even greater joy than love itself.

Every woman feels that the greater her power over a man, the more impossible it is to leave him except by sudden flight: a fugitive precisely because a queen.