Quotes About Attachment

Where your treasure is, there your hear will be also

He's not dead. He is still alive, and while he is alive, he is mine.

Forget it. Tell me, do you think you love Robin? Honestly." Tully looked over at Jennifer's shadow in the dark room. "I don't particularly want to lose him," she said. "Is that love?

Un hombre puede ser perfectamente feliz con una mujer, siempre y cuando no la ame»

That's why no one has abandoned London. They are all fragments of a city. They're part of something, they belong to something whole. If they leave, pieces will go missing.

We're not nomads, we're not gypsies! We have a home!

No quiero olvidarme de este niño –pensó–, por si alguna vez necesito volver a su lado.»

Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down wonderful opportunities simply because don't know what to do with it.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness, possesses you. And in this materialistic age, a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

Like" as a friend. "Like" as respect. There are so many different kinds of "likes." So when does "like" turn into "love"? Where's the boundary?

Whoa! Hey, what are you doing? I'm attaching myself to you. Because I'm a kid. Spoil me.

What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything.

Quién quería tener un perro así? ¿Qué hueco afectivo emocional venía a llenar semejante monstruo en una casa? ¿Era metáfora de qué? ¿Prolongación de qué? ¿Doble animal, nahual, de quién? ¿Por qué carajo me traía esta mina a su novio convertido en perro y me dejaba cuidándolo un ratito?

Podréis quitarme las monedas que llevo encima, podréis quitarme el reloj de mi muñeca y las llaves que llevo en el bolsillo, podéis quitarme hasta la vida; sólo hay una cosa que no podréis quitarme, por mucho empeño que pongáis: el miedo que tengo.

We want desperately to believe that every mother falls in love with her baby at first sight and that the complexity of relationships, so evident elsewhere as part of the human condition, is totally absent from the connection between mother and child.

With insecure attachments, "a child unwittingly memorizes the precise lesson of that troubled relationship: that love is suffocation, that anger is terrifying, that dependence is humiliating, or one of a million crippling variations.

Children of mothers who are only sometimes available and who aren't reliably attuned adapt by being ambivalently attached. Because they don't know what to expect—is she going to be the nice mommy or the yelling one?—these children develop anxiety and insecurity about the maternal relationship and, as adults, a sense of all relationships as being essentially unreliable.

Giving presents is one of the most possessive things we do, did you realize that? It's the way we keep a hold on other people. Plant ourselves in their lives.

Human emotional attachment can make animal companions cling to a torturous existence when they would normally prepare themselves for their transitions peacefully.

possessions.

I think one is always in love with something or other

I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is, that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend To cold oblivion, though it is in the code Of modern morals, and the beaten road Which those poor slaves with weary footsteps tread, Who travel to their home among the dead By the broad highway of the world, and so With one chained friend, perhaps a jealous foe, The dreariest and the longest journey go. - Epipsychidion

Food offers us our first outside source of self-soothing, and when a child is starving for love, he frequently makes food his love object.

Cptsd typically includes an attachment disorder that comes from the absence of a sympathetic caregiver in childhood. When the developing child lacks a supportive parental refuge, she never learns that other people can soothe loneliness and emotional pain. She never learns that real intimacy grows out of sharing all of her experience.