Quotes About Attachment

Almost everything I operated was in Melbourne and Perth, but in the end, I just couldn't bear the thought of leaving. Sydney is my home.

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

A lot of people who don't have anything collect dogs; it's kind of a symbol of having something.

People's most prized possessions carry deeply symbolic and emotional significance.

What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human heart, reciprocations of kindness and love, and all the nameless sympathies of our nature - these are the only objects worth being attached to.

As far as I'm concerned, I own my dogs as I own my body. My legs are with me when I take a shower, and I feel no shame. If I were to lose one, I'd grieve, and people would send sympathy cards, but it would be my condition that evoked the sympathy, not the fate of the leg. That's like losing a dog.

Once you're done with the film, it's almost like empty nest syndrome: your kid has moved out of the house.

I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.

His mind strayed from his work to her. His dreams were never of anything but her. There was nothing beautiful in the world that didn't, in some way, remind him of her. And he began to wonder if he really did have a heart after all. For didn't you have to possess a heart to be so dangerously close to losing it?

Love is when you like someone so much that you can't just call it "like," so you have to call it "love.

Love is when your heart wraps around something and won't let go.

But at the exact same time I got nervous about that, I also got this other feeling, which I can only describe of as love for Annemarie's elevator.

Because I miss them. Because I need them. Because I love them.

Yes," said Mamma, "this is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but is a sure way of losing it. We love people, and we say that we are going to do more for them than friendship, but it makes such fools of us that we do far less, indeed sometimes what we do could be mistaken for the work of hatred.

A girl's legs are her best friends... but even the best of friends must part.

When you have lost people like I lost my birth mom at a young age and you remember the whole process of losing her, you want to grab on to something that makes you whole.

Sweetheart, there's not enough money in the world to make messing with you worth it—not unless I was plumb crazy about you." From

If home is where the heart is at, my home is where you are

La curiosité l'avait désormais enchaîné.

If you love something, set it free. Unless it's chocolate. Never release chocolate.

MAY 8 IN THE TIBETAN medical system disorders of the flesh are related to ignorance, disorders of the bones to anger, and disorders of the blood to attachment.

though it is a form of intimacy I don't care for, since I have a tendency to fight shy of bonds.

How do we know that?" Lucy was frowning. "By inference. She did not attach a piece of paper to a blanket with a bare pin and wrap the blanket around the baby.

But then Mago touched my belly button and added something to the story my mother had never told me. She said that my umbilical cord was like a ribbon that connected me to Mami. She said, "It doesn't matter that there's a distance between us now. That cord is there forever.