Quotes About Attachment

If one does not wish bonds broken, one should make them elastic and thereby strengthen them.

But remember, continuing a wrong relationship only increases the pain when it finally does end.

Attachment to being right creates suffering. When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose kind and watch your suffering disappear.

You're still the one that I adore. Aint much out there to have feelings for.

All conflict comes from attachment.

Addiction is a relationship, a pathological relationship in which... obsession replaces people.

To be interested in something is to be involved in what is essentially a stressful relationship with that thing, to suffer anxiety on its behalf.

People have the "ships" that they love, and I think they love the show's ["Pretty Little Liars"] original relationship the most.

Raising a child is the only relationship you have where if you do it right, it will end in separation.

Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby.

Nothing seems interesting when it belongs to you, only when it doesn't.

Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.

When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It's safe. Let go.

If I am identified with my relationship, with my house, or with my money, I am doomed to suffer.

He is a man who seems to ache at the slightest parting, always turning when he leaves you for a long glance back as if against the possibility he might never see you again

Renunciation simply means a state of un-attachment. A big house and a new car should be enjoyed to their fullest so long as we accept them as things that can and will go away. We never really own anything; we hold title, rent, lease, use, and borrow things during our short visit here. Impermanence is just another name for perfection.

London is a bad habit one hates to lose.

A newborn who is used to this cue-response network learns to trust her caregiving environment.

Maybe in a few generations, we'll see studies that indicate that babies who sleep with their parents have fewer ear infections, do better in school, and don't engage in pseudo-science when they grow up.

Attachment mothering is not martyr mothering. Don't think that AP means baby pulls Mommy's string and she jumps. Because of the trust that develops between attached parents and their attached children, parents' response time gradually lengthens as baby gains the ability to control himself. Then mother jumps only when it's an emergency.

To your baby, you are the best mother.

So when Mother goes away, baby feels that the one person who can make him feel right has completely disappeared, perhaps forever. Baby just can't hang on to a mental picture of Mother to reassure himself, and he can't understand the concept of time, so "Mom will be back in an hour" means nothing to him.

I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.

Though last, not least in love.