Quotes About Attachment

Why, she would hang on him,As if increase of appetite had grownBy what it fed on.

A love that is true to living persons and existing realities is steadfast and fine. But I saw then, for the first time, that a love which was fastened upon the dead and true to nothing but a past that was finished, is not a good nor true emotion. If it went on too long, it could become an incubus, throttling a man from the real life of the present, which is the life that we were fashioned to meet and experience.

George Bernard Shaw once observed: "People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed.

Dying - you can't do that to a cat.

I don't know what's going on about this feeling you got me feeling'Cause everytime I try to leave I'm right back again.

The person who desires to leave things better than he found them, who does more than his share, who is not attached to rewards, who is always seeking to benefit others, who knows he is cared for and rewarded by the Universe for his every effort, is able to act selflessly, without expectation of a reward or a return, without thought of advantage, and of him it is said, "He is better than the best," and, of course, he is greatly rewarded.

The pleasures of love, then ... seem to be the only objects that can excite in you the desire of reigning; for in this respect it is in your power to attach yourselves to whatever object you find eminently beautiful.

When I'm curled up in his arms like this, I can never tell how my body looks to him. I worry that I seem completely ridiculous, but I have the ability to squeeze into any little space he leaves for me. I fold my legs until they take up almost no room at all, and curl in my shoulders until they're practically dislocated. Like a mummy in a tomb. And when I get like this, I don't care if I never get out; or maybe that's exactly what I hope will happen.

you read a novel to the end, then it's over. I would never want to do something as wasteful as that. I'd much rather keep it here with me, safe and sound, forever.

If you read a novel to the end, then it's over. I would never want to do something as wasteful as that. I'd much rather keep it here with me, safe and sound, forever.

unable to rid herself of her memories. Poor thing.

I couldn't possibly say," he said. "If you read a novel to the end, then it's over. I would never want to do something as wasteful as that. I'd much rather keep it here with me, safe and sound, forever.

he has never read a single page of any of my books. Once, when I told him I'd love to know what he thinks of them, he demurred. "I couldn't possibly say," he said. "If you read a novel to the end, then it's over. I would never want to do something as wasteful as that. I'd much rather keep it here with me, safe and sound, forever.

If you read a novel to the end, then it's over. I would never want to do something as wasteful as that. I'd much rather keep it here with me, safe and sound, forever.

She's always hated good-byes and as she got older she hated them even more.

What's a house when you've lost a country?' she says with a sigh.

Impermanence. It is the nature of all things, especially relationships. They are certainly not a true cause of happiness.

May all beings have happiness and the true causes of happiness; May all beings be free from suffering and the true causes of suffering; May all beings never be parted from the happiness that is without suffering, the great joy of nirvana, liberation; May all beings abide in peace and equanimity, their minds free from attachment and aversion, and free from indifference.

We begin to believe that our happiness depends on a certain outcome or person or lifestyle. That is superstition.

May all beings abide in peace and equanimity, their minds free from attachment and aversion, and free from indifference.

Attachment is when we believe that a person, a thing or an outcome is necessary for our happiness

The best use for these methods is in our practice of Dharma. That is how they evolved. When we begin our journey with renunciation, we accept that our happiness, our wellbeing, is dependent not so much on circumstances, as on our mind. We decide to turn away from the true causes of our unhappiness, which is, say, our attachment or anger, and instead cultivate more beneficial mental states. We take refuge in the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha, yes?

And you stupid, stupid woman, stupid for caring, stupid for thinking that he cared.