Quotes About Attachment

You save your love for the things that can love you back.

save your love for the things that can love you back.

Love is the fear of separation

It's strange, isn't it, how the idea of belonging to someone can sound so great? It can be comforting, the way it makes things decided. We like the thought of being held, until it's too tight. We like that certainty, until it means there's no way out. And we like being his, until we realize we're not ours anymore.

I had always had a little problem looking out for myself in love. I was afraid people would leave me. So I sort of clung and did everything possible to keep someone around. I didn't have a hard talk with myself about who I was keeping around. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. I clung to people like human life preservers. I thought i'd die if someone left me. Its ironic because now I'm the one who's leaving.

People can attach themselves to something--an idea, another person, a desire--with an impossibly strong grip, and in the case of restless ghosts, a grip stronger than death. Will is a powerful thing. Will--it's supposed to be a good treat, a more determined and persistent version of determination and persistence. But will and obsession--they sit right next to each other. They pretend to be strangers and all the while meet secretly at midnight." -

A person could leave you so quickly. So much history and time and memories, but they snuck away from you, and other things took their place. How could you hold on? Wait. A bigger question. The biggest. How could you hold on and let go?

Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty.

Maybe some people just had trouble with forever.

You take care of the people you love, but it's true, too, that you take care of the things you own.

When you raise an animal, you live it like your own child.

This was what happened after you'd been together with someone a long time. You loved that it was old and worn and comfy, but sometimes it was old and worn and comfy.

You've got an in-love feeling, but the relationship is damaging. When do you stop calling it love?

Our memories and events in our lives are untidy things. We wish that we can file them away and shut the door, or wish the opposite - that they would stay forever.

but if love wasn't just yours first, it was like cutting up and handing out your birthday cake before you blew out the candles.

A cord that remains, always. in many ways...

Where your heart is, there lies your treasured home.

Unless you are ready to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, you'll forever be in the control of things you can't give up.

To live in joy and fully manifest our true potential, we must let go of our desires and attachment to the past and the future and be excited about living in the unknown.

If I lived a million lives, I would've felt a million feelings and I still would've fallen a million times for you.

Attachment with god keeps you decoupled with worldly things around you. Do your duty but leave the result to super power so that you can relieve yourself from pain and attain peace.

I need you because I know I deserve you but let me fall in love with you one last time before I let go. So I can remember the beautiful imperfection that rattled my bones.

To find true freedom, relinquish all of your attachments.

Oh. I just assumed... That because I am so absorbed by him everyone must be too.