Quotes About Attachment

It's weirdly reassuring: when adoration is selfish, it's not going anywhere.

Women still dream and hope, pin their emotions on some man who doesn't reciprocate, and end up in confusion.

Money holds terrible power when it is loved

I wasn't sure it was right to abandon myself to lighthearted banter, to allow someone to interfere with my being able to behave in whatever way I chose, whenever I wanted. What if I wanted to enjoy a memory or a good cry? I wasn't weaned from that yet; I wasn't finished being with him in the only way I had left.

All these small things are the glue that keeps you bound to your own life. They are the things that make you you. And in that respect, they are not little at all. They are huge. They are grand.

Funny how important those birds have become to her. But people need something to depend on. They need something to love.

Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love.

When you love someone, its never over. You move on, because you have to but you take them with you in your heart

Gradually people began to speak of the place as Amberside, though there were a few diehards who never stopped calling it Villa Caprice, or, as in the case of Eli Scaynes, the Villa Cay-priss. But Julian and Joe and Tom and Lucy and Davey never called it anything but the Blake's house; and Portia and Foster never called it anything but home. All their lives they knew that one of the best things that ever happened to them was to be able to call it that.

From that first moment, in a way she could never explain, the Meadows claimed her and made her their own. As

There is no escape if love is not there.

Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury.

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

I know this simple fact to be true, for I myself have abandoned people who did not want me to go, and I myself have been abandoned by those whom I begged to stay.

So that's it. You have now reached infatuation's fial destination - the complete and merciless devaluation of self.

At some point I had stopped being in love with him and had fallen in love with the story of him and me instead.

Whenever you are faced with the prospect of purchasing gloves, you must ask yourself if you would be bereft to lose one of them in the back of a taxicab. If not, then don't buy them. You should only buy gloves so beautiful that to lose one of them would break your heart.

Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself.

I MYSELF HAVE CLUNG TO EXISTENCE LIKE A BARNACLE TO A BOAT BOTTOM

Minu jaoks on abielu nagu operatsioon, mis õmbleb kaks inimest kokku; lahutus seevastu meenutab amputatsiooni ja sellest tervenemine võtab kõvasti aega. Mida kauem kooselu kestis või mida jõhkramalt teid lahku amputeeriti, seda raskem on lahutusest toibuda.

La adicción es típica en todas las historias de amor basadas en el encaprichamiento. Al llegar al destino final del amor caprichoso: la más absoluta y despiadada devaluación del propio ser.

sometimes the best way to get over someone is to get under someone else - Richard

All lovers, even the most faithful lovers, are vulnerable to abandonment against their will. I know this simple fact to be true, for I myself have abandoned people who did not want me to go, and I myself have been abandoned by those whom I begged to stay.

I realize now that I always needed somebody to be infatuated with when I was twenty years old, and it didn't really matter who, apparently. Anybody with more charisma than me would do the trick. I was so unformulated as a human being, so unsteady in myself, that I was constantly grasping for attachment to another person - constantly anchoring myself to someone else's allure.