Quotes About Attachment

o oposto do amor não é o ódio, é a indiferença. (p. 306) (GIFFIN, 2004.)

Underscoring all of this is Leo—his constant presence in my mind, along with the troubling realization that I deeply associate him with the city and vice versa. So much so, in fact, that leaving New York feels an awful lot like leaving him.

I ever stop loving him the way you're supposed to stop loving everyone but the one you're with? If the answer is no, then will the lapse of time or a change of geography really fix the problem? And regardless of the answer, what does the mere question say about my relationship with Andy?

But it's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved.

It never ceases to amaze me how foolproof the rule is: the person who cares the least (or pretends to) holds the power.

I saw Richelle turn her head to stare at him curiously. She always thought it was odd when people cared a lot about things. Sometimes I'd try and explain it to her. "It's like you care about clothes and stuff, Richelle," I'd say. But then she'd just look at me as if I was odd. That wasn't something she just cared about. It was life, to her, like breathing in and out. It couldn't be compared to anything else, in her opinion.

Falkner sometimes thought her heart was a voodoo doll, full of pins. One each for Ben and the girls. One for each member of the team. She felt the new pin slide in and hoped for the best.

He [Ma's Tooth] was part of her a minute ago but now he's not. Just a thing.

We spend most of our lives holding on to objects, he thought, and finally they fall from our cold dead hands and those who tidy up after us have to worry of what to do with all this stuff.

When he asked if he was mine, tears in his eyes, I think he knew what he would do, what he would have to do, and he was mourning us. He was mourning us the whole time.

Oh, I'm crazy all right. I do have plenty of psychoses. Multiple personality, delusional dementia, OCD. I've got them all, but most of all, I'm crazy about you.

Meervoudige persoonlijkheid, waandenkbeelden, dwangneurose. Ik heb ze allemaal, maar ik ben vooral gek op jou. - Orion/Artemis

The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.

Do not get too attached to life] for it is like a sailor's leave on the shore and at any time, the captain may sound the horn, calling you back to eternal darkness.

Remind thyself that he whom thou lovest is mortal — that what thou lovest is not thine own; it is given thee for the present, not irrevocably nor for ever, but even as a fig or a bunch of grapes at the appointed season of the year

It is a universal law — have no illusion — that every creature alive is attached to nothing so much as to its own self-interest.

For what else is tragedy than the portrayal in tragic verse of the sufferings of men who have attached high value to external things? [27]

who is your master? Whoever has authority over anything that you're anxious to gain or avoid.

Don't you want to be free of all that? [33] 'But how can I do it?' You've often heard how – you need to suspend desire completely, and train aversion only on things within your power. You should dissociate yourself from everything outside yourself – the body, possessions, reputation, books, applause, as well as office or lack of office. Because a preference for any of them immediately makes you a slave, a subordinate, and prone to disappointment.

The object of your love is mortal; it is not one of your possessions; it has been given to you for the present, not inseparably nor forever." (Epictetus, The Discourses)

Open your eyes: See things for what they really are, thereby sparing yourself the pain of false attachments and avoidable devastation.

For you will learn by experience that it's true: the things that men admire and work so hard to get prove useless to them once they're theirs.

when we love, hate or fear such things, then the people who administer them are bound to become our masters.

Every day you should put the ideas in action that protect against attachment to externals such as individual people, places or institutions – even your own body.