Quotes about Attachment
You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.
— Maya Angelou
We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth."
— John Keats
loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round
— Robert Frost
In my childhood diary I wrote: "I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.
— Anais Nin
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
— Henry Ward Beecher
What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is needing to be loved.
— John Lennon
It's one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
— Catherine of Siena
You shall leave everything you love.
— Dante Alighieri
You are what you love.
— St. Augustine
To become attached to the experience of peace is to threaten the true and essential and vital union of our soul with God above sense and experience in the darkness of a pure and perfect love.
— Thomas Merton
Love may turn to indifference with possession.
— William Hazlitt