Quotes about Attachment

I cannot but feel compassion when I hear some trig, compact-looking man, seemingly free, all girded and ready, speak of his 'furniture,' as whether it is insured or not. 'But what shall I do with my furniture?'...It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise a sick one to lay down his bed and run.

Will you, or will you not, quit me?' I now demanded in a sudden passion, advancing close to him. 'I would prefer not to quit you', he replied, gently emphasizing the not.

As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal.

Children can only grow from something you love to something you lose.

The life of a Christian should be a meditation how to unloose his affection from inferior things. He will easily die that is dead before in affection.

It's a law of life: the tyranny of things.

The hard part of loving is that one has to learn so often to let go of those we love, so they can do things, so they can grow, so they can return to us with an even richer, deeper love.

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

Real love uses freedom to attach itself unchangeably to another.

A friendship founded on usefulness or pleasure. In this kind of love, the lover loves himself more than his friend. That is why, if the friend ever prevents him from realizing what he wants, his love turns to hate.

We are wired to find love.