Quotes about Attachment

We just have to recognize life for what it is: a gift to be grateful for, not a property to cling to, hoard, or defend.

He tells me that you would have actually accomplished your purpose, had not our brethren with affectionate care held you back. I thank you all the same and regard it as a kindness shown. For in the case of friends one must accept the will for the deed. Enemies often give us the latter, but only sincere attachment can bring us the former.

It does no good to nail an unattached branch to the vine; there is no life-giving connection. But those branches that are an integral part of the vine share in the life of the vine.

I don't. I don't want anybody else to touch you. I'm silly. I get furious if they touch you.

Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also.

In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.

True love frees us, and at the same time it binds us:

Dreams are powerful. It is possible to so attach our emotions to them that a dream can become a taskmaster we serve, rather than an assignment or goal we steward.

Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you was beyond my control.

I'm afraid I'm in love with you and that's not the best thing that could happen.