Quotes about Attachment

The strength of government does not consist of anything within itself, but in the attachment of a nation, and the interest which a people feel in supporting it.

If you set your love on worldly things, they will not satisfy.

The world is but a great inn, where we are to stay a night or two, and be gone; what madness is it so to set our heart upon our inn, as to forget our home? 1.Consider

I just knew that I wanted to attach myself to it. The best way for me to describe it is that something bloomed in my chest. I felt some sense of opening or wonder. I knew instinctively that the wilderness was the place that I felt most gathered.

Any place you love is the world to you.

I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.

You might change your mind about what you hate to leave, he said.

You might change your mind about what you hate to leave, he said.

And it may be a superstition with us that if we will just give up those things we are fond of then the world will not take from us what we truly love. Which of course is a folly. The world knows what you love.

She had borne so long this cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him.

I have this love for Mattie. It was formed in me as he himself was formed. It has his shape, you might say. He fits it. He fits into it as he fits into his clothes. He will always fit into it. When he gets out of the car and I meet him and hug him, there he is, him himself, something of my very own forever, and my love for him goes all around him just as it did when he was a baby and a little boy and a young man grown.

"Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God."