Quotes about Attachment

Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.

She better liked to see him free and happy, even than to have him near her, because she loved him better than herself.

The mind loves whatever repeats a pleasurable experience from the past. "I love this" basically means "I love repeating what felt so good before".

I have to go," he said at last, getting to his feet. "I shouldn't even be here, but I cannot keep my self away from you. I worry about you in every waking moment. I love you, Luce. So much it hurts.

I love you too much to say goodbye.

In the spiritual life there is no such thing as an indifference to love or hate.

The hardest thing of love is to let go.

We are to enjoy what we have while we have it, but we are never to get to the point where we think we could not love without it.

Love is all I can possess and no one can deprive me of it. Kahlil Gibran (Visions of the Prophet)

Make sure your soul is attached at all times - this town will steal it in a second, given the chance.

You will only see who you are and thus be who you are as you surrender your attachment to all other identities

Our bodies, our relationships, our lives. We're terrified of losing those things because we think they make us who we are. Fear of loss keeps it all in place. Dying means letting go of all of it, our entire life in the world, to know ourselves beyond the images and relationships apparent in this world.