Quotes about Attachment

Everyone has come to understand that unconditional love is a reality, but with as shelf life of about eight to ten seconds.

The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word "love."

Let Rufus weep, rejoice, stand, sit, or walk, Still he can nothing but of Nævia talk: Let him eat, drink, ask Questions, or dispute, Still he must speak of Nævia, or be mute. He writ to his Father, ending with this Line, I am, my Lovely Nævia, ever thine.

No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there-well or poorly.

Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. I throw it out of my hands as soon as possible, lest it should find its way into my heart.

You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.

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."

loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round

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.

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.

What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.

Love is needing to be loved.