One detects creative power by its capacity to conquer one's detachment. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
As a journalist, you want to try to maintain that objectivity and detachment. — Susanna Reid Copy Share Image
The yoga of selfless giving is easy for anyone to practice. The key is detachment. The spirit is unattachment to results. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
detachment, n. Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility. — William Osler Copy Share Image
Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
When in still air and still in summertime A leaf has had enough of this, it seems To make up its mind… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
“There is a feeling of disbelief that comes over you, that takes over, and you kind of go through the motions. You… — Frederick Barthelme Copy Share Image
What 'Scream' was great at was presenting ironic detachment and then making you actually care about the people that were having it,… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
The mind and spirit of man advance when he is tried by suffering. ... so suffering and tribulation free man from the… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Detachment is not about refusing to feel or not caring or turning away from those you love. Detachment is profoundly honest, grounded… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
When a general, unable to estimate the enemy's strength, allows an inferior force to engage a larger one, or hurls a weak… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Confusion is a gift from God. Those times when you feel most desperate for a solution, sit. Wait. The information will become… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The author reveals a cultural change that took place when clergy were paid based on a tax on the land's value rather… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I had the right amount of detachment to go back and really appreciate what I had grown up with. There’s a particular… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
Detachment is not indifference. it is the prerequisite for effective involvement. Often what we think is best for others is distorted by… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Woman's soul is present and lives more intensely in all parts of the body, and it is inwardly affected by that which… — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
The list of qualities (an investor should have) include patience, self-reliance, common sense, a tolerance for pain, open-mindedness, detachment, persistence, humility, flexibility,… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Mostly getting old is boring. I hate the stiffness in the bones. I was physically arrogant for years. I don't like it… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
...for those whose favorite season is autumn with its days of cloudless sky, of spacious and clear, far-flung panoramas - those who… — Charlton Ogburn Copy Share Image
It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
“Take any emotion—love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I’m going through, fear and pain from a… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Detachment, n. I still don't know if this is a good quality or a bad one, to be able to be in… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“She had come to analysis because she was, as she put it, “ruining her children.” ... “But you are so frustrating,” she… — DeSales Harrison Copy Share Image
Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“You must understand, owing to my loss of faith in life, I had gradually, inevitably embarked upon a small world of my… — Lawrence G. Taylor Copy Share Image
