She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“You need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need to be free and detached from things… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Subhuti, someone might fill innumerable worlds with the seven treasures and give all away in gifts of alms, but if any good… — Siddhārtha Gautama Copy Share Image
I sort of gave up on this whole human adventure a long time ago, divorced myself from it emotionally. It gives me… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
Wandering, (is) considered as a state of detachment form every given point in space. — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
I tore my right shoulder to pieces - three external tears, a labrum tear, and a detachment of the bicep tendon. — Alex O'Loughlin Copy Share Image
What becomes decisive to a Justice's functioning on the Court in the large area within which his individuality moves is his general… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Sometimes you'll see people give performances in comedy with an ironic detachment where they'll sort of be remarking on the character from… — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
Yoga is an ancient discipline in which physical postures, breath practice, meditation, and philosophical study are tools for achieving liberation. In my… — Rodney Yee Copy Share Image
You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The 'I' casts off the illusion of the 'I' and yet remains 'I'. Such is the paradox of Self-realization. The Realized do… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think,… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
There's a Legion that never was 'listed, That carries no colours or crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, Is breaking the… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
This morning I suddenly catch myself: I'm not there, I'm so lost in thought, I don't know what's going on around me.… — Anna Kamienska Copy Share Image
Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“As Baba Ram Dass (his ‘spiritual name’), Richard Alpert explained human attachment as a ‘clue that there’s work to be done’ –… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke 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
Only in the stillness of detachment can the soul yield up her secrets. — Elsa Barker Copy Share Image
A defensive war is apt to betray us into too frequent detachment. Those generals who have had but little experience attempt to… — Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor Copy Share Image
“Precisely this one, which I had intended to be published anonymously so that it could never build any reputation on the part… — Viktor Frankl Copy Share Image
