To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety. Until one thing comes out from theconnection… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Regard as free not those whose status makes them outwardly free, but those who are free in their character and conduct. For… — Anthony the Great Copy Share Image
...for me there is too little of life to spend most of it forcing myself into detachment from it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Hollywood] studios are handing out money to make independent films now, but they all want the same thing. They want the style… — Stanley Tucci Copy Share Image
Several decades ago, a detachment of the American right cut itself loose from reason, and it has been drifting along happily ever… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Detachment does not mean non-involvement. You can be deeply involved but not entangled. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far my experience is common. At times I suffer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We find in the novella a seamless interweaving of at least two narrative voices, one of which is that of an observer… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Identification prevents and perverts the flow of thought-feeling. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The true contemplative is one who has discovered the art of finding leisure even in the midst of his work, by working… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
She examined me, she looked at me critically and said, "Why are you trying to starve yourself?" To keep myself from feeling… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Becoming the observer (step back) you begin to live in process, trusting where our source is taking you. You begin to detach… — Wayne W. Dyer Copy Share Image
“It stung this new rejection, but it was also a relief to put an end to the ambiguity and incertitude. I had… — Catherine Sanderson Copy Share Image
Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What all this posturing and fake glamor results in is a vast detachment and cynicism on the part of the artists. Since… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
Especially with iPhones, iPads and apps, there's just so much detachment that you're just flicking your fingers on a smooth surface to… — Tristan Perich Copy Share Image
I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“As the twelfth-century Tibetian yogi Milarepa said when he heard of his student Gampopa's peak experiences, 'They are neither good nor bad.… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
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