Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Do not conflate love with attachment. The desire to hold on to what once was because of what it gave you is… — Calvin Niles Copy Share Image
“Detachment doesn't mean avoiding things and going to Himalayas. It means doing what is necessary without drowning in it.” — Sumit Singh Copy Share Image
Your heart must become a sea of love. Your mind must become a river of detachment. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
“I’ll detach myself from the crowd if it hinders my growth, I’ll fall from the tree that won’t let me grow.” — Hareem Ch Copy Share Image
“If you do not acquire good training in detachment, you may attach to all the wrong things.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Some jobs required a certain level of detachment; a turning off of emotions in order to do the things that needed to… — Julie James Copy Share Image
The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time,… — Jeanette Winterson 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
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
“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
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
It's a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to what he believes, who has stifled intellectual detachment and can… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that… — Edward St Aubyn 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
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
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
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
Being anthropologically respectful of all faiths means being committed to none, and being left to drift without an anchor for one's most… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
“Detachment, properly understood, means freedom, inner freedom. And, although it is not a word Jesus used, detachment expresses very well an important… — Albert Nolan 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… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
“To be a warrior a man has to be, first of all, and rightfully so, keenly aware of his own death. But… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
“Detachment is hard on your heart — and it actually creates blocks to what you want. Non-attachment, on the other hand, is… — Danielle LaPorte Copy Share Image
“Also the natural sexual functions of establishing an intimate human contact frequently assume greater proportions. This is a well known fact about… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
I'm not prescribing non-doing as a universal response to our problems. Sometimes, something obviously needs to be done. And we retreat into… — Charles Eisenstein 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
“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
“If all emotions are common coin, then what is unique to the good man? To welcome with affection what is sent by… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
