Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
One detects creative power by its capacity to conquer one's detachment. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
My approach is neither of attachment nor of detachment, but of simple understanding. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
For most people, attaining the intellectual clarity and emotional detachment that investing requires is tough. — Guy Spier Copy Share Image
Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength. — Aristotle 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
The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I wanted to turn everything off, too. Just press a button - click - and shut myself down. Turn off my heart,… — Kevin Brooks Copy Share Image
“The path towards living in a spiritual manner begins by eliminating inculcated cultural biases, destroying personal illusions, and gratefully accepting the world… — Kilroy J. Oldster 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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'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
“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 feel as though dispossessed from the semblances of some crystalline reality to which I’d grown accustomed, and to some degree, had… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“Although contemplating the nature of the body highlights its less attractive features, the purpose of the exercise is not to demonize the… — Anālayo 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
“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
