Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the sense of… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The importance of detachment from things, the importance of poverty, is that we are supposed to be free from things that we… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
When I fell out of the light, I entered The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This… — Sam Snead Copy Share Image
Your heart must become a sea of love. Your mind must become a river of detachment. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
“Anyhow, I get distracted a lot," she repeated. She felt like a dry branch, sticking out of the air. Brittle, covered in… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“She breathes all the political gases that flow around this, but she never seems to inhale them.” — John Fitzgerald Kennedy 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
Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Many people see themselves as a problem that needs to be solved. They also habitually see the present moment as an obstacle… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“If I don't see the reason of someone being my friend, chances are, we are just floating and I need a ship… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when… — Michael Bassey Johnson 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
The warrior knows that he is free to choose his desires, and he makes these decisions with courage, detachment, and - sometimes… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat in matters ofculture,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I want to care, but I don't. I look at you and all I feel is tired. I walk through school and… — Elizabeth Scott Copy Share Image
I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to… — John Irving 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
Don't expect anything from anybody, this is also a great freedom. Don't expect things to be different or people to be in… — Mooji 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
“Naturally, the plague of humanity named confidence (or pride to some), which symptoms often render each person to fiercely believe himself to… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
