The airy sky has taken its place leaning against the wall. It is like a prayer to what is empty And what… — Tomas Transtromer Copy Share Image
Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Solitude has the potential to bring the best thoughts to you. When you are not involved in the emotional, entangled in the… — Alok Mishra 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
“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
Life is easy For the man who is without shame, Impudent as a crow, A vicious gossip, Vain, meddlesome, dissolute. But life… — Gautama Buddha 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
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
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
Marriage partners are to serve each other. Elevate, help, teach, strengthen each other, but above all, serve. Raise their children honorably, lovingly… — J. D. Salinger 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
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
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
Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. The soul that is… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
And so I am feeling numb. It's a curious feeling, and I get it all the time. My attention to the world… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Detachment from things does not mean setting up a contradiction between 'things' and 'God' as if God were another thing and as… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I've never been passionate about acting, and I find more and more that I work to live the life I want to… — Jeremy Irons Copy Share Image
“What did I get in return? Coldness and emotional detachment. You are selfish and bitter and you wouldn’t know a good thing… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
For the Christian mystics, detachment meant to leave attachment so that God could enter you and take over completely and you could… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“But over the years I came to realize that living in a detached way is, in fact, a withdrawal from life, an… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Both religions and musicals work best with energetic and committed believers. Cynicism or detachment would have destroyed the magic - something true… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Three-step rule can be followed in life : Firstly, do not cling to something or somebody or a thought or idea. Secondly,… — Pragya Tiwari Copy Share Image
The alphabet and print technology fostered and encouraged a fragmenting process, a process of specialism and detachment. Electric technology fosters and encourages… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
Spending hours stressed out in front of the TV isn't the same as volunteering or donating. Feeling a high level of personal… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
This detachment (poverty, chastity, etc.) must not be mere amputation; everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a… — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
“I’m already in the late stages of advanced detachment where my mother is concerned. With a little practice I could feel that… — Susan Juby Copy Share Image
The property of the estate owners (pomeshchiks) doesn't belong to any particular detachment, but to the people as a whole. Let the… — Maria Nikiforova Copy Share Image
Maybe being an artist is a kind of detachment. You're in the cave, you're isolated, you're apart from everything and it's there… — Gerald Stern 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
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
“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
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
I felt a kind of numbness, an enervation, but more particularly an odd fragility - as if my body had actually become… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“When you have inferiority complex, people appear to be mocking you about it. Trying to detach from people won't work. Detach from… — Shunya Copy Share Image
Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
I've been in wars and in riots and hung out of many helicopters in the early days. And there's a detachment that… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
