One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost… — Douglas Coupland 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
“When you separate yourself from your thoughts and simply notice them with detachment, you remove some of the power they have over… — S.J. Scott Copy Share Image
Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to control outcomes or results, although most of us have been programmed from a very young age to believe… — Christopher Dines Copy Share Image
For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress… I… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
Virtue is the panacea for both body and mind. The virtuous person can be both healthy and happy. How is virtue to… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
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
I have sought earnestly and with great diligence that good and high virtue by which man may draw closest to God... and… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
If you want to be powerful in life you have to enjoy the process. You have to get pleasure out of making… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“Scientific advancement carries risk,” Kohler argued. “It always has. Space programs, genetic research, medicine—they all make mistakes. Science needs to survive its… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
In the desert the detachment of life from all normal intercourse imparts a sense of gravity to every rencontre, and each touch… — Mildred Cable Copy Share Image
Suppose we were (as we might be) an influence, an idea, a thing intangible, invulnerable, without front or back, drifting about like… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I am feeling fine. I remember these words and recite them. These are the things you say when asked how you are.… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my… — Ed Westwick Copy Share Image
“Even if you have not awakened, if you realize that your perceptions and activities are all like dreams and you view them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The saying goes, 'The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.' This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries… — Zhuangzi 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
Your superhuman power was to be able not to feel. Is it there inside everybody, this self that comes out while you… — Heather O'Neill 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
Pain is a form of forced detachment. Like the loved one who hurts you again and again and again, the more they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What we call a financial crisis is really at its core a crisis of management, and not just a crisis of management,… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
Outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness. I look down into the warm, earthy world.… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“It registers that I am sitting there topless, but this body I am in doesn't feel like mine anymore so the half-nakedness… — Lauren Miller Copy Share Image
“When you run up against someone else’s shamelessness, ask yourself this: Is a world without shamelessness possible? No. Then don’t ask the… — Marcus Aurelius 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
The detachment of the artist is kind of creepy. It's kind of rude, and yet really it's where art comes from. It's… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
What becomes decisive to a Justice's functioning on the Court in the large area within which his individuality moves is his general… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
“But if detachment is really fear of failure and hence never putting oneself to the test, or if it’s fear of being… — Kiran Nagarkar 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
The benefits of detachment in the face of intense emotional activity can’t be overstated. It doesn’t cut you off from your heart… — Sonia Choquette Copy Share Image
She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I think that all things which evoke discipline: study, and our duties to men and to the commonwealth, war, and personal hardship,… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
There are always moments when one feels empty and estranged. Such moments are most desirable, for it means the soul has cast… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
I almost said, you're not broken, you're just going through something. But i couldn't. She knew. There was something terribly wrong with… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Precisely this one, which I had intended to be published anonymously so that it could never build any reputation on the part… — Viktor Frankl Copy Share Image
If you develop a detachment, through thoughtless awareness, God will take over, He will do your work. He will look after you.… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image