As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
As a journalist, you want to try to maintain that objectivity and detachment. — Susanna Reid Copy Share Image
Detachment does not mean non-involvement. You can be deeply involved but not entangled. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
...for me there is too little of life to spend most of it forcing myself into detachment from it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Nothing is better for "spiritual advancement" & the detachment of the flesh than a close reading of the "Erotic Dictionary.” — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Let us realize that engagement and detachment aren't opposite-the more engaged we become, the more detached we will have to be.. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Serving as the only audience for a man raised by crowds of admirers exhausted her. [...] The buried thought that he might… — Carey Wallace Copy Share Image
The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
“The practice of Detachment encourages the positive aspects of your life to become dominant, while providing a clear path for the negative… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. — Anonymous 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
“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
It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
When a general, unable to estimate the enemy's strength, allows an inferior force to engage a larger one, or hurls a weak… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“Leadership is detachment: detachment from material goods, detachment from feelings as well as personal detachment. To lead is to get rid of… — K. Von Novack 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
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
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
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
I suffer the anthropological malady diagnosed by Le vi- Strauss inTristes tropiques: I find it much more difficult to suspend value judgments… — Pierre L. van den Berghe Copy Share Image
Not everybody, however, has a genuine sense of humor. That calls for an altruistic detachment from oneself and a mysterious sympathy with… — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
“Life is a combo of attachment and detachment. Love is the most natural thing and you are bound to get attached to… — Neelam Saxena Chandra Copy Share Image
One can't write a weird story of real power without perfect psychological detachment from the human scene, and a magic prism of… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“One or two things are all you need to travel over the blue pond, over the deep roughage of the trees and… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Detachment doesn't mean I'm trying less hard. It just means that fears and emotions that used to torment and paralyze me no… — Kelly Cutrone Copy Share Image
“Dr. Doris Parker: I have your ten week report. You know what it says "F, F, F… ". Do you know what… — Dr. Doris Parker Copy Share Image
“The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“विरक्ति = Is it the way it is? (Detachment) वैराग्य = It is the way it is. (Quietness) सन्यास = It has… — Sandeep Sahajpal 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
I'm something that I used to be. I'm never where I feel I am, and if I seek myself, I don't know… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
It may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is 'useful;' but only through participation is it possible to gain the… — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share Image
All the same, my depression and self-hatred, my desire to mutilate myself with broken bottles, my numbness and crying fits, my inability… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“This observation, understanding, and appreciation, when combined with the excellence of poetic expression, produce the best poetry, steeped in poetic truth and… — Alok Mishra 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
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