One detects creative power by its capacity to conquer one's detachment. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself. — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
The Sufi is One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Learning how to detach, in a healthy manner, will save you from a lot of things that don’t even align with your… — Robin S. Baker Copy Share Image
Let us be humble and keep ourselves down: - Obedience! Humility! Detachment! — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
We must not forget that its attachment only that leads to suffering. So the most direct path to happiness and peace is… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it. — Ram Dass 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
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
“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
He'd been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and numb at… — William Gibson 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
[Hollywood] studios are handing out money to make independent films now, but they all want the same thing. They want the style… — Stanley Tucci Copy Share Image
Since We have created you all from one same substance it is incumbent on you to be even as one soul, to… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
My work is very dear to me, and certainly I have had all the emotional highs and lows that go with trying… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“Perhaps a past of bingeing, restricting, or purging comes back to haunt you from time to time. Maybe you have to fight… — Kate Wicker Copy Share Image
It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying.… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
We find in the novella a seamless interweaving of at least two narrative voices, one of which is that of an observer… — Philip Kitcher 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
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
“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
“To be a warrior a man has to be, first of all, and rightfully so, keenly aware of his own death. But… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
“I release my parents from the feeling that they have already failed me. I release my children from the need to bring… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Detachment is hard on your heart — and it actually creates blocks to what you want. Non-attachment, on the other hand, is… — Danielle LaPorte Copy Share Image
“Assimilate ubiquitously. Doublethink. To deliberately believe in lies, while knowing they're false. Examples of this in everyday life: "oh, I need to… — Henry Barthes Copy Share Image
“Allowing attachments to people/things create a compulsive addiction in us to be controlling. This “control” (fueled by fear of loss) fools us… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
...a very terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people… — Noam Chomsky 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
![“[Hollywood] studios are handing out money to make independent films now, but they all want the same thing. They want the style and the deadpan delivery of RESERVOIR DOGS or FARGO and so they imitate those movies. They want PULP FICTION, but they get it all wrong! They get the detachment, but…” quote by Stanley Tucci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/155/stanley-tucci-10260_character_hollywood-studios-are-handing-out-money_2775030.jpg)
![“...a very terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people can observe [war and human suffering]. I think that's more terrifying than the occasional Hitler ...or other that crop up - these people would not able…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c4/noam-chomsky-42_able_a-very-terrifying-aspect-of-our-society_2154808.jpg)
