Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Writing creatively is a process of self-consumption that requires one to dive deeply inside of oneself with no guarantee of reemergence.” — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God. — Radhanath Swami 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
The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Your heart must become a sea of love. Your mind must become a river of detachment. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
“Do not conflate love with attachment. The desire to hold on to what once was because of what it gave you is… — Calvin Niles Copy Share Image
“(John F.) Kennedy was an elitist and not a populist. He was enthralled by a certain British aristocratic view of politics in… — Scott Farris Copy Share Image
This morning I suddenly catch myself: I'm not there, I'm so lost in thought, I don't know what's going on around me.… — Anna Kamienska Copy Share Image
Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think,… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
“I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The Law of Detachment: 1) Allow yourself and others the freedom to be who they are. 2) Do not force solutions -… — Deepak Chopra 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
To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability… — Erich Fromm 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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“Detachment doesn't mean avoiding things and going to Himalayas. It means doing what is necessary without drowning in it.” — Sumit Singh Copy Share Image
“I’ll detach myself from the crowd if it hinders my growth, I’ll fall from the tree that won’t let me grow.” — Hareem Ch Copy Share Image
A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
My approach is neither of attachment nor of detachment, but of simple understanding. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
For most people, attaining the intellectual clarity and emotional detachment that investing requires is tough. — Guy Spier 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
Particularly on social media, there is that level of detachment, some people feel like they can say whatever pops in their head . — Bella Heathcote 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
When I fell out of the light, I entered The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity. — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
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
The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety. Until one thing comes out from theconnection… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm up all night against my will My medicine won't let me feel anything at all The doctor gave me sleeping pills… — Joseph Arthur Copy Share Image