The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Those who conquer their minds are beings of renunciation and detachment. They are beings of renunciation and detachment they are lovingly focused… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
“Sri Krishna said: Arjuna, when one thoroughly casts off all cravings of the mind, and is satisfied in the Self through the… — Gita Press 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
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
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
You could be attached to merely a description of a plant or a flower. Or a narrative of an event. Or rage… — Gerald Stern 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
“Naturally, the plague of humanity named confidence (or pride to some), which symptoms often render each person to fiercely believe himself to… — Bruce Crown 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
I don't really identify with America, I don't really feel like an American or part of the American experience, and I don't… — George Carlin 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
However, the serious seeker of detachment will have to embrace the Holy Trinity of Ss - Solitude, Stillness and Silence - and… — Michael Foley 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
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
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
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
“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 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
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
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
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
To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This… — Sam Snead Copy Share Image
They give me a shot and a handful of pills to swallow. I stare at the thin red wall of my inner… — Will Christopher Baer Copy Share Image
What are we going to do?" asked the Professor. "At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are… — Anonymous 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
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
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
I want to care, but I don't. I look at you and all I feel is tired. I walk through school and… — Elizabeth Scott Copy Share Image
“The greatest asset to the human experience is the ability to navigate one’s emotions. By practicing the skill of detachment, one can… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
