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
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 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 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
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
“(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
“And do you see how beautiful and graceful the birds are when they are flying and soaring? The ground has many comforts… — Aleksandra Layland 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
“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
“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
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
Detachment, lack of sentimentality, originality, a lot of things that sound rather empty. I know what they mean. Let's say, "visual impact"… — Walker Evans 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
“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
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
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
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
There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things… — Anonymous 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
If you resort to violent methods because the other side has destroyed your monastery, for example, you then have lost not only… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Better to operate with detachment, then; better to have a way but infuse it with a little humor; best, to have no… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
Detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That’s how you… — Mitch Albom 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
[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
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
In order to make room for more of God in our life, we need to let go of things that are currently… — Ralph Martin Copy Share Image
The law of karma is neither fatalistic nor punitive; nor is man a hapless, helpless victim in its bonds. God has blessed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My main goal is to stay alive. To keep fooling myself into hanging around. To keep getting up every day. Right now… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“Frequently, when I suggest to people that they detach from a person or problem, they recoil in horror. “Oh, no!” they say.… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
When you have any kind of success in life, that's like the most dangerous moment that you're in because you're going to… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“Another aspect inviting contemplation is the fact that the affective tone of any feeling depends on the type of contact that has… — Anālayo Copy Share Image
Without discipline and detachment, an actor is an emotional slob, spilling his insides out. This abandonment is having an unfortunate vogue. It… — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
“Recollection of death also serves as a useful preparation for the time when one actually has to face death. As the concluding… — Anālayo 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
“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
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
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
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
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
![“[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)
