Detached Quotes

173 quotes by 152 authors

Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult. — Prem Rawat
Detached forgivenessâ€”there is a reduction in negative feelings toward the offender, but no reconciliation takes place. Limited forgivenessâ€”there is a reduction in negative feelings toward… — R. T. Kendall
My specialty is detached malevolence. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth
I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world; all is strange to me; I am, as it were, outside… — Henri Frederic Amiel
If you're studying for an exam you're not thinking about the results. If you're always worried about the results, you can't study a lot. So… — Deepak Chopra
Give me ten truly detached men. and I will convert the world with them. — Philip Neri
To love God as He ought to be loved, we must be detached from all temporal love. We must love nothing but Him, or if… — Peter Claver
When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can… — Rabindranath Tagore
Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for having expected more.… — Tracy K. Smith
Learn from Saint ThÃ©rÃ¨se to depend on God alone and serve Him with a wholly pure and detached heart. Then, like her, you will be… — Edith Stein
I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis. — Leslie Fiedler
Wait on God and He will work, but don't wait in spiritual sulks because you cannot see an inch in front of you! Are we… — Oswald Chambers
A Dream of Undying Fame is a probing, elegant and balanced book. Louis Breger shows how Freudâ€™s traumatic childhood shaped his ambitious, detached and authoritarian… — Brenda Webster
You can get so well educated in America that your thoughts become detached from common sense. You can get so complicated in your thinking that… — Peggy Noonan
Heaven and Earth last for ever. Why do Heaven and Earth last for ever? They are unborn, so ever living. The sage stays behind, thus… — Laozi
As corporations gain in autonomous institutional power and be-come more detached from people and place, the human interest and the corporate interest increasingly diverge. It… — David Korten
Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached. — Simone Weil
What is said in James 2:14 ff. is like a two-coupon train or bus ticket. One coupon says, "Not good if detached" and the other… — Charles Caldwell Ryrie
The Tao is infinite, eternal. Why is it eternal? It was never born; thus it can never die. Why is it infinite? It has no… — Laozi
Not only has one to do one's best, one must, while doing one's best, remain detached from whatever one is trying to achieve. — Janwillem van de Wetering

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