Detachment Quotes

172 quotes by 139 authors

Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and it also exposes… — Guy Debord
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 not the same… — Lorrie Moore
The true contemplative is one who has discovered the art of finding leisure even in the midst of his work, by working with such a… — Thomas Merton
Detachment is a flaw, not a virtue-donâ€™t you realize that? — Steven Erikson
No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say that no one… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success. — Mahatma Gandhi
I had the right amount of detachment to go back and really appreciate what I had grown up with. Thereâ€™s a particular style that is… — Mario Testino
Woman's soul is present and lives more intensely in all parts of the body, and it is inwardly affected by that which happens to the… — Edith Stein
Suppose we were (as we might be) an influence, an idea, a thing intangible, invulnerable, without front or back, drifting about like a gas? Armies… — T.E. Lawrence
The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God. — Radhanath Swami
Confusion is a gift from God. Those times when you feel most desperate for a solution, sit. Wait. The information will become clear. The confusion… — Unknown Author
In detachment lies the wisdom of uncertainty...in the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, which is the prison of… — Deepak Chopra
The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings. — Victor Garber
To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference,… — Sam Snead
Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. The soul that is attached to anything,… — John of the Cross
In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of… — Salvatore Quasimodo
However, the serious seeker of detachment will have to embrace the Holy Trinity of Ss - Solitude, Stillness and Silence - and reject the new… — Michael Foley
Those who conquer their minds are beings of renunciation and detachment. They are beings of renunciation and detachment they are lovingly focused on the True… — Guru Nanak
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment. — May Sarton
When mystics use the word love, they use it very carefully - in the deeply spiritual sense, where to love is to know; to love… — Eknath Easwaran

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