Detachment Quotes
172 Detachment quotes by 139 unique authors
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A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I had the right amount of detachment to go back and really appreciate what I had grown up with. There’s a particular style that is…
— Mario Testino
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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
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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
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The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God.
— Radhanath Swami
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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
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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
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The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.
— Victor Garber
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
— May Sarton
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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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It's a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to what he believes, who has stifled intellectual detachment and can relax in the…
— Alexander Pushkin
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Detachment is the ultimate pleasure.
— Saraha
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The saying goes, 'The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.' This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress cannot…
— Zhuangzi
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Our technological society has no longer any place in it for wisdom that seeks truth for its own sake, that seeks the fullness of being,…
— Thomas Merton
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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
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By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Is not virtue a negation of becoming?
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Identification prevents and perverts the flow of thought-feeling.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.
— Aristotle
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Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to…
— Aristotle
Who Wrote These Detachment Quotes
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