Detachment Quotes

172 Detachment quotes by 139 unique authors

Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself. — Albert Ellis
The warrior knows that he is free to choose his desires, and he makes these decisions with courage, detachment, and - sometimes - with just… — Paulo Coelho
The benefits of detachment in the face of intense emotional activity can’t be overstated. It doesn’t cut you off from your heart center; it opens… — Sonia Choquette
Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it. — Ram Dass
Don't expect anything from anybody, this is also a great freedom. Don't expect things to be different or people to be in service to you… — Mooji
Regard as free not those whose status makes them outwardly free, but those who are free in their character and conduct. For we should not… — Anthony the Great
Detachment does not mean non-involvement. You can be deeply involved but not entangled. — Jaggi Vasudev
I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the… — Ed Westwick
Since We have created you all from one same substance it is incumbent on you to be even as one soul, to walk with the… — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
The importance of detachment from things, the importance of poverty, is that we are supposed to be free from things that we might prefer to… — Thomas Merton
Says Bargh: "We all hold dear idea that we´re the captain of our own sould, and we´re in charge, and it´s a very scary feeling… — Leonard Mlodinow
[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… — Stanley Tucci
It may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is 'useful;' but only through participation is it possible to gain the knowledge that is… — Harry Stack Sullivan
Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to… — James Dickey
The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment. — Raymond Chandler
Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. — Isabel Allende
Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment. — Allen Tate
The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but… — John Desmond Bernal
In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of… — Nancy Pearcey
Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on thin air, growing… — Andrew Solomon
Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no… — Edward St Aubyn
All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes… — Adam Gopnik
Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of… — Bede Griffiths
For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress… I think that you can actually give… — Nan Goldin
The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances. — Bodhidharma

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