Detachment Quote by Marya Mannes Download Open image “There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.” — Marya Mannes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Detachment Harder Important Loneliness Solitude
Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.” — Wayne Cordeiro Copy Share Image
In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Nothing is therefore more dangerous than solitude. Our imagination, forced by its very nature to unfold, nourished by the fantastic visions of poetry, gives… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I am persuaded there is no such thing after all as a perfect enjoyment of solitude; for the more delicious the solitude the more… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual,… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
the overwhelming majority of people who are engaged in the processes of thought and expression are Democrats because the essence of thought is exploration and diversity and change. It's impossible to have vision in art or government without risk, or the boldness and courage which produce risk. And this - in spite of what they call modern Republicanism - is… — Marya Mannes Copy Share
The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one feels when looking at the earth from a plane was the same sense she felt when looking at people: only her distance from people seemed longer. - Dagny Taggart — Ayn Rand Copy Share
“You need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need to be free and detached from things and your… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
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 will ever look at the earth in the same way. Man had to free himself from earth to perceive both its diminutive place in a solar system and its inestimable value as a life -fostering… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share
The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Subhuti, someone might fill innumerable worlds with the seven treasures and give all away in gifts of alms, but if any good man or any good woman awakens the thought of Enlightenment and takes even only four lines from this Discourse, reciting, using, receiving, retaining and spreading them abroad and explaining them for the benefit of others, it will be… — Siddhārtha Gautama Copy Share
I sort of gave up on this whole human adventure a long time ago, divorced myself from it emotionally. It gives me an artistic… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
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… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
Wandering, (is) considered as a state of detachment form every given point in space. — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
I tore my right shoulder to pieces - three external tears, a labrum tear, and a detachment of the bicep tendon. — Alex O'Loughlin 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 attitude toward law, the habits of the mind that he has formed or is capable of unforming, his capacity for detachment, his temperament or training for putting his passion behind his judgment instead of in front of it.… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share
Sometimes you'll see people give performances in comedy with an ironic detachment where they'll sort of be remarking on the character from outside of… — Zach Woods Copy Share Image