"...for me there is too little of life……" — M.F.K. Fisher
"...for me there is too little of life to spend most of it forcing myself into detachment from it."
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68 Quotes by M.F.K. Fisher
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A well-made Martini or Gibson, correctly chilled and nicely served, has been more often my true friend than any two-legged…
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For me, a plain baked potato is the most delicious one....It is soothing and enough.
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In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We…
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There are may of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard…
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Probably no strychnine has sent as many husbands into their graves as mealtime scolding has, and nothing has driven more…
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Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied…
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There is a communication of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is…
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. . . gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or…
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Or you can broil the meat, fry the onions, stew the garlic in the red wine...and ask me to supper.…
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I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to,…
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Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.
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It is easy to think of potatoes, and fortunately for men who have not much money it is easy to…
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More Detachment Quotes
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The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience,…
— John le Carre
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When a general, unable to estimate the enemy's strength, allows an inferior force to engage a larger one, or hurls…
— Sun Tzu
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...for those whose favorite season is autumn with its days of cloudless sky, of spacious and clear, far-flung panoramas -…
— Charlton Ogburn
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Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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The mind and spirit of man advance when he is tried by suffering. ... so suffering and tribulation free man…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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The 'I' casts off the illusion of the 'I' and yet remains 'I'. Such is the paradox of Self-realization. The…
— Ramana Maharshi
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Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the…
— Ramana Maharshi
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To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true…
— Sharon Salzberg
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Compassion without detachment is attachment to the bodily platform.
— Radhanath Swami
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My approach is neither of attachment nor of detachment, but of simple understanding.
— Rajneesh
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We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ''I will be a saint'' means I will despoil myself…
— Mother Teresa
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Transcendence or detachment, leaving the body, pure love, lack of jealousy-that's the vision we are given in our culture, generally,…
— Robert Bly
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