Quotes About Detachment

I have come to a point where I have accepted that not everyone is meant to be friends.

So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.

I work very hard every day not to have a lot of expectations. You just let go of the results, because a book will be on bookshelves and in libraries long after we're gone, and, in some ways, whatever happens is none of our business.

Letting emotion get into it isn't part of my game. Letting animosity or a rivalry come into it, that's all for the show.

I've learned to let things roll off my back.

I couldn't care less if I make a fourth-round U.S. Open or I lose first round. To me, everything is the same.

When you have rubbish stuff coming your way, you have to let go.

Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.

I don't want sadness or happiness to affect my life.

I don't have to go around trying to save everybody anymore; that's not my job.

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

Sometimes I see myself as a locked box - very detached from myself and others. But I feel lucky, because I am the owner of my time, and you cannot buy time.

I tend to detach myself from movies once I'm done shooting them, because after that, it's in the hands of God. And it doesn't help if I panic.

I don't read the papers or watch TV.

When I leave the car park at Melwood, I try and become a completely different person. I try to get away from it. You have got to. Otherwise you end up like Jamie Carragher - obsessed!

One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.

I see something that I don't like, I prefer not to participate and say, 'Look, I'll leave you to it, I wish you the best, a lot of luck and I support you, but I don't want to be there.'

I was in Kashi to take the holy dip, and when you go to Kashi you have to give up something that you enjoy the most. I gave up shopping, particularly sarees, from thereon. I now only buy the essential items.

I don't go to the openings of shops or parties given by people I don't know.

I don't go to parties in general.

So many writers live their whole lives in rooms. You can be too civilised in the environment you have around you, too oriented towards speaking engagements and literary festivals and dinner parties. That has no interest for me these days. You get to a point where you don't care anymore. At that point, you can start to write.

Love everything but do not strive to possess anything.

Simplicity The primary issue here is to remove distractions and remain free from attachments.

Detachment is the great secret of interior peace.