Quotes About Detachment

Try this! throw one stone in the air and think. This stone could only consider itself to be free, if it could forget the hand that hath thrown it. I will share a secret of bob marley and I reasonings with you. Listen, he sang, no chains around my feet, yet I'm not free!. Where, and from whom do you think he got that?

Nothing to be proud of, nothing to regret.

My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential.

You don't have to work at what you are. Part of what you are is what you think you are, but what you think you are is not all of what you are. It is just an aspect of what you are. Being buddha means being unattached to your thoughts about what you are. If you think you are a worthy person or an unworthy person, not grasping those thoughts is buddha.

Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.

It's not like I have campaigns, I don't want to be an activist or anything.

I don't care if I don't act anymore.

I am not affected or carried away by success or failure.

We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.

I was not someone who participated in other people's castles.

'Downton Abbey' has become this huge thing, and I really enjoy the success of it, but I sometimes find myself on the outside looking in, which is sort of a healthy way to look at it so you don't get too caught up in it.

I'm trying to not get too caught up in what I can't control.

We are kind of one step removed, not really in the center of things.

I just try not to be at the centre of everything.

You'll never see me at award ceremonies.

You're playing a role, but you're still feeling it. You can walk away from it after 'Cut,' but if you're playing a sad or mixed-up person, it's hard to stay in that place for these longish period of times. You kind of have to check out.

Honestly, I don't really care what people say on Twitter or what they say if they are cheering for me or not cheering for me.

Whatever the crowd is - cheering, booing or whatever - it's not anything I bother to think about.

There's nothing colder than chemistry.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.

I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.

It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community.

You'd be surprised how difficult it is relinquish a cell phone.