Quotes About Detachment

A los hombres que me apartan de mis vicios sólo para hacerme perder el tiempo, mi compañía no les resulta agradable.

Uma dose de amnésia, e duas de desapego, por favor.

Finally, it's worth noting that refusing to use social media icons & comments to interact means that some people will inevitably fall out of your social orbit - in particular, those whose relationship with you exists only over social media. Here's my tough love reassurance: let them go.

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All those men who end up disappointing you. After a while, you don't even want to have feelings anymore. You just want to get on with your life.

People who refuse to let go are becoming more common, and each case teaches us the same valuable lesson: Don't engage in a war. Wars rarely end well because by definition someone will have to lose.

Men admitted to being endlessly fascinated with the naked female form; they appreciated women in a detached, impersonal way that women, even those women who were flattered by such attention, rarely understood.

Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.

Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing.

Hate is too mild of a word. But it's nothing personal, I don't think.

Two or more glasses of wine a day can severely reduce your risk of giving a shit.

Sympathy would imply I might even try to help them. Pity is much safer. It can be delivered from on high without getting involved. I pity them.

Nothing contributes more to peace of soul than having no opinion at all.

Nothing is more conductive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Nada puede contribuir tanto a la tranquilidad del alma como no tener opinión alguna.

I learned that sometimes what you go looking for isn't as important as what you leave behind." My

Being trained as an efficient killer wasn't enough. You also had to learn to control your stress and your fear, becoming so used to violence that you could detach yourself from the trauma of it and assess the level of violence necessary to respond. When the fight-or-flight response kicked in, Mother Nature shut off our brains. It was a biological survival mechanism.

We are enriched by not what we posses, but by what we can do without.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were. ~ Kahlil Gibran

How tolerable misfortunes appear when they affect only other people! How strong the human body seems when it's another man's flesh that bleeds! How easy it is to look death in the face when it's another man's turn!

But I can't do anything for him and he can't do anything for me. We must wail in our own corners.

He was attentive but impersonal, and esteemed rather than loved.

He felt removed from reality.

Money gives you the luxury of not caring about it. You can affect to find it crass and vulgar, but see how crass and vulgar it is when there's none of it in your pocket.