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Quotes About Detachment

The greatest win is walking away and choosing not to engage in drama and toxic energy at all.
~ Lalah Delia
And this way, l'll leave everything behind before it gets the chance to do the same to me.
~ Holly Smale, Picture Perfect
The amount of abhorrence that departs, that much of 'Pure Love' arises. When abhorrence goes away completely, then Pure Love arises in totality. This is the only way.
~ Dada Bhagwan
One can become 'Embodiment of Love' [Prem Swaroop], only when there is no my-ness [mamata].
~ Dada Bhagwan
And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own.
~ Kamand Kojouri
Being hypnotized by content is a disease.
~ Bert McCoy
When can one attain samadhi (eternal blissful continuous peace)? It comes when one lets go of the things that he loves the most.
~ Dada Bhagwan
I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Just as in matters of seduction, people lend the most to those who need them the least.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
He is not you, not a member of your family, so he has no direct emotional loss should your health experience a degradation.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
BaÅŸar? olsun ya da olmas?n aya??n?z yere bast???nda, insanlar?n düÅŸünceleri kar??s?nda kendinizi daha kay?ts?z ve dayan?kl?, daha özgür, daha gerçek hissedersiniz.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
He was too calm and cool an observer. Phoebe felt his eye, often; his heart, seldom or never.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hey, says Hayden, I'm Switzerland; neutral as can be, and also with great chocolate. Get lost, Roland tells him. Already am. And Hayden strolls away.
~ Neal Shusterman
can't see why I should concern myself with humankind at all.
~ Neal Shusterman
The result leaves my brain somewhere in orbit beyond Saturn, where it can't bother anyone, especially me.
~ Neal Shusterman
His eyes had a careworn coolness to them as if he had seen more than he should, and had stopped caring in order to save what was left of his soul.
~ Neal Shusterman
Most people, however, didn't take a position either way. They just wanted to disappear into the pleasantries of their lives. As long as when bad thing happened, they happened somewhere else, to someone they didn't know, it was not their problem.
~ Neal Shusterman
People empty me. I have to get away to refill.
~ Charles Bukowski
I have one problem, I don't hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I have an escape mechanism.
~ Charles Bukowski
Forgive me, I guess I am off in the head, but I mean, except for a quickie piece of ass it wouldn't matter to me if all the people in the world died. Yes, I know it's not nice. But I'd be as contended as a snail; it was, after all, the people who had made me unhappy.
~ Charles Bukowski
People don't do me much good.
~ Charles Bukowski
the best part was pulling down the shades stuffing the doorbell with rags putting the phone in the refrigerator and going to bed for 3 or 4 days. and the next best part was nobody ever missed me.
~ Charles Bukowski
there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed. it let me alone.
~ Charles Bukowski
I am not a snob; it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what they want to do — mostly with my time.
~ Charles Bukowski