Quotes About Detachment

A creature that never cries over spilt milk: a cat.

The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.

Their bodies were like corpses ready for embalming, from which all innards likely to rot had already been removed. Superfluous emotions like curiosity, fear and lust for gossip or excitement had been shed along with the useless flesh and excess fat. Javer once said that Granny Shano could as easily have grabbed the ear of Benito Mussolini himself as the Italian officer's.

Their issues are not your issues.

You have to accept that you can't change the past experiences, opinions of others at that moment in time or outcomes from their choices or yours.

Dont' try to own problems or faults that aren't yours. It's not a good longterm strategy.

Maybe she just needed out. Out of Caldwell. Out of the CCJ. Out of the electronic family of her alarm clock and the phone on her desk and the TV that kept her dreams away while she slept.

Not his circus, not his monkeys

A veces, lo mejor que podemos hacer por alguien es mantenernos alejados de él.

The thing was, though, the ridiculous, pansy-ass saying was right: If you loved someone, you set them free.

22  ââ'¬Å"These wise ones have transcended the pairs of opposites; they are the same in success or failure, indifferent to loss or gain; they never bother to compete or compare, are free of envy, and contentedly shoulder whatever comes to them. They too are not bound by karmic consequences even though performing worldly actions.

Detachment is the means for rising above worldly activities and getting to a state beyond the worldly.

Because now I am grown so old and neutral....

He no longer cared about anything (as before) but now he also cared about everything in principle; that is to say, it was all the same to him and he belonged to the world and there was nothing he could do about it.

the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams

little absent from everything in the way of a Zen Master actually who realizes that everything is indifferent anyway

You know," I said, "I think it doesn't make any difference to him anyway. He's just satisfied to wander around and forget things.

In fact it didn't make a goddamn much of a difference to him. "I'm neutral," said he, laughing happily with a kind of an eager slaking leer, and Japhy yelled: "Neutral is what Buddhism is!

I don't do any social media. I'm not on Facebook or Twitter. I'm just not interested.

I'm not on Twitter, nor Facebook, or LinkedIn, or any of these systems, because they suck in your soul and they will not let you go. Try to get out of any of them, and you will see. They are just like some religions where apostasy is punished by death.

I don't read Twitter.

I don't care what people are saying about me, good or bad, in blogs or on Twitter or in the media. There will always be people who don't like you and don't like your books. Ignore them.

I've never been the type to be on social media all the time.

I am really not the relationship type.