Quotes About Detachment

I like people. I like watching them. It's just I'd prefer to do it from a mile away using very poweful binoculars.

Wie weet, wordt mijn Ziel steeds gezonder, of misschien ook niet - ik heb van die dingen erg weinig verstand - maar in ieder geval trekt hij zich tegenwoordig van heel wat zaken geen bal meer aan.

One day at a time. He had also added that it's a good rule not to take anything personally. We think that everything revolves around us: both what other people do and what they don't do. It's almost never true. Things happen and that's it; most other people are uninterested in us, for good or ill.

I lost all feeling a long time ago. Basketball is basketball. It doesn't matter what floor I'm on.

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

Just because you've become tired of emotion, or outgrown it, doesn't mean it'll be simple to free yourself from it. It must be dismantled, not ignored.

Não é preciso vigor nenhum para conquistar seja o que for», dizia ele, «tudo está podre e se rende, mas largar, saber deixar ir, isso é que conta.»

Lasciatemi così come una cosa posata in un angolo e dimenticata

Nothing apparently, disturbed the mans air of having his mind on something more important than you. You wanted to slap him.

But what's heartbreak? A feeling. I've had it with feelings, even if they haven't had it with me.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

As we started on our journey, I noticed that without possessions, I felt oddly free.

The art of life is being extremely serious about it and not caring about it at all, both at the same time.

"Drama" can not grow unless you feed it with your energy and presence. Turn around. Walk away. Let it go...

Self-reflection is the first step to decluttering because it's not about the stuff.

She did not feel sad; she did not feel anything. She seemed to have moved into a quiet state beyond human emotion.

A fly does not mind dying in coconut cream.

He had learned to get along without her. Her meaning was forgotten. There was no place for her in his scheme of things, as there was no place for him in hers.

tüm s?radan ac?lara kar?? duyars?zlaÅŸt?.

He had a method of accepting things, without questioning the why and wherefore. 

He was never disturbed over why a thing happened.  How it happened was sufficient for him. 

Farmer hauled before constabulary court after attack upon the person of Bose Coggindell, Fellow of the Institute, 54th Degree, in self-justification: "These chaps have it easy. They lean back in their chairs and say, 'Suffer, you'll love it. Do it the hard way. Sweat.' They'd like me to hitch my wife to a plow, the way it used to be done. So I showed him what I thought of what he calls 'detachment'." Justice (after fining farmer 75 SVU):

A detached attitude toward the problems of others is not illegal.

And there was another melancholy - different yet somehow similar - which came to Gersen as he watched the debonair folk about him. They were all graceful and easy, untouched by the toil and pain and terror that existed on remote worlds. Gersen envied them their detachment, their social skills. Still, would he change places with any of them? Hardly.