Quotes About Detachment

I haven't been hung up on the international scene, I'm not sitting there waiting on the Ireland squad to be announced to see if I am in it.

I don't really look too much into the social media side. With the fans not at the stadiums, a lot of people have got a lot to say on social media. I try to stay off it even if we've won the game or lost the game, it doesn't really matter to me.

Whatever things a man gives up, By those he cannot suffer pain.

He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.

Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters.

Don't have a cow, man.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: either he abandons all earthly interests, or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.

Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.

Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny.

Afflictive emotions — our jealousy, anger, hatred, fear — can be put to an end. When you realize that these emotions are only temporary, that they always pass on like clouds in the sky, you also realize they can ultimately be abandoned.

I don't care one straw.

What is done let us leave alone.

Humility cannot exist without love, and love cannot exist without humility. It is impossible for these virtues to exist except where there is great detachment from all created things.

One of these is love for each other; the second, detachment from all created things; the third, true humility, which, although I put it last, is the most important of the three and embraces all the rest.

The happy result of detachment is inner freedom, freedom from worry about bodily comfort, honor, and wealth. Considering

how much we owe to the Lord for bringing us to a place where we are so free from business matters, occasions of sin and the society of worldly people.

Our Father, St. John of the Cross, says with great truth: "All good things have come unto me, since I no longer sought them for myself.

Having forsaken all things, a man should forsake himself.

The most acceptable prayer is the one offered with the utmost spirituality and radiance; its prolongation hath not been and is not beloved by God. The more detached and the purer the prayer, the more acceptable is it in the presence of God.

He abused me, he beat me, he defeated me, he robbed me,"--in those who do not harbour such thoughts hatred will cease.

The detached observer is as much entangled as the active participant; the only advantage of the former is insight into his entanglement, and the infinitesimal freedom that lies in knowledge as such.

Letting go doesn't mean not caring, it means not taking responsibility for what other people do, feel or think.