Quotes About Detachment

In Mumbai, I feel like a stranger.

She felt either apathy or hostility toward almost everyone, and she was happy that way.

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. —ROBERT J. SAWYER, Calculating God

Once you realize that you can turn off the noise without the world ending, you're liberated in a way that few people ever know

Me di cuenta de que distanciarse de la situación, para poder ver lo que está pasando, es crucial.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone." –Henry David Thoreau

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace." –Robert J. Sawyer

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone." –Henry David Thoreau American essayist and philosopher, author of Walden "What gets measured gets managed." –Peter Drucker Considered "the founder of modern management," author of The Effective Executive "Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike." –Oscar Wilde Irish writer, author of The Picture of Dorian Gray

Not my circus. Not my monkeys.

Our life is frittered away by detail…. Simplify, simplify…. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." —Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Eastern styles of meditation do not require that you create mental stillness by blocking out your thoughts. Instead, they suggest that you observe your thought processes in a detached way.

Die Nacht, die Stimmung auf dem Schiff und wieder dieses völlige Losgelöstsein von der gewöhnlichen Welt hatten mir jenes rauschhafte Freiheitsgefühl erweckt, das meine Droge ist.

On sentait ce détachement de toutes les choses de ce monde qui terrifie un homme en vie.

The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.

I don't really care about, Oh I really have to sell these things.

I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.

I'm not online. I'm not on Facebook much. I don't connect that way.

I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.

One should never take sides in anything, Mr. Kelvil. Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

A ti te gusta todo el mundo, o lo que es lo mismo, no te importa nadie

To become the spectator of one's own life, as Harry says, is to escape the suffering of life. I

To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery(the media) that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that is required for a clear view of the monstrous drama. The will-to-power operating under a pure democratic disguise has finished off its masterpiece so well that the object's sense of freedom is actually flattered by the most thorough-going enslavement that has ever existed