Quotes About Detachment

With this girl – girl three in the queue – her story had made her so sad that she did not know the name of the place where she was at and she did not want to know. The girl was not even curious.

Going through the motions, like a person who was already dead and just didn't know it yet.

Even if she realized that they didn't want her overhearing their conversation, she didn't seem to care at all.

Manfred sapeva assai bene che esiste una sorta di bravura che lascia del tutto fredda la persona in gamba.

Do not make the mistake of thinking that you can defend yourself against this. You can't. Just walk away. Don't try to make your case. At the end of the day, you will be judged by your behavior—not your words. Walking away is very powerful.

The professional ideal of "detached concern" among medical practitioners represents this blend of closeness and distance.1 Many physicians believe it is a prerequisite for effective patient care. But, much like oil and water, detachment and concern do not mix easily.

Passionate subjects must be dealt with in cold blood.

These people," she said. "These people who die and you never knew them. What are you supposed to feel?" She really wanted me to tell her. She really thought that I would know. "Nothing," I said, tossing the key on her bed. "You're not supposed to feel anything.

Güzel bir söz vard?r: hiçbir ÅŸey. Hiçbir ÅŸey düÅŸünme. BaÅŸbakan? düÅŸünme, Katolikleri de düÅŸünme. Küvette aÄŸlayan, terliklerine kahve damlayan o palyaçoyu düÅŸün.

I will not get upset over men, but instead be poised and cool ice-queen.

If you wish to be truly free, you must love no one.

If you wish to be truly free, you must love no one. But of course if you take that path you may also find that in the end you're unloved.

Easy to see the solution when you're not in the story, isn't it.

Er verhehlte auch nie sein Desinteresse an etwas, gehörte zu denen, deren Nähe man nicht sucht, deren Fremdheit zugleich dauerirritiert.

There is but one thing needfulto possess God. All our senses, all our powers of mind and soul, all our external resources, are so many ways of approaching the divinity, so many modes of tasting and of adoring God. We must learn to detach ourselves from all that is capable of being lost, to bind ourselves absolutely only to what is absolute and eternal, and to enjoy the rest as a loan...

If I'm ever to reach any understanding of myself and the things around me, I must learn to stand alone. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

No es difícil soltar nuestros derechos; finalmente, son cosas externas a nosotros, ligadas a nuestra relación con la sociedad. Lo difícil es soltarnos a nosotros mismos.

How can the New Life deliver itself from the still-persistent past? A ready solution of the difficulty would be TO DIE. . . . If we cannot die altogether, . . . the most we can do is to die as much as we can. . . . To die to any environment is to withdraw correspondence with it, to cut ourselves off, so far as possible, from all communication with it. So that the solution of the problem will simply be this, for the spiritual life to reverse continuously the processes of the natural life.

Engaged, yet detached. Active, yet calm. Moving, yet still. This is how it is to be awake in the world.

I am reaching the end of my career this detachment has started to fade. I am less frightened by failure – I have come to accept it and feel less threatened by it and hopefully have learned from the mistakes I made in the past. I can dare to be a little less detached. Besides, with advancing age I can no longer deny that I am made of the same flesh and blood as my patients and that I am equally vulnerable.

I made up my mind that I would hold on to nothing, that I would expect nothing, that henceforth I would live as an animal, a beast of prey, a rover, a plunderer.

You used to frustrate me with your shallow embrace Now you don't make me feel anything