Quotes About Detachment

You can't fix it. You can't make it go away.I don't know what you're going to do about it,But I know what I'm going to do about it. I'm justgoing to walk away from it.

ALRIGHT then, be a Zen monk. But you wait and see. You'll be happy and bright. You'll laugh. People will envy and ridicule you. You won't care. (sigh)

Better to operate with detachment, then; better to have a way but infuse it with a little humor; best, to have no way at all but to have instead the wit constantly to make one's way anew from the materials at hand.

If I dare to foresee a promising future other than that which the technocrats (the power elite) have been confidently extrapolating, it is because I have found by personal experience that it is far easier to detach oneself from the system and to make a selective use of its facilities than the promoters of the Affluent Society would have their docile subjects believe.

Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.

Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.

Well, one doesn't try to hold Cass and Denny and Michelle together. It's a useless task to start with. You just sort of stay out of the way and let things roll as they can.

If I'm not using something, I tend to sell it and move on, so I'm not too sentimental about hardware synths.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being 'happy' or 'unhappy' in the usual meaning of the words.

Treat Death as it treats us: with utter indifference.

I don't watch most of the movies I'm in. Ever. They're like a bad relationship where, after you break up, you don't want to look over all the valentines.

I don't get attached to anything. I'm like a good antique dealer. I'm prepared to sell my most valuable table.

She sat silent, looking straight ahead. What did he care about the hot sun on her head? What did she care? Nothing worse could possibly happen to her.

If they opt out, bless them—because you won't have to waste time, money, or hopes on them.

It takes much longer to leave the psychic place than the physical place. (p.120)

To escape from the weight of the world, I leave my body where it is, in conversation or at dinner, and walk through a series of winding streets to a house standing back from the road.

He loves books,' said Perdita. 'Yeah. He does. When you've finished a book you can put it away and it doesn't ask to see you again.

It takes much longer to leave the psychic place than the physical place.

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I've dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest.

The True Person benefits yet expects no reward, does the work and moves on. There is no desire to be considered better than others.

You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance

I'm working on new techniques. I'm trying to find a way to make fresco that can be detached from a wall, and I'm trying to find new people who can help me work on a very large scale in bronze.

I don't like being consumed by work all the time. I consume myself so much when I do a part that I like to step away from it.