Quotes About Detachment

I simply don't become attached to the outer world or to anything. I work for God. I do the very best I can, and then I give the results to Him.

Don't stress out about the things you can't control.

Spending hours stressed out in front of the TV isn't the same as volunteering or donating. Feeling a high level of personal distress makes people feel agitated and emotionally drained, to the point that they lack the energy or detachment to help - or the energy to manage themselves.

I believe that if I come home from a stressful day on the set, I just have to leave it there.

I think having a dispassionate eye is a good way of making art. When you don't know the structures of a place, you are unencumbered.

If I can't find a way to love it, I let it go. Kind of the opposite of the popular homily.

He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered.

All the crap that we've encumbered our lives with, it's really meaningless.

If you ask me, we actors have this amazing ability to detach ourselves from an emotion and just do it for the camera.

I find I often do my best work when I'm not attached to the outcome of the audition.

I think I can be closed in. I can close this outer shell, cut myself off and be quite cold. I can cut other people off if I need to. I don't think I'm angry, though... Maybe my wife would disagree.

I guess I've always been something of an outsider.

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

I've always thought that there are many things still left in society that are detached from the sense of ordinary people. I won't overlook them and I will determine what is right before taking bold action.

This may sound like a huge task, but it's not. It's simply a matter of learning to recognize the things that don't matter so that you can let them go.

Life doesn't give a fuck who's living it.

Love mans knowing when to let go.

I suspected it was just that I no longer cared so much. And that felt like the saddest thing in the world

Love means knowing when to let go.

Oh, dear me!" he lamented. "The raft has floated off and I suppose it's gone down that awful hole by now." "Well, never mind. We're not on it," said Snufkin gaily. "What's a kettle here or there when you're out looking for a comet!

Allting blir svårt när man vill äga saker, bära dem med sig och ha dem. Jag bara tittar på dem och när jag går min väg har jag dem inne i huvudet och kan ha roligare saker för mig än att bära kappsäckar.

She could easily have remarked on the heavy skiing weather, or asked how he could even see the road, or complained about the town not getting its ploughs out-- anything at all to show interest or pretend to show interest, the way people talk to make things a little more pleasant-- but no, not Katri Kling. There she stood squinting through her cigarette smoke, her black hair like a mane shrouding her face as she leaned over the table.

Hold it lightly.

No matter what we do in this life, all the information we gather and all the knowledge we accumulate and all the effort we make to amass wealth through work and business—when the time comes for us to leave this life, all of it is futile and in vain. It will not help us in any way whatsoever. I can easily say this since I am not educated at all! So I can smile and act big about this. Don't be angry, please.