Quotes About Detachment

I don't really pay attention to the news or stuff like that or what's going on in politics.

There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.

Just because you lost me as a friend, doesn't mean you gained me as an enemy. I'm bigger than that, I still wanna see you eat, just not at my table.

pendant qu'un détenu se coupe les veines et s'effondre dans son sang, ses compagnons de cellule terminent tranquillement le petit déjeuner. « Un homme perd son sang sous mes yeux et je lèche le fond de mon écuelle en ne pensant qu'au moment où l'on va me rapporter encore à manger. Reste-t-il encore en moi, en nous qui sommes ici, quelque chose d'humain ? »

Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

If you're being swept away, off somewhere, then why count the pebbles on the shore; they're on the shore, after all.

Take everything that's yours with you, don't save any -- it won't be needed later.

Remember, if you hold something close enough, you lose your ability to see it.

I feel a loosened Band-Aid release itself from my ankle and fall off, but I don't turn around to pick it up. I don't care about litter because I am immortal.

It's easier for a rich man to ride that camel through the eye of a needle directly into the Kingdom of Heaven, than for some of us to give up our cell phone.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

Inner liberation can be described as a condition in which you no longer take either credit or blame for anything.

The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.

Your non attachment to the mundane is your charm. Your attachment to the divine is your beauty.

Sometimes the best way to solve a problem is to just stop caring.

Dispassion is the best of mental states. . . .

There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.

If only I could be hidden in a corner, so as not to be tempted to worry about things that are not really my business.

I minded my own business, and, unfortunately, so did everyone else.

How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.

If I leave my phone in the car and go to dinner or something for a few hours, I'm very proud of myself.

A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?

You have to unhook your seat belt." "That's not true." "I'm afraid it's difficult to walk on the beach if you're strapped to a car seat.

When the appearances of this life dissolve, May I, with ease and great happiness, Let go of all attachments to this life As a son or daughter returning home.