Quotes About Detachment

Don't make someone your everything. If they leave, you'll have nothing.

It doesn't make sense to let go of something you have wanted for so long, but it also doesn't make sense to hold on when there's nothing there.

Relationships sink when they have too many passengers.

Never give permanent feelings to a temporary person...

Never shed a tear for someone who isn't there to wipe them away.

Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go & it will be yours forever.

Sometimes you don't see appreciation or results in order to purify your acts from the attachment to anything other than His pleasure.

It's better sometimes to not care than to be too good, people will always take what they never stress to get for granted, easy come, easy go.

By now the only part of me now seating were my eyeballs.

The future is simple. The future is simple, I can hold it i the palm of my hand; and the present is just a matter of endurance, detachment, and a sense of humor.

The best way to spend the happiest life is to know nothing.

Your life can get better if you realize it is better never to expect anything from anyone, not even from God.

But now I feel off the grid. I feel that I am not part of the culture. And because I don't have a car I don't really go anywhere to buy things. In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own.

Is life too short to be taking this shit, or is life too short to be minding it?

Let go of him, for cryin' out loud!

Nishkâma Karma, or work without desire or attachment.

To work we have the right, but not to the fruits thereof:" Leave the fruits alone. Why care for results? If you wish to help a man, never think what that man's attitude should be towards you. If you want to do a great or a good work, do not trouble to think what the result will be.

Who sows must reap," they say, "and cause must bring The sure effect; good, good; bad, bad; and none Escape the law. But whoso wears a form Must wear the chain." Too true; but far beyond Both name and form is Âtman, ever free. Know thou art That, Sannyâsin bold! Say — "Om Tat Sat, Om!

To work we have the right, but not to the fruits thereof:

Be unattached, expect nothing in return, attachment comes only where we expect a return, love shines in freedom alone.

This is the intimacy that will bind us all our lives, holding us forever to the task implicit in all love relations: how to connect yet not merge, how to respond yet not be absorbed, how to detach but not withdraw.

No one can be a humbug for five-and-twenty years. Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.

Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.

To be free is often to be lonely.