Quotes About Detachment

It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

I'm just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else's. I'm sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It's disgusting.

Summer was his foe with all its heat, noise, plump water, and bladed grasses belonging to the flowers, mosquitos, frogs, and twittering cicadas—little lives and little bugs. All he deserved was the silence of a chilling night, the detachment of cold winter. He saw himself as a dwindling man of winter.

To escape from the world means that one's mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.

All afflictions and deficiencies of life originate from the mind's attachment and clinging.

he is incapable of examining his own pain like a spore on a slide and finding it interesting, interesting. If your own pain is interesting to yo, how much more detached will you be from somebody else's pain...

Take your eyes off what you lost.

The point I'm trying to make is that we should let enlightenment take care of itself.

Psychological detachment from work, in addition to physical detachment, is crucial

But Empathy—like many of the other high-concept, high-touch aptitudes—wasn't always given its proper due in the Information Age. It was often considered a softhearted nicety in a world that demanded hardheaded detachment. To undermine an argument or dismiss an idea, you just had to call it "touchy-feely.

The differences in the two thinking styles, as Baron-Cohen describes them, are intriguing. "Systematizing involves exactness, excellent attention to local detail," and an attraction to fixed rules independent of context, he says. "To systematize, you need detachment." 21 (Baron describes autism as an "extreme" male brain.)

It serves anyone, when they're going into some project, to try to distance themselves from the material so you can really have an objective viewpoint.

I have already disassociated myself from my husband's views.

The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me at all.

Something which is easy for me to give is money. I feel detached from it. I look after myself and my family but I won't forget people who struggle. My father lives in Senegal. They are from the smaller villages and know how to distribute money to people who need it.

Latin [...], it was the sign of being able to detach yourself from here and now, abstract your understanding of words, train your memory and live solitary in your head with only books for company. So it was meant to be hard, but I found it wonderfully easy, for just these reasons. I fell in love with Latin.

Violet, surveying him with a cruel detachment, had never felt less married.

Voelde zij, dat het leven over alles wat van ons is, geluk of smart, heenradert met zijn onverschillige jubelkarren en dat het maar het beste is om niets te geven en te voelen, ook niets?

It was not a matter of choosing sides, it was a matter of rising above the whole concept of sideness.

How empty of me to be so full of you.

Love wants the best for others. Attachment takes hostages.

Everything he let go of had claw marks on it.

holding on to resentments only binds you to the person you hate.

Their reasons are their own,' he finally said. 'I don't have to care.