Quotes About Detachment

But mostly because the news was boring and I didn't care what humans were doing to each other as long as I didn't have to a) stop it or b) clean up after it.

I try to avoid asking humans if there's anything wrong with them. (Mostly because I don't care.)

As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name.

If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let'em go, because, man, they're gone.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Love without attachment is light.

There is no love lost between us.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes. Buddha

If you start to miss me Remember, I didn't walk away You let me go...

Why must we cling to those who walk away instead of granting freedom? We must give the same liberty God gives to prodigals-an ability to let them go-or we'll be perennially bound to others for our happiness and effective service.

You have to live without love, learn not to need it in order to live with it.

She rarely showed her emotions, which appeared to have been burned out by the continual short-circuiting of her attention.

Mind you, after a time freedom can be a lonesome thing

Indifference is not caring. Detachment is caring deeply enough to separate.

comprehending little and caring less.

There is, in the end, the letting go.

Sometimes I just don't care, and everything comes.

When my mathematician husband is bored at parties, he sits quietly in a corner and does equations in his head. Only I know that he is no longer in the room. I can tell by his eyes and the contented look on his face.

Forget your sadness, anger, grudges and hatred. Let them pass like smoke caught in a breeze. Do not indulge yourself in such feelings.

You are truly mature if you can listen lightly, as if to an echo, to criticism or to vile blasphemy, no matter how unbearable, without reacting. As long as you are not attached to fame, glory, reputation, or social status, there is no need to suffer. A person without attachments has neither lifelong enemies to overthrow nor any need to flatter people in power.

Al contrario, se trata de alcanzar lo que los estoicos llaman apatheia que, a pesar del eco obvio y poco atractivo que despierta, hemos visto que significa tranquilidad mental, y también ecuanimidad hacia todo lo que la vida nos ponga en el camino.

To a Stoic, it ultimately does not matter if we think the Logos is God or Nature, as long as we recognize that a decent human life is about the cultivation of one's character and concern for other people (and even for Nature itself) and is best enjoyed by way of a proper—but not fanatical—detachment from mere worldly goods.