Quotes About Detachment

We are to appreciate nature, people, and all God's gifts, along with his presence in creation—without being ensnared by them. It has rightly been said that those who are the most detached on the journey are best able to taste the purest joy in the beauty of created things.

Farraj looked at me with the clinical distaste of a chiropodist regarding a septic toenail.

The older I got the less I cared about anything.

Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.

Faith's the agreement to abandon detachment, John! To supplant a packaged security for open integrity. To agree not to learn anymore. It is the acceptance of a channel, by a man who was previously able to move on the whole terrain

If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.

If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.

It is only by maintaining a reasonable distance from the book that we may be able to appreciate its true meaning.

Do what you must, let happen what may

If I feel somebody is getting volatile and taking things in other way, I better stay away from that person.

I don't have sentimental attachments to characters at all.

I don't think I've ever gone home and not been able to shake it off. I like having my own life too much!

You can put me in the basement or the penthouse; it doesn't matter to me.

I like to mind my business when it comes to other people's business, especially when it comes to beef.

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.

I'm not a political person; I'm not an activist. I'm not a guy with strong beliefs about anything. I have nothing to say to the world.

I don't belong to anyone.

I don't care about being a literary personality - that doesn't appeal to me, especially because the literary world doesn't appeal to me. I actually don't feel like I even belong in it. If this was high school, I would be sitting with the Goths, looking at everyone, being like, 'Whatever.'

No existe nada como "yo", "mí" o "lo mío" a lo que aferrarse.

Nothing is to be clung to as 'I,' 'me,' or 'mine.

Imagine forty-five years of profound teaching distilled into one sentence: "Nothing is to be clung to as 'I,' 'me,' or 'mine.

He had fled the claustrophobic confines of his family. He'd successfully kept Jan Burres and Wayne Westerberg at arm's length, flitting out of their lives before anything was expected of him. And now he'd slipped painlessly out of Ron Franz's life as well.

He'd successfully kept Jan Burres and Wayne Westerberg at arm's length, flitting out of their lives before anything was expected of him. And now he'd slipped painlessly out of Ron Franz's life as well.

Wow, I say, politely, but I don't feel it. I'm like a sociopath when it comes to expensive cars. I feel no emotion.