Quotes About Detachment

En una palabra, debemos alcanzar la libertad de la indiferencia, condición que hace posible la perfecta serenidad.

Ce sont justement cette répugnance, cet ennui qu'il convient de développer en nous, afin de nous démarquer de l'espèce.

that arctic blast you're feeling? it's the chill coming off my cold shoulder

There is no love lost between us.

En el mundo —le dijo Mamá, y el cigarrillo se movía a compás de sus labios como si fuera un apéndice propio— hay personas absorbentes, que creen que sólo lo suyo merece respeto. Huye de ellas, Quico, como de la peste.

To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments.

You are the sky. Everything else–it's just the weather. PEMA CHÖDRÖN, BUDDHIST

I like to go to anybody else's birthday, and if I'm invited I'm a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don't care.

I need nothing. I seek nothing. I desire nothing.

At firs,money is like the wish-fulfilling Gem Later,it becomes indispensable In the end;you feel like a penniless beggar These are my thoughts and feelings on money So I renounced both wealth and goods

I am the kind of person who, if my feelings are unrequited, can completely detach from someone emotionally if I simply put my mind to it.

It was perfectly me: pleasant enough, and then receding from immediate concern.

It's funny when you decide you don't like someone. I am the kind of person who, if my feelings are unrequited, can completely detach from someone emotionally if I simply put my mind to it. That's why I'm always saying I would be a great serial murderer.

A true master is indifferent to the ways of society.

If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely.

Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.

Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, et cetera it is the ego they cannot forgo.

Forget about your little self, detach yourself from objects, and you will radiate light and warmth. Light is wisdom; warmth is compassion

The only cure for materialism is the cleansing of the six senses (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind)

Keep to your Path, and nothing else will matter. When you lose your desire for things that do not matter, you will be free

Let him do whatever he wishes, and he will be unable to grasp on to anything to control

When you lose your desire for things that do not matter, you will be free.

Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.

Love has nothing to do with keeping those you love around.