Quotes About Detachment

I've found the secret of happiness, total disregard of everybody.

And then comes unhappiness, and one does not become unhappy either. One says, 'A black cloud passing. I am the witness, the watcher.'

Let your greatest possession be the ability to let go of any possession, joyfully.

Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.

Happy be the reader plunged into her book who forgot the world and whom world forgot.

Absence of Kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) is indeed bliss.

Your ego interferes, your sense of self. When you let go of the mind, the Frisbee will take its own path.

What is sickness? What is health? Both are distractions. Put them both aside and go forward.

If we let the drama of others' lives become our own, then we are no longer ourselves.

Don't depend on anyone too much. Even your shadow leaves when it's dark.

People are like hot potatoes, if they don't make you happy, drop them.

It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people

Holidays, if you enjoy them, have no history.

I don't want nothing to do with y'all, I just stay home. I do drugs, lay around and take care of my family, that's it.

Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.

The darker, more complex and emotional the part is, the easier it is for me. But I don't take any of that stuff home with me at the end of the day.

I don't take characters home with me.

There is nothing I can't live without. I learned this attitude when I was a child.

The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.

When we have gone beyond the boundaries of hope and fear, we are able to work with whatever comes our way.

Salvation never will come through hope of reward.

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.