Quotes About Detachment

One good thing about being locked in a cage: No responsibility!

I will not bond. I will not share. I refuse to nurture.

it was like staring at a whitewashed wall, but without all the emotion

if any of your body parts become detached due to an unfortunate encounter with a crank, I highly advise you leave said body part behind and run like hell. Unless it's a leg, of course.

Please believe me. I've nothing against you personally. It's just that I laugh at all jokes.

I don't hate you, because hate is a feeling and I feel absolutely nothing for you.

When we are caught up in a destructive emotion, we lose one of our greatest assets: our independence.

Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality.

The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

If you let go a little you will have a little happiness. If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.

The secret of happiness is renunciation.

Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.

I follow four dictates: face it, accept it, deal with it, then let it go.

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.

What is the world full of? It is full of things that arise, persist, and cease. Grasp and cling to them, and they produce suffering. Don't grasp and cling to them, and they do not produce suffering.

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.

Learn to hold loosely all that is not eternal.

True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way.

Some things don't need to be cut back. They need to be cut off.

Everything I've ever let go of has claw marks on it.

Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

Someone else's action should not determine your response.