Quotes About Detachment

I just want you to know that it makes me feel like shit to do this." "And Jonah paused," Michael told me. "And then he said to me, no joke, he said, 'You know, I really don't care how you feel.'" Michael shook his head. "It was icy.

The only way to avoid despair was not to involve himself at all.

Joey aveva sorriso con furia per impedirsi di piangere. La sua ferita gli sembrava strutturale, come se lui e suo padre avessero scelto le proprie idee politiche al solo scopo di odiarsi, e l'unico modo per uscirne fosse il distacco.

I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.

Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.

La manifestación de aquello que es único en cada ser, en todos los casos y todas las personas, nunca podrá salir a luz con plenitud si antes no atraviesa una etapa de enfrentamiento con el pensamiento ajeno, con la opinión de la mayoría y con la parte del mundo que quiere dejar siempre todo «como está». No hay libertad sin pasar por el proceso de desapego de todo lo que los demás esperan de uno.

Lo que más admiro en los demás es la ironía, la capacidad de verse de lejos y no tomarse en serio. Después, el valor y la humildad, siempre que no sea ostentosa.

A semmit hagyom senkire.

Calm Down what happens happens mostly without you.

Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It's a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.

Attachment. That's what keeps us from recognizing when our opinions are off the mark and rethinking them. To unlock the joy of being wrong, we need to detach. I've learned that two kinds of detachment are especially useful: detaching your present from your past and detaching your opinions from your identity.

Furthermore, unlike many other great predators of history, from Genghis Khan to the Spanish conquistadors, King Leopold II never saw a drop of blood spilled in anger. He never set foot in the Congo. There is something very modern about that, too, as there is about the bomber pilot in the stratosphere, above the clouds, who never hears screams or sees shattered homes or torn flesh.

The million different answers to 'Why not let it go?' have just as many good ones among them as the million you can get from 'Why should I let it go?

I'm suddenly struck by the notion of how one becomes remote in one's own life.

Never get involved. That's my motto. I hurt no one. And no one can hurt me.

I felt as if I were watching myself from above, unable to comprehend the happiness of the people around me.

Who neither touched nor spoke? whose nape, whose finger-ends nervelessly lied the hours away?

a precise, detached calliper-grip holds the stars and the quarter-                           moon in arrest:

I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.

I'm not deceived by people, because I don't pay attention to people.

I don't pay attention to how I feel about anything.

In life, sometimes it pays off when you really don't give a damn.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

I don't know what happened, but I lost the desire to acquire more things. It's very peaceful to have lost that desire.