Quotes About Detachment

Whatever you are holding onto in this life, hold it loosely so it won't hurt when the Lord has to pry your fingers open to take it away.

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.

Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.

Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom.

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.

What could she do? Nothing. Nor did she want to. There was a choice in not making a choice. She released the sphere, let it hover there in the air.

And just stared, unmoved, as though watching a world in which she was no longer an inhabitant.

Get over it. Let it go. The longer you stay attached to being vindicated, the longer they hang around in your consciousness, stinking up your life.

Her only thought was of getting away, as if she were carrying a live grenade from inside the house, so that when it exploded, it would destroy just herself.

The trick to being abandoned was to never let yourself long for anyone who left.

It doesn't matter unless you let it matter.

When you were a kid," he continued, his voice even and low, "Your mother taught you to observe people. She also taught you not to get attached.

The trick of being abandoned was never to let yourself long for anyone who left

Nothing has to matter unless you let it.

Nothing has to matter," Grayson replied tightly, "unless you let it.

It doesn't have to be anything other than what it is. No messy feelings. No obligations. No promises. No expectations.

You know what? Why don't we just forget it? Why don't I go by myself? I think I'd rather go alone anyway.

I don't understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn't it be better to retreat to a faraway corner of the world, where all its noise and complications would be heard no more? Then we could renounce culture and ambitions; we would lose everything and gain nothing; for what is there to be gained from this world?

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I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink.

Renunciation--is a piercing Virtue-- The letting go A Presence--for an Expectation

And tho' the skies are crowded - And all the night ashine - I do not care about it - Since none of them are mine.