Quotes About Detachment

I've had a couple of experiences. It can get scary. Especially when you're on TV and you're in someone's home every week and they feel like they know you. If you don't know them back, they don't understand. They've become detached. But most of the time, fans are great.

The essence of the Way is detachment.

Is that bad? Detachment in the sense that I can't be going to every party, showing my face, talking to the press and telling them what I am wearing to the bathroom or where I eat. I would rather see a purpose to that.

He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.

Don't respond to haters' taunts - even politely. Ignore them. If nobody takes their bait, most will grow bored and move on.

Politics is not my cup of tea.

The thing about being an outsider... is that it teaches you to hear what people are thinking because you're constantly looking for the people who just don't give a damn.

Keep your love, I have no use for it anymore.

He who stands in need of nothing cannot be bound by anything.

Europe's reluctance to go to war frustrates some Americans. I believe their relative pacifism is because Europeans know the reality of war, while most Americans do not. …. It's easier to feel detached when a war is something you watch on the nightly news, rather than something that killed your grandfather or destroyed your hometown.

God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don't run after them.

God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don't run after them.

One should, perform karma with nonchalance without expecting the benefits because sooner or later one shall definitely gets the fruits.

Buông b? th?c ?n hay tài s?n khá dá»… dàng nhÆ°ng buông b? ti?ng t?m l?i khó hÆ¡n. Th?m chí má»™t ng??i thi?n ??nh ? má»™t nÆ¡i v?ng v? cÅ©ng hi v?ng r?ng má»™t ng??i ch?n c?u l? loi nào Ä'ó s? tìm ra ông ta và k? cho dân làng bi?t.

He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn't ordered.

Don't be afraid to burn a bridge you never want to cross again.

Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.

There's a lot of not caring that goes under the name of minding your own business.

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is in Minerva's tower...I live still a collegiate student...and lead a monastic life, ipse mihi theatrum [sufficient entertainment to myself], sequestered from those tumults and troubles of the world...aulae vanitatem, fori ambitionem, ridere mecum soleo [I laugh to myself at the vanities of the court, the intrigues of public life], I laugh at all.

To become indignant at [people's] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path.

This should not upset you but liberate you. The book will teach you to stop taking personally their insinuating comments, shows of coldness, or moments of irritation. The more you grasp this, the easier it will be to react not with your emotions but rather with the desire to understand where their behavior might come from.

It is sometimes best to leave things alone. If there is something you want but cannot have, show contempt for it. The less interest you reveal, the more superior you seem.

Recuerda mantener distancia emocional y física. Esto te permitirá llorar y reír a voluntad, y proyectar autosuficiencia; y con tal desapego, podrás jugar con las emociones de la gente como si tocaras un piano.