Quotes About Detachment

To resist this downward pull that groups inevitably exert on us, we must conduct a kind of experiment in human nature with a simple goal in mind—to develop the ability to detach ourselves from the group and create some mental space for true independent thinking.

Most important of all, do not take pity. Do not enmesh yourself in trying to help. The infector will remain unchanged, but you will be unhinged.

The key in life is to always be willing to walk away.

No matter how hard people try to pull you in, never let your interest in their affairs and petty squabbles go beyond the surface.

Outwardly, I hope, I wear my usual mask of detachment, even irony, for there has never been a situation,however dire, even this one, that did not strike me as containing at least some element of the human comedy.

Didn't Cause it, can't Cure it, can't Control it.

Knowing when to detach yourself from an unhealthy situation can be healthy, but the kind of detachment that is negative is called "premature closure." This occurs when you detach yourself from a situation at the first sign of trouble. You leave even before you see whether or not the problem can be worked out. When this happens you never learn conflict resolution, you only learn how to leave.

Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire.

But the biggest clue seemed to be their expressions. They were hard to explain. Good-natured, friendly, easygoing – and uninvolved. They were like spectators. You had the feeling they had just wandered in there themselves and somebody had handed them a wrench. There was no identification with the job.

Now I have something to tell you, her brother said. Every time I've had to take part in anything with other people, something of genuine social concern, I've been like a man who steps outside the theater before the final act for a breath of fresh air, sees the great dark void with all those stars, and walks away, abandoning hat, coat and play.

Superioritatea unui om care s-a eliberat de dorin?a de a tr?i este foarte mare.

The further I get from the things that I care about, the less I care about how much further away I get.

We just began to separate from the crowd.

Pride is cold company

Now that the crisis had come she found herself able to confront it coolly - nay, more, to take a curious interest in it under all her secret fear and shame, as if some part of her had detached itself from the rest and was interestingly absorbing impressions and analyzing motives and describing settings.

I ain't kin to nobody in this world. I don't want to be. I won't be.

Norwegian way of keeping all our earthly affairs from achieving too much importance.

So little gives me joy now that I'm afraid I'll get rid of every single thing I've ever owned and end up with nothing. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Feeling empty only makes me want to be emptier.

Y en tanto un hombre cabalgue sobre su CABALLO DE JUGUETE tranquila y apaciblemente por el camino real sin obligarnos ni a usted ni a mí a montar tras él,—dígame, señor, ¿qué nos importa tal cosa a ninguno de los dos?

The mothers in my neighborhood were screamers and yellers, silent fuming carpet-raking speed cleaners or detached unkempt anticleaners, all-day-luncheon martini drinkers, chain smokers prostrate on the couch with bookcases filled with accounts of JFK and Camelot.

To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.

If you love something, let it go. If it does not come back it was not yours to began with.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.