Quotes About Detachment

Maybe he wasn't the balloon who'd been cut loose, but the one who'd untied himself from the rail.

Entbehren sollst du - sollst entbehren. Thou shalt forego, shalt do without.

I'm not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don't. Move on and move out.

Get a grip, get a life, and get over it.

If you expect miracles in your life, then release any attachment to the outcome.

Household life is crowded and dusty; life gone forth is wide open... Suppose I shave off my hair and beard, put on the ochre robe, and go forth from the home life into homelessness.

I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, 'It's a wrap,' it's gone completely. I'm a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.

I don't know what's the matter with me, why I'm so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.

Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't always do that, but it serves you well to keep it in mind.

I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old Your days are gone; it is part of life.

Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.

The spiritual life is always about letting go. It is never about holding on.

The dead carry with them to the grave in their clutched hands only that which they have given away.

I have a kind of boring personal life, to the paparazzi anyway, and I don't hang with the cool crowd.

Accept life on life's terms and just let things go.

I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.

Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.

Muichi Motsu: "Hold nothing": If you meet Buddha, kill Buddha. If you meet the patriarchs, kill the patriarchs. Free of all, bound by nothing, you live your life simply as it is

You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.

We do not aspire to communal life but to a life apart.

Don't worry about your life cause if you hold it too close you lose it.