Quotes About Detachment

Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

To soar, we must leave anything that weighs us down...

Anyone who constantly makes you unhappy belongs in someone else's world, not yours.

Tell me things I won't mind forgetting, she said. 'Make it useless stuff or skip it.

At a certain point, it would seem, you have to stop caring, and stop trying to protect what someone else is set to destroy.

There are people like that, people who don't beat themselves up, don't take every little injustice personally. Those people, same callous fuckers that walk past a legless guy without a pause, those are the ones who win.

And all that talk about the breakup being good for us- who am I trying to fool? I'm cut loose, untethered, not belonging to anything or anybody.

I had thus learned to push down my feelings, to force myself to not care, to do nothing and let things happen, come what may.

To escape him she had run away to the end of the world. To be free of him she had run away to places where he never went.

I don't rave against politics. I ignore it.

Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

How lucky Ménalque is, I thought, owning nothing! It is because I want to save things that I suffer. What does it all really matter?

And if it is sufficient to imagine one loves, in order to love, so it is sufficient to say to oneself that when one loves one imagines one loves, in order to love a little less and even in order to detach oneself a little from one's love, or at any rate to detach some of the crystals from one's love.

He thought back but Bianca, her foot heavy on the accelerator, thought away . From Rose, their mother, their entire past, books and papers and stories and sorrows: let it sink into the ocean. She had her wallet and her sleeping bag and her running shoes and her van; and she drove as if this were the point from which the rest of her life might begin.

The challenge of life is to appreciate everything and attach yourself to nothing.

It is only through death to the world that we can be freed from its spirit.

We want to wait on Him and put away our experiences, however blessed they have been; our concept of truth, however sound and scriptural we think it is; our plans, however needful and suitable they appear.

If something's going to happen for you, it will, you can't make it happen. And it never does happen until you're past the point where you care whether it happens or not. I guess it's for your own good that it always happens that way, because after you stop wanting things is where having them won't make you go crazy.

If something's going to happen for you, it will, you can't make it happen. And it never does happen until you're past the point where you care whether it happens or not.

Why couldn't it belong to him anymore? Why couldn't he belong to it? Because he gave it up. He held on to himself, and he threw the other things away.

she'd rather be alone than cling to people she didn't care about.

Like some dogs, you don't want to catch his eye.

ADIAPHORY  (ADIA'PHORY)   n.s.[Gr.]Neutrality; indifference.

With my mom, when someone was gone, they were gone. She didn't waste another minute thinking about them, and neither should you.