Quotes About Detachment

It was one of those moments when a great Don't Care wave hits you, and you float off on it, head back, looking at the sky.

It was one of those moments when a great Don't Care wave hits you, and you float off on it, head back, looking at the sky.

Aveva deciso di non parlare più, mai più. Ormai era l'unica forma di protezione che riuscisse a immaginare. Neanche una parola, da lui non avrebbero cavato più niente. Sarebbe diventato un blocco compatto di silenzio, una superficie liscia e scivolosa contro cui la sventura sarebbe rimbalzata senza trovare un accesso.

presto sarebbe volato via pure quello stupido febbraio e il vecchio Alex si sentiva profondamente infelice ma in modo distaccato, come se la sua vita appartenesse - sensazione fin troppo tipica e cruda ne convengo - a qualcun altro

Parte de la evolución es aprender a superar el apego, porque el espíritu busca Libertad.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

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.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.

I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)

We must free ourselves from the prison of everyday affairs and politics.

Politics for most people is distant from their everyday lives. They give little attention to it and they don't care about being politically well informed.10

All I've got against it is that it takes you so far from the clubhouse.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

This position of detachment is a primary condition of consciousness, and it is the essence of its functioning to intensify and differentiate this attitude still further.

It might be better if we travel alone today

Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.

I sounded angry, felt nothing.

People sometimes thought him heartless because he was more often interested in others than attached to them.

Yes, madam, I am finished. My star has fallen. I work and I try, yet know that all is but a farce.... I await the end of the tragedy and – strangely detached from everything – I do not feel any more an actor. I feel I am the last of spectators.

He that best understands the world, least likes it.

Treat gain and loss the same.' Don't be Intimidated. Don't make a Big Deal of anything - just accept things as they come to you.

Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom, and behold it (as it were) for the first time; in its right, authentic colors; without making comparisons.

I definitely have that bug; I'd really like to do some auteur, existential pieces, darker films, something that's really reflective of life. But I also love the genre of rom-coms, and I don't see myself completely detaching from that.

I wanted to be a monk at some time in my life, or a priest, so there was a kind of reflex quite early on not to be attached to anything that might be taken away.