Quotes About Detachment

Forget: Refuse to dwell; let go and loosen one's hold, particularly on memory. To forget is an active - not passive - endeavor.

Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness.

Don't cling to anything and don't reject anything.

If someone decides to go ahead with a project that I had rejected earlier, and it works out well for him or her, there is no point in feeling bad.

I do a project and then I forget about it because the release of whatever work you have done is not in your hand.

I am not holding any grudges against anyone. I've forgotten things that Rakhi Sawant has said or done to me.

Honestly, I try to stay away from the famous chicks and L.A. girls in general.

Honestly, I could care less about business development.

I honestly really don't get aggravated at all. I just go with the flow. Whatever happens, happens.

For me, it's always more interesting to look at things when you don't really have a horse in the race, so to speak.

I don't get hung up about anything really.

do not turn anything Into something longed for, For then it's dreadful to lose.

the tradition discourages attachments to any particular ideas of enlightenment as well as to pointless philosophical or metaphysical speculation.

In what resides the most characteristic Virtue of humanity? In good works? Possibly. In the creation of beautiful objects? Perhaps. But some would look in a different direction, and find it in detachment. To all such David Hume must be a great saint in the calendar; for no mortal being was ever more completely divested of the trammels of the personal and the particular, none ever practiced with more consummated success the divine art of impartiality

I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don't even ripple.

I'm like that, nothing sticks.

He was born to be lonely, that's what he knew for certain.

And she'd feel sorry for the kids, but not in a way that made her want to help, just in a way that made her not want to look at them anymore.

Flotaré un rato, unas minivacaciones alejada de mi cerebro de arpía.

Worldly friends are deceptive time-wasters, Life like a flash of lightning in the sky, And material things like bubbles on a stream; Do not cling to them, Jampal Drak.

As the late afternoon sun shone in Shaw's face and a soft flower-scented wind cooled him, his unhappiness turned to a detachment that was not at all unpleasant. He was utterly alone in the world. This knowledge thrilled him.

You only lose what you cling to.

If you live in a place for long you cease to read about it.

He had always despised people who thought about the past. To live was to leave behind; to be as free as a shipwrecked man who has lost everything.