Quotes About Detachment

I let people make remarks about me, but it doesn't touch me, all those remarks.

For most people, attaining the intellectual clarity and emotional detachment that investing requires is tough.

I didn't care about the Pride championship or the Pride tournament.

No, seriously, I really don't have much ill-will toward anyone these days; I just ignore the people that I dislike.

I don't drink anymore, I don't go up the town and I'm not interested in events and parties.

Do not carry with you your mistakes. Do not carry your cares. Travel on alone. Like an elephant in the forest.

One of the pleasures of travel is to dive into places where others are compelled to live and come out unscathed, full of the malicious pleasure of abandoning them to their fate.

In order to travel far you have to be detached.

To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence.

That's the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world's somewheres, into our own nowhere.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveler, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest of desire and the brushwood of longing, be rid of the forest, bhikkhus.

But I may be one who does not care Ever to have tree bloom or bear.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Four Rules For Life Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Don't be attached to the results.

Rather than continuing to seek the truth, simply let go of your views.

Anything a person chases in life runs away.

Anything a person chases in life runs away.

What is there to think about? What Mrs. Watson and her friend do and don't do with each other doesn't affect you to any extent.

It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.

I learned a long time ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty and besides, the pig likes it.

Pain was simply pain, pleasure was simply pleasure; for him they were no longer part of the cycle of suffering.

The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes.