Detachment Quotes

Detachment Quote of the day

For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress… I think that you can actually give people access to their own soul.

Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.

A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.

To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

It may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is 'useful;' but only through participation is it possible to gain the knowledge that is helpful.

Detachment is the beginning of mastery.

The true contemplative is one who has discovered the art of finding leisure even in the midst of his work, by working with such a spirit of detachment and recollection that even his work is a prayer

This detachment (poverty, chastity, etc.) must not be mere amputation; everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a higher level.

Your heart must become a sea of love. Your mind must become a river of detachment.

Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.

How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?

detachment, n. Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it.

Let us be humble and keep ourselves down: - Obedience! Humility! Detachment!

The essence of the Way is detachment.

...for me there is too little of life to spend most of it forcing myself into detachment from it.

Detachment is the ultimate pleasure.

Wandering, (is) considered as a state of detachment form every given point in space.

Detachment is not about refusing to feel or not caring or turning away from those you love. Detachment is profoundly honest, grounded firmly in the truth of what is.

Wisdom means that it gives you detachment, detachment from all that is selfishness, self-centredness, self-obsession, ego - all connected with self.

Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.

Attachment to the Divine leads to detachment from the mind. This leads to the realization that the nature of the Seer and the Divine are the same.

The alphabet and print technology fostered and encouraged a fragmenting process, a process of specialism and detachment. Electric technology fosters and encourages unification and involvement.

They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous.

The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment.

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.

Detachment does not mean non-involvement. You can be deeply involved but not entangled.

Detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That’s how you are able to leave it.

I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.

I've been in wars and in riots and hung out of many helicopters in the early days. And there's a detachment that happens when you look through the camera. You're looking for the shot.

Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself.

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

[D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95)

Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

Joy only can be achieved through complete detachment, the detachment which is egoless and superegoless.

Surrendering means cleansing yourself completely, getting completely detached. Detachment is the only way you can rise.

Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.

My approach is neither of attachment nor of detachment, but of simple understanding.

When in still air and still in summertime A leaf has had enough of this, it seems To make up its mind to go; fine as a sage Its drifting in detachment down the road.