Detachment famous quotes

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

#Attachment #People #Detachment

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

#Detachment #Theory

The essence of the Way is detachment.
-- Bodhidharma

#Essence #Way #Detachment

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

#Care #I Care #Detachment

Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.
-- Edward St Aubyn

#People #Way #Detachment

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

#Self #Soul #Detachment

She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.
-- Janet Fitch

#Numbness #Emptiness #Detachment

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.
-- John Desmond Bernal

#Important #Development #Detachment

Both religions and musicals work best with energetic and committed believers. Cynicism or detachment would have destroyed the magic - something true of religion, too.
-- Lisa Randall

#Magic #Cynicism #Detachment

...for me there is too little of life to spend most of it forcing myself into detachment from it.
-- M. F. K. Fisher

#Littles #Detachment

The property of the estate owners (pomeshchiks) doesn't belong to any particular detachment, but to the people as a whole. Let the people take what they want.
-- Maria Nikiforova

#People #Want #Detachment

There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.
-- Marya Mannes

#Solitude #Important #Detachment

The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God.
-- Radhanath Swami

#Yoga #Perfection #Detachment

Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
-- Ram Dass

#Dying #Moments #Detachment

Detachment is the ultimate pleasure.
-- Saraha

#Detachment #Pleasure #Ultimate

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

#Distance #Feelings #Detachment

Because I frequently encountered obstacles such as old, entrenched ideas, ongoing power struggles, or the lack of staff and money, I also learned to develop patience and detachment.
-- Corinne McLaughlin

#Struggle #Obstacles #Detachment