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Detachment Quotes

Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it Picture Quote #1

Don’t expect anything from anybody, this is also a great freedom. Don’t expect things to be different or people to be in service to you or your own life or projections. Feel gradually that natural feeling of detachment. Don’t watch constantly with the eyes of relationship and past and so on. Stay faithful to your own discovery, leave the rest and life will take care of it Picture Quote #1

For most people, attaining the intellectual clarity and emotional detachment that investing requires is tough Picture Quote #1

To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment and thus true love Picture Quote #1

Both religions and musicals work best with energetic and committed believers. Cynicism or detachment would have destroyed the magic - something true of religion, too Picture Quote #1

If you want to be powerful in life you have to enjoy the process. You have to get pleasure out of making the thing that you’re making. There has to be that kind of purpose behind it. If your purpose is simply gaining power, if that becomes your end in life then you end up sort of destroying yourself because you lose the sense of detachment that’s very necessary Picture Quote #1

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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it Picture Quote #1

Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century’s surrogate for the aristocrat in matters ofculture, so Camp is the modern dandyism. Camp is the answer to the problem: how to be a dandy in the age of mass culture Picture Quote #1

In detachment lies the wisdom of uncertainty...in the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, which is the prison of past conditioning. And in our willingness to step into the unknown, the field of all possibilities, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe Picture Quote #1

Detachment, n. Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it Picture Quote #1

The law of karma is neither fatalistic nor punitive; nor is man a hapless, helpless victim in its bonds. God has blessed each one of us with reason, intellect and discrimination, as well as the sovereign free will. Even when our past karma inclines us toward evil, we can consciously tune our inclination towards detachment and ego-free action, thus lightening the karmic load Picture Quote #1

The warrior knows that he is free to choose his desires, and he makes these decisions with courage, detachment, and - sometimes - with just a touch of madness Picture Quote #1

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That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It’s the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached Picture Quote #1

The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me extraordinarily self-sufficient, but it had also bred a certain detachment, a sense that the world was a place to explore rather than truly inhabit. This manifested as a kind of shyness, even timidity Picture Quote #1

As an Anglo-Indian kid in Bolton, I was basically in a minority of one. That was a source of misery, but at the same time, one of the effects of receiving the message that you don’t belong to the club is that you watch the club with detachment. The fact that no one quite knew who I was was a major contributory factor in starting to write Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Virtue is the panacea for both body and mind. The virtuous person can be both healthy and happy. How is virtue to be cultivated? How can it express itself in daily practice? Through service to living beings, through seva. Virtue must flow through the triple channel of love, mercy and detachment, in order to feed the roots of seva Picture Quote #1

The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

The mark of a great writer: who sees his own time, but with a detachment that makes him communicable to other ages Picture Quote #1

We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. I will be a saint means I will despoil myself of all that is not God; I will strip my heart of all created things; I will live in poverty and detachment; I will renounce my will, my inclinations, my whims and fancies, and make myself a willing slave to the will of God Picture Quote #1

I am overcome by a feeling of complete detachment. I am a mere object to these people. I am barely human any more Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility Picture Quote #1

Woman’s soul is present and lives more intensely in all parts of the body, and it is inwardly affected by that which happens to the body; whereas, with men, the body has more pronoucedly the character of an instrument which serves them in their work and which is accompanied by a certain detachment Picture Quote #1

I’ve never been passionate about acting, and I find more and more that I work to live the life I want to live. There’s something about the detachment I have, the feeling of the lack of importance about what I do, that is healthy Picture Quote #1

When you are born without the ordinary feelings and emotions shared by most other human beings, life looks different to you. It seems at times like a movie you’re walking through, more a spectator than a participant. There is above all a lack of empathy with most of mankind, a sense of detachment. But with detachment comes perspective. The less you care, the more you know, and the more you know the less you care Picture Quote #1

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Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it (Detachment Quotes) Don’t expect anything from anybody, this is also a great freedom. Don’t expect things to be different or people to be in service to you or your own life or projections. Feel gradually that natural feeling of detachment. Don’t watch constantly with the eyes of relationship and past and so on. Stay faithful to your own discovery, leave the rest and life will take care of it. (Detachment Quotes) For most people, attaining the intellectual clarity and emotional detachment that investing requires is tough. (Detachment Quotes) To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment and thus true love. (Detachment Quotes) Both religions and musicals work best with energetic and committed believers. Cynicism or detachment would have destroyed the magic - something true of religion, too (Detachment Quotes) If you want to be powerful in life you have to enjoy the process. You have to get pleasure out of making the thing that you’re making. There has to be that kind of purpose behind it. If your purpose is simply gaining power, if that becomes your end in life then you end up sort of destroying yourself because you lose the sense of detachment that’s very necessary (Detachment Quotes) In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it. (Detachment Quotes) Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century’s surrogate for the aristocrat in matters ofculture, so Camp is the modern dandyism. Camp is the answer to the problem: how to be a dandy in the age of mass culture (Detachment Quotes) In detachment lies the wisdom of uncertainty...in the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, which is the prison of past conditioning. And in our willingness to step into the unknown, the field of all possibilities, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe. (Detachment Quotes) Detachment, n. Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it (Detachment Quotes) The law of karma is neither fatalistic nor punitive; nor is man a hapless, helpless victim in its bonds. God has blessed each one of us with reason, intellect and discrimination, as well as the sovereign free will. Even when our past karma inclines us toward evil, we can consciously tune our inclination towards detachment and ego-free action, thus lightening the karmic load (Detachment Quotes) The warrior knows that he is free to choose his desires, and he makes these decisions with courage, detachment, and - sometimes - with just a touch of madness. (Detachment Quotes) That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It’s the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached. (Detachment Quotes) The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me extraordinarily self-sufficient, but it had also bred a certain detachment, a sense that the world was a place to explore rather than truly inhabit. This manifested as a kind of shyness, even timidity. (Detachment Quotes) As an Anglo-Indian kid in Bolton, I was basically in a minority of one. That was a source of misery, but at the same time, one of the effects of receiving the message that you don’t belong to the club is that you watch the club with detachment. The fact that no one quite knew who I was was a major contributory factor in starting to write. (Detachment Quotes) 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. (Detachment Quotes) Virtue is the panacea for both body and mind. The virtuous person can be both healthy and happy. How is virtue to be cultivated? How can it express itself in daily practice? Through service to living beings, through seva. Virtue must flow through the triple channel of love, mercy and detachment, in order to feed the roots of seva. (Detachment Quotes) The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life. (Detachment Quotes) 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 (Detachment Quotes) The mark of a great writer: who sees his own time, but with a detachment that makes him communicable to other ages (Detachment Quotes) We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. I will be a saint means I will despoil myself of all that is not God; I will strip my heart of all created things; I will live in poverty and detachment; I will renounce my will, my inclinations, my whims and fancies, and make myself a willing slave to the will of God (Detachment Quotes) I am overcome by a feeling of complete detachment. I am a mere object to these people. I am barely human any more (Detachment Quotes) 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 (Detachment Quotes) 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 (Detachment Quotes) 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 (Detachment Quotes) 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 (Detachment Quotes) Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility (Detachment Quotes) Woman’s soul is present and lives more intensely in all parts of the body, and it is inwardly affected by that which happens to the body; whereas, with men, the body has more pronoucedly the character of an instrument which serves them in their work and which is accompanied by a certain detachment (Detachment Quotes) I’ve never been passionate about acting, and I find more and more that I work to live the life I want to live. There’s something about the detachment I have, the feeling of the lack of importance about what I do, that is healthy (Detachment Quotes) When you are born without the ordinary feelings and emotions shared by most other human beings, life looks different to you. It seems at times like a movie you’re walking through, more a spectator than a participant. There is above all a lack of empathy with most of mankind, a sense of detachment. But with detachment comes perspective. The less you care, the more you know, and the more you know the less you care (Detachment Quotes)

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