Quotes about Detachment

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If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them. — Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign
You need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need to be free and detached from things an — Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps
Take any emotion—love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I’m going through, fear and pain from a deadly illn — Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
Subhuti, someone might fill innumerable worlds with the seven treasures and give all away in gifts of alms, but if any g — Gautama Buddha, Diamond Sutra
People often associate complexity with deeper meaning, when often after precious time has been lost, it is realized that — Gary Hopkins
Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when you we — Michael Bassey Johnson
Also the natural sexual functions of establishing an intimate human contact frequently assume greater proportions. This — Karen Horney, Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization
Like everything else, we know the futility of money only when we have more than enough of it. — R. N. Prasher
As long as we lean on anything outside ourselves for support, we are going to be insecure. Most of us try to find suppor — Eknath Easwaran, The End of Sorrow
Things can be added, but that doesn't mean that anything is missing. — Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
We must not bind our hearts to the things of the world, no matter how beautiful they are or how much pleasure they give — Aleksandra Layland, Bind Not the Heart: A Windflower Saga Novella
Like petals what's beautiful is often delicate. Take care of the ones you love by not holding them too tightly — Nicola An, The Universe at Heartbeat
All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about eve — David Baldacci, The Christmas Train
I do not think the long-range bullets I fire provide the mark of a man; I am only dimly aware that they are dehumanising — Jake Wood, Among You: The Extraordinary True Story of a Soldier Broken By War
When there is nothing to catchAnd nothing is catching you,You are free;From all your separations! — Sayantan Sen, Oneness - A collection of poetry
I never said it was easy to find your place in this world, but I’m coming to the conclusion that if you seek to please o — Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps
It sounds to me, dear, as if your satirist is a bit like a monk. They both take a rather dim view of the world, and both — Tony Hendra, Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
You can continue to cry over the same pain & complain about the same situations or you can expand your mind and you can — Nikki Rowe
The path towards living in a spiritual manner begins by eliminating inculcated cultural biases, destroying personal illu — Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Detachment is being apathetic or aloof to other people, while un-attachment is acknowledging and honoring other people, — Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace