Quotes about Detachment
Prosperity in the form of wealth works exactly the same as everything else. You will see it coming into your life when you are unattached to needing it.
— Wayne Dyer
A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.
— Anonymous
Is detachment the answer to freedom? No, because detachment is negative - it is to be without. The answer must be positive - I must replace what I have with something better.
— Mother Angelica
There are times when we have had enough even of our Friends.
— Henry David Thoreau
Be good and you will be lonely.
— Mark Twain
Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.
— John of the Cross
If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were
— Anonymous
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.
— John of the Cross
She's a loner, she doesn't care about being around people. So neither failure nor success concerns her.
— Olga Tokarczuk
Never become attached to anything that continues to hurt God. For you to be free of it, God must be allowed to hurt whatever it may be.
— Oswald Chambers
Our Lord Himself, not being detached from things externally. Our Lord was amazingly in and out among ordinary things; His detachment was on the inside towards God. External detachment is often an indication of a secret vital attachment to the things we keep away from externally.
— Oswald Chambers