Quotes about Detachment

We must free ourselves from the prison of everyday affairs and politics.

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.

For me, it's always more interesting to look at things when you don't really have a horse in the race, so to speak.

It had been an article of my creed. The human condition being what it was, let them fight, let them love, let them murder, I would not be involved. My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action—even an opinion is a kind of action.

God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don't run after them.

God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don't run after them.

Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.

God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don't run after them.

I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.

Hold loosely to the things of this life, so that if God requires them of you, it will be easy to let them go.

But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

None of it was important now. The wind blew it out of his head.