Quotes about Detachment

You did not have to like it because you understood it. He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care

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

spiritual exercises whereby to conquer oneself, and order one's life, without being influenced in one's decision by any inordinate affection.

Familiarity breeds indifference.

Power and wealth increase in direct proportion to a man's distance from the material objects from which wealth and power are ultimately derived.

Mortification has to be carried to the pitch of non-attachment or (in the phrase of St. Fran$ois de Sales) 'holy indifference'; otherwise it merely transfers self-will from one channel to another, not merely without decrease in the total volume of that self-will, but sometimes with an actual increase.

After an outburst, she would settle down and try to love him as reasonably as she could, making the best of his kindness, his rather detached and separate passion, his occasional and laborious essays at emotional intimacy, and finally his intelligence - that quick, comprehensive, ubiquitous intelligence that could understand everything, including emotions it could not feel and the instincts it took care not to be moved by.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.

My own rule is to let everything alone.

You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

And I take with joy whatever now besets me, pain or fear, and with a strong will I sever all the ties which bind me here.

The happiest people I know are the ones who have learned how to hold everything loosely and have given the worrisome, stress-filled, fearful details of their lives into God's keeping.