Quotes about Detachment
Enjoy everything that happens in your life, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any person, place, or thing.
— Wayne Dyer
The spiritual life is always about letting go. It is never about holding on.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.
— Anonymous
Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
— Viktor E. Frankl
It is only through death to the world that we can be freed from its spirit.
— Andrew Murray
For this is spiritual sobriety, when we use this world so sparingly and temperately that we are not entangled with its allurements.
— John Calvin
Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke.
— Marianne Williamson
Don't depend on anyone too much. Even your shadow leaves when it's dark.
— Anonymous
Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.
— Corrie Ten Boom
Learn to hold loosely all that is not eternal.
— Maude Royden
If you're as detached as that, why does the obsolete institution of marriage survive with you? Oh, it still has its uses. One couldn't be divorced without it.
— Edith Wharton