Quotes about Detachment

It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.

No matter what happens on God's green earth, Father acts like it's a movie he's already seen and we're just dumb for not knowing how it comes out.

There may be times when you just have to love people from a distance.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Some things don't need to be cut back. They need to be cut off.

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

Every person needs to take one day away.  A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.  Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence.  Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.  Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.

Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.

Detachment involves "present moment living"—living in the here and now. We allow life to happen instead of forcing and trying to control it. We relinquish regrets over the past and fears about the future. We make the most of each day.

Detachment is based on the premises that each person is responsible for himself, that we can't solve problems that aren't ours to solve, and that worrying doesn't help.

A good rule of thumb is: You need to detach most when it seems the least likely or possible thing to do. I

Generosity is the value we practice. Nonattachment is a gift.