Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old detachment quotes, detachment sayings, and detachment proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
This detachmentmust not be mere amputation; everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a higher level.Gabriel Marcel
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Detachment, sometimes it's necessary in order to restore your sanity. Your peace of mind.Anonymous
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Detachment is not giving up the things in this world, but accepting the fact and to be continuously aware that nothing is permanent.Aditya Ajmera
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Your heart must become a sea of love. Your mind must become a river of detachment.Sri Chinmoy
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Detached action is unselfish work.Bhagavad Gita
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Detachment is an art of enjoying something while always being open to the possibility of losing it someday.John B. Bejo
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Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to get a glimmer of what this means.Madeleine L'Engle
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Detachment is not about refusing to feel or not caring or turning away from those you love. Detachment is profoundly honest, grounded firmly in the truth of what is.Sharon Salzberg
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Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when you were alone.Michael Bassey Johnson
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Detachment does not mean non-involvement. You can be deeply involved but not entangled.Jaggi Vasudev
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To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment.Erich Fromm
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Our detachments move us toward freedom and death.Mason Cooley
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One has to remain detached in order to triumph over others.Rollo May
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There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.Simone Weil
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The detached observer's view is one window on the world.Kenneth L. Pike
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Detachment consists in refraining from letting our possessions possess us.Abdu'l-Bahá
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Only in the stillness of detachment can the soul yield up her secrets.Elsa Barker
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There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.Marya Mannes
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Detachment is the ultimate pleasure.Saraha
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Detachment is not that you should own nothing. But that nothing should own you.Ali ibni abi Talib
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Detachment is the beginning of mastery.Sri Aurobindo
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We live in a society where detachment is almost essential.Philip K. Dick
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True detachment isn't separation from life but the absolute freedom within your mind to explore living.Ron. W. Rathbun
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To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.Sam Snead
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He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.Meister Eckhart
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Detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That's how you are able to leave it.Mitch Albom
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Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.James Dickey
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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Just a little detachment from the ego is needed.Rajneesh
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Detachment is a plant of slow growth; if you pluck the tender plant to look for the pods, you will be disappointed.Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.William Osler
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Detachment means to not be owned by what we own.Mahatma Prabhu
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If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.Michael Bassey Johnson
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Compassion without detachment is attachment to the bodily platform.Radhanath Swami