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Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past. — Brad Meltzer

Charlotte views her younger selves with a certain detachment. They are herself, but other incarnations, innocents going about half-forgotten business. — Penelope Lively

My approach is neither of attachment nor of detachment, but of simple understanding. — Rajneesh

For me there is too little of life to spend most of it forcing myself into detachment from it. — Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher

Let us be humble and keep ourselves down: - Obedience! Humility! Detachment! — Philip Neri

Your heart must become a sea of love.
Your mind must become a river of detachment. — Sri Chinmoy

Never invest so much in anyone romantically that you lose your head. The Buddha of casual sex, I remain detached at all costs. — Edward Vilga

indifference but detachment — Anonymous

Surrendering means cleansing yourself completely, getting completely detached. Detachment is the only way you can rise. — Nirmala Srivastava

Theory in any branch of science entails a risk of detachment from reality — Quammen, David

Real hard work and satisfaction will bring a detachment from time and worries. Do what you love and life will flow downstream. — Phil Wohl

[D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95) — Stephen Levine

Expressing intense feelings usually portends better results than emotional detachment does. — Mark Murphy

Unrealistic expectations often lead to disappointment, while simple unbiased attention and detachment to outcome often lead to pleasant surprises. — Gary Hopkins

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment. — May Sarton

He was hurting, and I hurt with him. We had never been able to maintain any level of detachment from each other's suffering, and we
didn't now. — R.K. Lilley

Only in the stillness of detachment can the soul yield up her secrets. — Elsa Barker

And I took a seat in the grandstand of philosophical detachment to fall asleep observing the cannibals do their death dance. — Eugene O'Neill

Asperger's syndrome is associated with organization, focus, innovative thinking, and rational detachment. — Graeme Simsion

I am overcome by a feeling of complete detachment. I am a mere object to these people. I am barely human any more. — Tabitha Suzuma

Somehow I know that eventually we'll fall back into step, so the pain is the low hum of detachment rather than the screaming stab of the end. — Cat Patrick

When there is nothing to catch
And nothing is catching you,
You are free;

From all your separations! — Sayantan Sen

A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage. — Edward Abbey

Detachment is a flaw, not a virtue-don't you realize that? — Steven Erikson

Let love take hold of you and change you. At first through its presence then through its absence. — Elif Shafak

He watched and recorded their subversive activites with love, amusement, and detachment. — Kurt Vonnegut

And Judith, the young girl dreaming, not living, in her complete detachment and imperviousness to actuality almost like physical deafness. — William Faulkner

[ ... ]one should act as if the things he cherished the most were already lost or broken. — H.J. Brues

We coexisted in a state of mutual detachment. — Patrick McGrath

When you notice your world exactly as it is - free from judgment and with detachment from anticipated outcomes - that is Zen. — Dan Tricarico

I have learned that there's no way to open yourself to the experience of God while retaining your cool, your sense of ironic detachment. — Ken Wilson

Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment. — Allen Tate

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment. — Susan Sontag

Some jobs required a certain level of detachment; a turning off of emotions in order to do the things that needed to be done. — Julie James

A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success. — Mahatma Gandhi

The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers. — Gustave Flaubert

To be honest, I'm trying to maintain a Buddhist detachment about the whole thing to stop it taking ten years off my life. — Mark Haddon

I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound. — Randa Haines

The yoga of selfless giving is easy for anyone to practice. The key is detachment. The spirit is unattachment to results. — Frederick Lenz

I should not mistake her calm probing for the absence of anger. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

One detects creative power by its capacity to conquer one's detachment. — Marianne Moore

Violet, surveying him with a cruel detachment, had never felt less married. — Louis Auchincloss

Detachment does not mean non-involvement. You can be deeply involved but not entangled. — Jaggi Vasudev

The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it. — Ernest Hemingway,

Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Mind can be your best friend or worst enemy. — Kabira

Detachment does not mean to neglect what Krishna gives you. Detachment means to do the needful as an offering to Krishna. — Radhanath Swami

Humor is detachment, and detachment sets you free. — Marty Rubin

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have. — John Irving

Attachment to the Divine leads to detachment from the mind. This leads to the realization that the nature of the Seer and the Divine are the same. — A. G. Mohan

Joy only can be achieved through complete detachment, the detachment which is egoless and superegoless. — Nirmala Srivastava

The possessions themselves were not the problem, it was my relationship with possessing. — Chris Matakas

Narcissism, detachment, schizoid personality, sociopath - these things run rampant in the human race in varying degrees. — C.C. Hunter

The succession multiplied the harm. Each passed on his conception of the papacy unchanged. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Restrict yourself to choice and refusal; and exercise them carefully, with discipline and detachment. — Epictetus

DeWitt: Loneliness leads to nothing good, only detachment. And sometimes the people who most need to reach out are the people least capable of it. — Jane Espenson

Nothing is better for "spiritual advancement" & the detachment of the flesh than a close reading of the "Erotic Dictionary. — Remy De Gourmont

One has to remain detached in order to triumph over others — Rollo May

A man of reason? A disinterested philosopher? I'd rather be a puppy wagging its tail. — Marty Rubin

The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings. — Victor Garber

She examined with curious detachment - so rare for her to feel anything these days - and discovered that what she felt was unease. — Stephen Lloyd Jones

They should tell you when you're born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel. — Gabrielle Zevin

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

Wandering, (is) considered as a state of detachment form every given point in space ... — Georg Simmel

The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God. — Radhanath Swami

Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself. — Albert Ellis

There is music playing somewhere but I can't hear it. — Bret Easton Ellis

We co-existed in peaceful detachment — Tsitsi Dangarembga

It was my letting go that gave me a better hold. — Chris Matakas

There's a Legion that never was 'listed, That carries no colours or crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, Is breaking the road for the rest. — Rudyard Kipling

Attachment is the source of pain, but detachment is the source of joy. — Debasish Mridha

The happy result of detachment is inner freedom, freedom from worry about bodily comfort, honor, and wealth. Considering — Teresa Of Avila

Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility. — William Osler

I declared her brain frozen and assumed command of the local Warden detachment, which was handy, since it consisted of only me anyway. — Jim Butcher

This kind of business (murder) required detachment. The trick was to do it almost casually, as you might flick on the radio, or swat a mosquito. — Clive Barker

If you simply get detach from yourself, it gets easier for you to see, how you perceive life. — Roshan Sharma

True understanding is unattainable without both love and detachment, — Owen Barfield

...detachment from anger is one part of wisdom. — Steven Saylor

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment. — Meister Eckhart

Most evangelicals have bought into the need for apparent indifference when writing about massively important things. — John Piper

Things can be added, but that doesn't mean that anything is missing. — Chris Matakas

If I don't see the reason of someone being my friend, chances are, we are just floating and I need a ship to set sail. — Michael Bassey Johnson

If you do not acquire good training in detachment, you may attach to all the wrong things. — Richard Rohr

Our detachments move us toward freedom and death. — Mason Cooley

I'm already in the late stages of advanced detachment where my mother is concerned. With a little practice I could feel that way about everyone. — Susan Juby

The Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not. — Idries Shah

Compassion without detachment is attachment to the bodily platform. — Radhanath Swami

To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love. — Sharon Salzberg

The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter. — Sigmund Freud

Remain in the world, act in the world, do whatsoever is needful, and yet remain transcendental, aloof, detached, a lotus flower in the pond. — Osho

There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important. — Marya Mannes

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached. — Simone Weil

I still don't know if this is a good quality or a bad one, to be able to be in the moment and then step out of it. — David Levithan

Joy is the outcome of detachment from self and lives in freedom of spirit. — Anonymous

Just a little detachment from the ego is needed. — Rajneesh

A Sufi is one who is not bound by anything nor does he bind anything — Idries Shah

The essence of the Way is detachment. — Bodhidharma

We are predators, Whose all seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment. — Anne Rice

Lauren truly believed she's to blame for his detachment and refusal to attach to her. But — Nako

Detachment doesn't mean avoiding things and going to Himalayas. It means doing what is necessary without drowning in it. — Sumit Singh