Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Detachment Quotes
BoredomCourageDetachmentEmotional ResponsePassion Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.
DetachmentFocusMediaMusicPrivacy No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.
DetachmentMathematicsNatureSpinoza S PhilosophyUniversal Truths I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.
DetachmentGentlemanSelf-Control A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
AuthorshipCreationDetachment Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.
DetachmentEmotionIdentity Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.
DetachmentFreedom Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
DetachmentPeaceSolitude Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.
DetachmentImmortalityInner PeaceSelf Mastery That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
DetachmentIdentityImpersonalitySelf-Loss I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president's wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.
