Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Detachment Quotes
AttachmentDetachmentHappinessSorrow He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
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.
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.
ConfidenceDetachmentPerformanceRelaxation I reminded myself that the best way to win was to not need to win. The best performances are accomplished when you are relaxed and free of doubt.
DetachmentImmortalityInner PeaceSelf Mastery That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
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.
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.
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.
