Detaching Myself Quotes

#1. I was just thinking about my own natural way of one-night stands: always wanting to be more attached to something. I'm not very good at detaching myself.

Sampha

#2. THE POWER OF detaching his mind at will.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#3. Gilligan argued that while men seek maturity by detaching themselves, women see themselves maturing as they attach.18

Timothy J. Keller

#4. It is not easy to tear any event out of the context of the universe in which it occurred without detaching from it some factor that influenced it.

Carroll Quigley

#5. We stopped talking for a long, long time. A long time. Nurses came and went attaching and detaching things. Hundreds of thousands of babies were born while we weren't talking. The continents continued to separate at the same page as fingernails growing.

Miriam Toews

#6. The events might have taken place twelve centuries back, but when I closed my eyes, I could visualize many things. It made me very emotional. Later, when I grew up, I became passionate about history and started detaching it from emotional point of view and became more aware of the facts.

Sudha Murty

#7. Meditation is a practice of detaching and then stopping ourselves from thinking; our thoughts are interruptions in the flow of awareness. Consciousness, in its highest aspect, is perfect and formless.

Frederick Lenz

#8. Once lively peonies now
wind-weary, and ragged
at the edges, hang their heavy
crowns; rain on their backs,
one final act, before
detaching from the stem
and falling down.

Kristen Henderson

#9. The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment's greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic.

Pankaj Mishra

#10. I've gotten very good at detaching whenever I have to go away for three months, which I realize is hard on friends and kind of selfish.

Ashley Greene

#11. Remind yourself of the value of detaching from work that's out of your hands and committing to new work that wants to be born.

Eric Maisel

#12. It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power) but of detaching the power of truth from the forms of hegemony, social, economic and cultural, within which it operates at the present time

Michel Foucault

#13. I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism.

Kerry Washington

#14. Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny.

Henry Parry Liddon

#15. The Master's warning that we should not practice anything except self-detaching immersion.

Eugen Herrigel

#16. We forget our health and comfort and notice a pinching shoe. Much of living well is detaching from our boring stories of pain and shifting focus

Derren Brown