Detaching Quotes

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

Timothy J. Keller

#2. 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

#3. Detaching does not mean we don't care. It means we learn to love, care, and be involved without going crazy.

Melody Beattie

#4. Usually, they have to attach a tentacle to someone else before detaching all the tentacles from their current object.

Gavin De Becker

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

Eugen Herrigel

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#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. 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

#12. 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

#13. Father Gomst will pray for your soul," I said. "And forgive me the sins I incur in detaching it from your body.

Mark Lawrence

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Pankaj Mishra

#20. I feel that Dennis Rodman has become a problem. He will be more of a problem than an asset. Of course, he can prove me wrong.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#21. The metaphysician reasons deductively out of his own subjectivity. The scientist reasons inductively from the facts of experience.

Jack London

#22. For the briefest of moments he looked like someone who'd been staggering through the Mojave Desert, half-dead from sun, and had seen a glimmer of water up ahead only to have it turn out to be a mirage.

Cassandra Clare

#23. The only things I'm competitive in are backgammon and poker.

Kate Hudson

#24. The idea of anyone contemplating our family and witnessing the affection that we all have for one another and seeing evil in it is deeply hurtful and sad; and also deeply bewildering.

Andrew Solomon

#25. That night, in the dark, dressed to kill, I lost my life - and became twenty forever.

Pat Henshaw

#26. Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.

John Ortberg

#27. Whenever you have to find about something, Plunge rightin!

Paulo Coelho

#28. You see, time is an ocean, not a garden hose. Space is a puff of smoke, a wisp of cloud.

David Wong

#29. I'm now requesting you refrain from calling me this early in the morning, before I've had a chance to steel my defenses against hearing you utter the word 'lizard.'"

-- spoken by Dr. Jeri Asheer... to Chris Dixon.

Richard Finney

#30. I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.

Ozwald Boateng

#31. Law and terrors do but harden All the while they work alone; But a sense of blood-bought pardon Will dissolve a heart of stone.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#32. The one thing I don't consume during 'Today' - which surprises many people - is coffee. I find that a lot of water helps wake me up, without the buzz. I love coffee, but usually reserve a double espresso as an afternoon pick-me-up before settling in to do the weekend 'Nightly News.'

Lester Holt