Quotes About Unattached

#1. The cautious faith that never saws off a limb on which it is sitting, never learns that unattached limbs may find strange unaccountable ways of not falling.

Dallas Willard

#2. Clinginess seriously clashes with my current desire to be unattached.

Jessica N. Watkins

#3. For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.

Rachel Sklar

#4. In Buddhism, they say attachment to anything only leads to suffering. So when we laugh, it's our way of saying, 'I'm unattached to that.' You're tickled by it, it makes your lobes do something on their own. So humor is very important to me. I always take that to the stage first.

Jason Mraz

#5. When you don't have any money, any things, any house - if you are unattached, what is the difficulty in it? But when you have everything and you remain unattached - a beggar in the palace - then something very deep has been attained.

Rajneesh

#6. To be unattached in every phase of one's life is indeed full enlightened bliss of the Self (Purna samadhi)!

Dada Bhagwan

#7. Happiness and sorrow are two sides of the same coin called life. Whatever befalls you, walk on unattached.

Sanchita Pandey

#8. Kathel did not back down at all. "Well, Keirah told me she was suddenly unattached, if you know what I mean. And I figured, what the hell, why not have a go at her myself," Kathel said enthusiastically.

Madison Thorne Grey

#9. Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state ... Time, we say, is Lethe; but change of air is a similar draught, and, if it works less thoroughly, does so more quickly.

Thomas Mann

#10. My parents professed to believe in God, but I rarely heard his name mentioned unattached to 'damn' or 'sakes' or 'willing.

Edith Konecky

#11. Because he wanted nothing from her; this was a generous, expansive feeling, unattached to the possibility of gratification; it was the simple happiness that came from knowing that one particular person was alive in the world

Jo Baker

#12. She's a gypsy girl living in a materialistic world,
Unattached to most things but in love with life itself.

Nikki Rowe

#13. He whose inflowing thoughts are dried up, who is unattached to food, whose dwelling place is an empty and imageless release - the way of such a person is hard to follow, like the path of birds through the sky.

Gautama Buddha

#14. I am unattached; My heart is very quiet.

Sylvia Plath

#15. Breathing is a lot like creativity. Like an inhale, you receive an inspiration, you let it run through the unique magnificence of who you are, and then you release it into the world, letting it go, unattached to the way it needs to look.

Jill Badonsky

#16. For the first time in my life I'm really happy to be unattached because I realise there is so much responsibility to having a partner.

Amanda Seyfried

#17. I should have known better than to open myself to such inevitable pain. When did I forget to stay aloof and unattached? When did I let my armor soften, leaving me vulnerable? This is what I get for playing human. The

Jessica Khoury

#18. She thought she mattered little to him, but in this she was mistaken, as the musician was quite smitten, and not nearly so unattached to her as she supposed, but pride, and also fear, and also style, kept him from asking more of her than she offered up.

Mohsin Hamid

#19. Prosperity in the form of wealth works exactly the same as everything else. You will see it coming into your life when you are unattached to needing it.

Wayne Dyer

#20. If we were really unattached, we should escape all this pain of vain expectation, and could cheerfully do good work in the world. Never will unhappiness or misery come through work done without attachment. The world will go on with its happiness and misery through eternity.

Swami Vivekananda

#21. If you're willing to travel, or just super-desperate, the best place in the world to meet unattached men is on the Alaska pipeline. I'm told that the trek through the frozen tundra is well worth the effect for any woman who wants to know what it feels like to be Victoria Principal.

Linda Sunshine

#22. Not complete inaction, which is an error, a confusion, a self-delusion, an impossibility, but action full and
free done without subjection to sense and passion, desireless and unattached works, are the first secret of perfection.

Sri Aurobindo

#23. mainly that it was important to treat oneself as a kind of stranger, to remain unattached and unprejudiced in your own case.

Zadie Smith

#24. Perhaps the unattached, the unwanted, the unloved, could grow to give love as lushly as anyone else.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#25. Also, always encourage 'being good' over 'doing good.' Acts of goodness are the difficulty for us and should, of course, be avoided. 'Being good' is far less problematic, largely because it lacks definition and can be solely a state of mind completely unattached to reality.

Geoffrey Wood

#26. Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.

Gautama Buddha

#27. I'm single, so
"
"No, you're not." He had stepped closer, and his voice dropped to a low growl. "Whatever this is ... you are not single. You're not unattached as far as I'm concerned.

Elizabeth Hunter

#28. Parker: When can you start? Rainie: I can start tomorrow if you'd like. My schedule is pretty much open. All I have to keep me at home is Thomas. Parker: Ah. It figures that there'd be a man in the picture. You're too lovely to be unattached. Rainie: Thomas is a cat.

Catherine Anderson

#29. Don't hesitate to seek external help or advice where need be. Sometimes, it takes an external, emotionally unattached individual to detect your business flaws and render unbiased advice.

Richard Branson

#30. They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.

James A. Michener

#31. Does no good to nail an unattached branch to the vine; there is no life-giving connection. But those branches that are an integral part of the vine share in the life of the vine.

Jerry Bridges

#32. The holy man is beyond time, he does not depend on any view nor subscribe to any sect; all current theories he understands, but he remains unattached to any of them.

Gautama Buddha

#33. The mind must become the servant of the intellect, not the slave of the senses. It must discriminate and detach itself from the body. Like the ripe tamarind fruit, which, becomes loose inside the shell, it must be unattached to this shell, this casement called body.

Sathya Sai Baba

#34. In Sanskrit, "independent woman" is a synonym for a harlot. Hence the woman who is unattached to a man is not only a universal feminine type but a sacral type in antiquity.

Erich Neumann

#35. To be a real man is to be unattached - not from responsibility or justice - but from those dependencies that inhibit responsibility and justice.

Tarek Saab

#36. You want to be single?
I said yes. And then I told her that I thought single was a stupid term. It made it sound like you were unattached to anyone, unconnected to anything. I preferred the term singular. As in individual.

David Levithan

#37. The beginningless Consciousness is unborn, whole and, residing forever in its natural home of the Heart-cave, is without form, world or impurity. It is beyond comparison and completely unattached. It cannot be comprehended by the mind nor can it be seen or felt by the senses.

Ramana Maharshi

#38. I am totally unattached to material items.

Zac Posen

#39. Allow yourself to experience what it is to learn step by step the freedom that comes from being unattached to the outcome, but operating from an empowered heart.

Gary Zukav

#40. While she was in transit, being unattached was exhilarating, but the moment she stopped, so did the high.

Whitney Otto

#41. I am for deporting all recent unattached illegals. I am for a local citizen panel to consider certification of those who have been here 25 years and have family and community and have been law-abiding and tax-paying.

Newt Gingrich

#42. The selfless and unattached man may live in the very heart of a crowded and sinful city; he will not be touched by sin.

Swami Vivekananda

#43. Unattached and aimless, these old men are always infatuated with little certainties and regularities such as those that ordered the life of Mr. Krupper as seen from outside. Habit is living. Anything unexpected reminds them of death.
("Hard Candy")

Tennessee Williams

#44. Often, feelings of sadness, uneasiness, and loneliness are vague and unattached to specific events. This makes it more challenging to find ways to turn you mood around. When you find yourself in a funk, focus on what you're feeling.

G. Alan Marlatt

#45. The sage, traveling all day, Does not lose sight of his baggage. Though there are beautiful things to be seen, He remains unattached and calm.

Laozi

#46. The problem with love is attachment; love makes you dependent. Unattached love - you love for the hell of it.

Frederick Lenz

#47. Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern. They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.

Agnes Martin

#48. Unattached to man or matter,
You remain aloof and cold.

Mihai Eminescu

#49. Unattached details take all the sparkle out of your conversation.

Vladimir Nabokov

#50. Are you getting your period?" She narrows her eyes.
No! God. I hate that. I hate when every negative act is blamed on your period." Sometimes bitchiness is just bitchiness, happily unattached to anything hormonal. It should get full credit.

Deb Caletti