DETACHMENT

Terry Cole-Whittaker
What you think of me is none of my business.

Shunryu Suzuki Roshi
To renounce things is not to give them up. It is to acknowledge that all things go away.

Ryokan
Desire nothing, and you’re content with everything. Pursue things, and you’re thwarted at every turn.

Homer Simpson (“The Simpson’s”)

You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is “never try”. 

Dan Millman

The time is now, the place is here. Safety is in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope.

Dorothy Thompson

Disillusion comes only to the illusioned. One cannot be disillusioned of what one never put faith in.

Joshu

The great way is not difficult. Simply avoid picking and choosing.

Thomas Jefferson

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

G. Christoph Lichtenberg

Nothing is more conducive to peace of the mind than not having any opinions at all.

Jessica Hatchigan

There’s an important difference between giving up and letting go.

Leo F. Buscaglia

Ninety per-cent of what we worry about never happens, yet we worry and worry. What a horrible way to go through life!

D.H. Lawrence

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

Mark Twain

• I have spent most of my time worrying about things that have never happened.

• Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

George Carlin

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

Alan Watts

Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars or between well and badly arranged constellations.

Joseph Campbell

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Ashleigh Brilliant 

I think I’ll just sit here and wait till life gets better.

Sara Schurr (Aranya) 

Stress comes from putting yourself in the position of constantly reacting to others' input.  

Alan Cohen

You don't have to make someone else wrong for you to be right.

Norman Vincent Peale

Respond to emergencies in a casual manner.

Lao Tzu

• To be happy, manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. • In pursuit of knowledge, every day something is acquired. In pursuit of wisdom, every day something is dropped.

Author unknown

It may seem that I have locked myself away from the people of the world, and yet, why is it I have never ceased to think of them?