Category: Happiness Quotes

“We adopt a policy of keeping our hands off other people’s responsibilities and tend to our own instead. If people have created some disasters for themselves, we allow them to face their own proverbial music.” – Freeing the Music, Author Unknown

“Detachment is not a cold, hostile withdrawal, a resigned, despairing surrender. It is a conscious choice to live in the present moment, to let go of the past, and to not cling to the future.” – Freeing the Self, Author Unknown

“He is the same in pleasure and pain, cold and warmth, victory and defeat for he is detached.” – Bhagavad Gita

“Enjoy the moment while it is there, and when the moment starts disappearing, as everything is bound to disappear, let it go. That is detachment.”– Rajneesh

“Indifference looks like detachment, but it is not; indifference is simply no interest. Detachment is not the absence of interest. Detachment is absolute interest, tremendous interest, but still with the capacity of non-clinging.”– Rajneesh

“Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.”– Simone Weil

“You can be loving, caring, interested in people, and yet keep a certain measure of detachment. This would protect you from becoming too attached for your own good or emotionally drained by negative people.” – Remez Sasso

“There are many more ordinary hours in life than extraordinary ones. We wait in line at the supermarket. We spend hours commuting to work. We clean our house and cook our food. Happiness means finding a moment of joy in those ordinary hours.” – Haemin Sunim, The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down

“It is impossible to build one’s own happiness on the unhappiness of others. – Daisaku Ikeda

“In Zen we say, ‘Go with the stream,’ but sometimes you have to go against the stream. Then you feel very lonely, but that seems to be part of the package. Loneliness.” – Carol Adrienne, Purpose Of Your Life