Detach Sad Quotes & Sayings

I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which is immense and without borders, where life is lived in the present. In this limitless nation, this nation of wind, light, and peace, there is no other ruler besides the sea. — Bernard Moitessier

Drinking the energy of the universe
Breathing along with the Cosmos
With each breath
I am reborn
Into a brand new existence. — Ilchi Lee

Never make a speech at a country dance or a football game. — Lyndon B. Johnson

If people in this country think of Africa as a place with kids and flies swarming around their heads, then they won't understand that these people are you and you are them. — Don Cheadle

She already got the blue dress on I ironed this morning, the one with sixty-five pleats on the waist, so tiny I got to squint through my glasses to iron. I don't hate much in life, but me and that dress is not on good terms. — Kathryn Stockett

There is inside you all of the potential to be whatever you want to be all of the energy to do whatever you want to do. — Donna Levin

the view of many reasonable people in 1933, just as it is the view of many reasonable people now. — Timothy Snyder

Don't let your failures define you. — Barack Obama

Pride kept her from confiding in the other girls, and caution kept her from confessing to the older women. — Ursula K. Le Guin

My first inkling of what the Commonwealth might really mean came only when I escaped the oddly British-tinged Asia I had known and went to live in the Philippines. — Romesh Gunesekera

Most people believe the journey they begin with Christ goes forward, but that is not how he works. A spiritual life is not cutting ties with people, in order to walk clean in the future. The journey home isn't running away from obstacles. It is learning to stand where you are now and handle people, assert yourself, set boundaries and never feel your happiness is dependent on another person's approval of your choices, beliefs or spiritual needs. — Shannon L. Alder

The most disappointing thing this week is that Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan, because he was the intellectual leader of the Republican Party. Because Paul Ryan decided to join Mitt Romney's ticket, he is completely reversed himself on some of the issues he has been very strong on, like the $716 billion in savings that are in two of his budgets. — Stephanie Cutter

The idea that you could rethink the thing you'd always thought you wanted and change your plan - it was almost a revolutionary concept. That you could choose what would make you happy, not successful -Andie — Morgan Matson

I don't wish to denigrate a sport that is enjoyed by millions, some of them awake and facing the right way, but it is an odd game. It is the only sport that incorporates meal breaks. It is the only sport that shares its name with an insect. It is the only sport in which spectators burn as many calories as players - more if they are moderately restless. It is the only competitive activity of any type, other than perhaps baking, in which you can dress in white from head to toe and be as clean at the end of the day as you were at the beginning. — Bill Bryson

What is human life? Is it not a maimed happiness - care and weariness, weariness and care, with the baseless expectation...of a brighter tomorrow? — Ernest Renan