Danielle Steel Quotes

I think there is a very powerful wish that we all have of being self-contained and having sort of opted out or choosing to remove ourselves from society and to have no ties and no obligations, and even no possessions. To be free in a particular way.

I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.

One of the most important of life´s lessons is to learn independance, to understand freedom. This means independence from attachments, from results, from opinions, and from expectations. Breaking attachments leads to freedom, but breaking attachments does not mean abandoning a loving and meaningful relationship, a relationship that nourrishes your soul. It means ending dependency on any person or thing. Love is never a dependency.

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

I don't like to attach myself to material things.

Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.

I feel alone, free, and detached from everything in the world, and I'm happy.

He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and bondage brings only misery. Live alone in your mind - that is happiness. To have nobody to care for and never minding who cares for one is the way to be free.

you can survive only if nothing is necessary to you

Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing "noses on us," as in the case of the man who had three boons to ask. We never get freedom until we are self-contained. "Self is the Saviour of self, none else."

If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.

Jude's rule number five: Never get to close to anyone or anything that you can't walk away at a moment's notice if you have to. When you have to.

Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality.

There is nothing I can't live without. I learned this attitude when I was a child.

I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.

When you find peace within, you also find that you can do without. This means simply that you no longer need the things of your outside world, and not needing is a great freedom.

To remember non-attachment is to remember what freedom is all about. If we get attached, even to a beautiful state of being, we are caught, and ultimately we will suffer. We work to observe anything that comes our way, experience it while it is here, and be able to let go of it.

Home has always been wherever I am. I'm not very attached to walls - or people, for that matter - so I've always loved travelling around. A book in my back pocket, a diary, and a pen is all I need to call any place home.

I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.