The Bhakta (devotee) renounces all little loves for the almighty and omnipresent love. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Live for an ideal and leave no place in the mind for anything else. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every choice is a thousand renunciations. To choose one thing is to turn one's back on many others. — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
Renunciation, and renunciation alone, is the real secret, the Mulamantra, of all Realisation. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Highest love for God can never be achieved without renunciation. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Love is the fruit of prayer ... Patiently abiding in prayer signifies a man's renunciation of himself. Therefore the self-denial of the… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
“Renunciation is actually a result of the unfolding karma, whereas saiyam, a state in which there is absence of anger-pride-deceit-greed and attachment-abhorrence, is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“In renunciation, egoism is present; [but] there is no egoism in saiyam (a state in which there is absence of anger, pride,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The highest and greatest goal that every soul has to reach is God. As everything needs renunciation, that highest goal needs the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a great force in renunciation of power that those who are blinded by the lust for domination cannot understand because… — Alison Croggon Copy Share Image
“Vairagya (renunciation) does not mean giving up your wife and children and running away to a forest. The removal of the bad… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of independent thought, which draws from all religions; his is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The person whose mind is always free from attachment, who has subdued the mind and senses, and who is free from desires,… — Bhagavad Gita Copy Share Image
“Renunciation & acquisition are both at the gross level, while being irritated and having love [for someone] are at the subtle level. The two cannot be equated with… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The entrance of the woman with equal rights into practical modern life, her new freedom, her finding herself side by side with… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from a more complex life form. It may at one time have been… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
If there is such a thing as saintly renunciation, it is renouncing small gains for better gains; not for no gains, but… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
The Sermon on the Mount...went straight to my heart. I compared it with the Gita. My young mind tried to unify the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Consider carefully the merest event: in the best of cases, the positive and negative elements that participate in it balance out; generally… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
That intense faith in another world, that intense hatred for this world, that intense power of renunciation, that intense faith in God,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“One of the biggest dangers on the left-hand path, according to Zeena, is that the initiate often adheres to the need of… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Love makes no distinction between man and man, between an Aryan and a Mlechchha, between a Brâhmana and a Pariah, nor even… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Renunciation, The Natural Daughter demonstrates, is the act of those who believe that their happiness is dependent on a power beyond their… — Nicholas Boyle Copy Share Image
A universal renunciation of violence requires the commitment of the whole of society. These are not matters of government but matters of… — Federico Mayor Zaragoza Copy Share Image
“This is where renunciation enters the picture--renunciation of the hope that our experience could be different, renunciation of the hope that we… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“The renunciation that increases anger-pride-deceit-greed (kashay) cannot possibly be renunciation.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image