Solomon’s Song belongs to those who have made the greatest…

“In Solomon’s Song, Jesus did not come out and say where He feeds His flock. He wants us to think for ourselves. But on…

— Richard Wurmbrand

This world is nothing. It is at best only a hideous caricature, a shadow of the Real. We must go to the Real. Renunciation…

— Swami Vivekananda

Renunciation, and renunciation alone, is the real secret, the Mulamantra, of all Realisation.

— Swami Vivekananda

The secret of a happy life lies in renunciation. Renunciation is life.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is nothing so high as renunciation of self.

— Swami Vivekananda

“As it was now evident that the future was to be one of renunciation, of self-forgetting, an oblivion tinged with bitterness, he formlessly reasoned…

— William Dean Howells

“It seems absurd for a man of twenty-eight to renounce the pleasures of life, doing violence to his nature by a pure act of…

— Reiner Stach

“Emotional exhaustion follows fast on the footsteps of physical and mental depletion. I feel my lifeblood draining away in an oily spigot of inner…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its works, as…

— Mark Hopkins

“The life of the cenobite is a human problem. When we speak of convents, those seats of error but innocence, of mistaken views but…

— Victor Hugo

“In spiritual matters, the only real glory is in the renunciation of glorifying self.”

— Richard Wurmbrand

There is no end to renunciation.

— Swami Vivekananda

“Actually, the substitution of the reality-principle for the pleasure-principle denotes no dethronement of the pleasure-principle, but only a safeguarding of it. A momentary pleasure,…

— Sigmund Freud

Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense…

— Ludwig von Mises

Renunciation is in our blood.

— Swami Vivekananda