Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Patience and endurance were not virtues in a woman; they were necessities, forced on her. Perhaps some day things would change and… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
... we should not worry about clothes or food? Such anxiety is a mark of? unbelievers, who reject the providence of the… — Evagrius Ponticus Copy Share Image
A guy calls me a genius, and I'm going to renounce? I'm not going to renounce him. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“Why should you renounce everything? You are all right as you are, following the middle...” — Sri Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
We can't experience all that Heaven has to offer until we renounce all that the world offers in its place. — Mark Hart Copy Share Image
Good fortune leads one to the highest glory, But to renounce it calls for equal courage. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
Renounce all things, and thou shalt find all things; give up thy lust, and thou shalt find rest. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In Dante the hero would rather flee and renounce the tempting embrace instead of yielding to his desires and enduring the attendant… — Peter Weiss Copy Share Image
It is possible to renounce everything and attain enlightenment. But most people don't want to renounce; they wish to run away from… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve… — David Mallet Copy Share Image
The life of this transitory world is the expectation of death: to renounce life is to escape from the expectation of annihilation. — Saib Tabrizi Copy Share Image
When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
Anyone who renounces the world must love all men, for he renounces their world too. He thus begins to have some inkling… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Our nuclear free status is a statement of our belief that we and our fellow human beings can build the institutions which… — David Lange Copy Share Image
It is always for greater joy that you give up the lesser. This is practical religion-the attainment of freedom, renunciation. Renounce the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We need some contact with the things we sprang from. We need nature at least as a part of the context of… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
The cultivation of generosity is the beginning of spiritual awakening. Generosity has tremendous force because it arises from an inner quality of… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
One might expect, perhaps, that a man full of genius could pasture in the greatness of his own thoughts, and renounce the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses. I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a… — A. J. Muste Copy Share Image
If Christians around the world were to suddenly renounce their personal agendas, their life goals and their aspirations, and begin responding in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I don't believe in art like I used to. I believe in something beyond it, something that contains art and everything else.… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place. We stay there even though we go away and there are… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
We are not to renounce our senses and experience, nor (that which is the undoubted Word of God) our natural Reason. For… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Since Israel would rather re-experience Masada than renounce the core Zionist objective of establishing a Jewish state, the only one-state "solution" on… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
The fact is that a "minor exorcism" takes place in every Baptism and Confirmation ceremony when we renounce Satan and all his… — Thomas J. Paprocki Copy Share Image
What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The higher life begins for us ... when we renounce our own will to bow before a Divine law. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I beg you to abnegate me because, I don’t have the strength to renounce you.” — Nely Cab Copy Share Image
You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion. — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
