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
Sri Yukteswar used to poke gentle fun at the commonly inadequate conceptions of renunciation."A beggar cannot renounce wealth," Master would say. "If… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“Emotional exhaustion follows fast on the footsteps of physical and mental depletion. I feel my lifeblood draining away in an oily spigot… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“And he is not at an age right for renunciation; he has not even entered the stage of the householder, as befits… — Bāṇabhaṭṭa Copy Share Image
Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous. It is not knowledge, not content of feeling... it is not duty and not renunciation, it… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
We need a total renunciation of war. We must renounce war totally, because now we can destroy all life on earth. — Benjamin Creme Copy Share Image
“The result of external penance and renunciation is worldly life, meaning that one acquires material pleasures and gradually one even attains the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Highest love for God can never be achieved without renunciation. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Renunciation (tyaag) should be natural and spontaneous. [That which is to be renounced] should fall off on its own indeed. ” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Give up, renounce the world. Now we are like dogs strayed into a kitchen and eating a piece of meat, looking round… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The great renunciation of old age as it prepared for death, wraps itself up in its chrysalis, which may be observed at… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I set out with a perfect distrust of my own abilities, a total renunciation of every speculation of my own, and with… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There can be no love so long as there is lust- even a speck of it, as it were, in the heart.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“I have in all humility felt that perfect renunciation [of fruits] is impossible without perfect observance of ahimsa in every shape and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and those who have nothing to give up preach renunciation. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“It’s not even that you have to drop vain pursuits. God is not asking you to give up your sweeties, your favorite… — Mooji Copy Share Image
“The penance and renunciation that one is told to do is actually under the authority of the non-Self (parsatta). So how can… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
There are the spiritually consumptive ones: hardly are they born when they begin to die, and long for doctrines of lassitude and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring… — Beatrice Webb Copy Share Image
Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies a delicious… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
I find C major to be the key of strength, but also the key of regret. E major is the key of… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
