Each and every object in Nature teaches us something. Renunciation and selflessness are the greatest lessons to learn from Nature. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
It would not be going too far to assert that ... conflict confronts every woman who ventures upon a career of her… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
Always remember that renunciation is the root idea. Unless one is initiated into this idea, not even Brahma and the World -… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Solomon’s Song belongs to those who have made the greatest renunciation of all: the renunciation of self. For them, only the Beloved… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation. — Hafez Copy Share Image
People who are involved in self-discovery lead different types of lives. The lives they lead are not necessarily the lives of renunciation.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
An act of renunciation is an act of union with God. The Divine Master looks lovingly upon a person who gains a… — Madeleine Sophie Barat Copy Share Image
His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The reward of renunciation is some good greater than the thing renounced. To renounce with no vision of such a good, from… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
This world is nothing. It is at best only a hideous caricature, a shadow of the Real. We must go to the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“I never use the word renunciation at all. I say: "Rejoice in life,in love,in meditation,in the beauties of the world, in the… — Osho Copy Share Image
Industry, technology, and commerce can thrive only as long as an idealistic national community offers the necessary preconditions. And these do not… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
To ask for overt renunciation of a cherished doctrine is to expect too much of human nature. Men do not repudiate the… — J. William Fulbright 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
Even in this secular country, the threat posed by religious fundamentalists is never very far away. Every major religious text exhorts the… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
I'm no Buddhist monk, and I can't say I'm in love with renunciation in itself, or traveling an hour or more to… — Pico Iyer 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
What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words, renunciation is… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
That parrot's non-co-operation with the cage, with its master, will live for ever because it looks upon renunciation, non-co-operation, as a joy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Renunciation which is natural does not herald its coming by the blowing of trumpets. It comes in imperceptibly without letting anyone notice… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I dare predict that the influence of the Treaty of Renunciation of War will be felt in a large proportion of all… — Herbert Hoover 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
Faith implies four things: self-renunciation, reliance with utter confidence on Christ, obedience, and a changed life. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I say that when you have perceived or attained the goal, compromises, renunciations, do not exist. If you have seen the goal,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
An ideal sanctified by the sacrifices of such master spirits as Lenin cannot go in vain, the noble example of their renunciation… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its… — 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
O Lord, self-renunciation is not the work of one day, nor children's sport; yea, rather in this word is included all perfection. — Thomas a Kempis 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
To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“All these white folks that move to LA, they don't just come here looking for something. I think they also tryin' to… — Philip Wyeth Copy Share Image
The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
But the others, those who tried to bring Jesus to life at the call of love, found it a cruel task to… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“The only difference between a Gnani and a renunciate is that the Gnani prevails in a state of saiyam (absence of anger-pride-deceit-greed and attachment-abhorrence), whereas a… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
If we spend the time we waste in sighing for the perfect golden fruit in fulfilling the conditions of its growth, happiness… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Try to understand this rightly. When the powerful renounce, they let go of things that they feel to be worthless, of no… — Osho Copy Share Image