Every choice is a thousand renunciations. To choose one thing is to turn one's back on many others. — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
Chastity, non-injury, forgiving even the greatest enemy, truth, faith in the Lord, these are all different Vrittis. Be not afraid if you… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
That this is possible may not be denied in a world where hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people voluntarily submit to… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and everything shall be added unto you. This is the one great duty, this is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Fascism, in so far as it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity quite apart from political considerations of… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
As Shantideva says, suffering has many good qualities because it purifies our negative karma, increases our renunciation and compassion, reduces our pride,… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso 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
Nietzsche inveighs against every sort of historical optimism; but he energetically repudiates the ordinary pessimism, which is the result of degenerate or… — Georg Brandes 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
Assess the work of whatever others do to you or say about you, and cultivate fortitude and the understanding to appreciate their… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“Renunciation is transforming all negative and positive energies of life into unconditional love for every being in the universe.” — Amit Ray 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
What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is only when we begin to relax with ourselves that meditation becomes a transformative process. Only when we relate with ourselves… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
A mutually fulfilled sexual union between two people is the rarest sensation which life can provide. But it is not quite real.… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“As long as one does not have Knowledge of the Self, his renunciation (tyaag) will give result. And after attaining the Knowledge of the Self, there… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
What if one of the core elements of a radical Christianity lay in a demand that we betray it, while the ultimate… — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The child begins life as a pleasure-seeking animal; his infantile personality is organized around his own appetites and his own body. In… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
Tremendous purity, tremendous renunciation, is the one secret of spirituality. “Neither through wealth, nor through progeny, but through renunciation alone is immortality… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
