Renunciation Quotes

As a parent you have to do some renunciation.

— Robert Bly

“Life was that — humiliation, renunciation.”

— Virginia Woolf

Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy.

— Ludwig von Mises

Renunciation is of the mind.

— Swami Vivekananda

“Renunciation is liberation. Not wanting is power.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“There is no merit in the renunciation of a beggar.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Renunciation is everyone's prerogative.

— Mahatma Gandhi

What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.

— Albert Camus

Live for an ideal and leave no place in the mind for anything else.

— Swami Vivekananda

Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.

— Emily Dickinson

Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.

— Ramakrishna

Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.

— Rabindranath Tagore

The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.

— Jack Kornfield

If you love God, tear out your heart's love of the world.

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Richard Wurmbrand

The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private,…

— Cesare Pavese

The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the…

— A. J. Muste

“Renunciation, or refusing to identify with that which one gathers (however precious it may be), is the ultimate doorway to knowing.”

— Sadhguru

“What has God called a religion? Renunciation is not religion. To be free of anger-pride-deceit-greed (kashays) is religion; or to have feeble…

— Dada Bhagwan

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring…

— Beatrice Webb

The recollected go forth to lives of renunciation. They take no pleasure in a fixed abode. Like wild swans abandoning a pool,…

— Gautama Buddha

I find C major to be the key of strength, but also the key of regret. E major is the key of…

— Bob Dylan

A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy…

— Eric Hoffer

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

Industry, technology, and commerce can thrive only as long as an idealistic national community offers the necessary preconditions. And these do not…

— Adolf Hitler

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

— Swami Vivekananda

“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

Renunciation mind has nothing to do with sacrificing. When we talk about renunciation, somwhow we get all scared because we think that…

— Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between…

— Roger Scruton

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

“This kind of renunciation, in fact, has often been the strength, born of necessity, of the world's disinherited, of those who do…

— Julius Evola

When? At this time, while you have all the opportunities, if you do not do your best to achieve the pure, stainless…

— Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

Gorbachev's administration was amazingly politically naïve, inexperienced and irresponsible towards the country. It was not governance but a thoughtless renunciation of power.…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It is human self-renunciation when a man denies himself and the world opens up to him. But it is Christian self-renunciation when…

— Soren Kierkegaard

In every Magical, or similar system, it is invariably the first condition which the Aspirant must fulfill: he must once and for…

— Aleister Crowley

“Vairâgya or renunciation is the turning point in all the various Yogas. The Karmi (worker) renounces the fruits of his work. The…

— 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…

— Sigmund Freud

“Renunciation isn't a moral imperative or a form of self-denial. It's simply cooperation with the way things are: for moments do pass…

— Norman Fischer

“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