“On God's part creation is not an act of self-expansion but of restraint and renunciation.” — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The Bhakta (devotee) renounces all little loves for the almighty and omnipresent love. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Seriousness is not Calvinistic, it's not a renunciation, it's the very opposite of that. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“an ascetic might be a pauper, but he has ashrams where love, happiness, and prosperity overflow.” — Merlin Franco Copy Share Image
Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“As it was now evident that the future was to be one of renunciation, of self-forgetting, an oblivion tinged with bitterness, he… — William Dean Howells 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
"I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher." That is renunciation. Then, by the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The highest and greatest goal that every soul has to reach is God. As everything needs renunciation, that highest goal needs the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of independent thought, which draws from all religions; his is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The person whose mind is always free from attachment, who has subdued the mind and senses, and who is free from desires,… — Bhagavad Gita Copy Share Image
There is a great force in renunciation of power that those who are blinded by the lust for domination cannot understand because… — Alison Croggon 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
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
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
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
Renunciation - non-resistance - non-destructiveness - are the ideals to be attained through less and less worldliness, less and less resistance, less… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Agrarian Anabaptists, Christian Scientists, and Samurai are among the rare examples of renunciation stemming from an unwillingness to sacrifice the spiritual qualities… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
Security can be found in renunciation of ownership over people, money, and real assets; to gain, keep or protect that which others… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Plunge into the world, and then, after a time, when you have suffered and enjoyed all that is in it, will renunciation… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“All the same, I'm sure that if one is brave then recovery comes from within, through complete acceptance of suffering and death,… — Vincent van Gogh 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
“During long cross-country wanders, you do glimpse that freedom of pure renunciation. When you walk for a long time, there comes a… — Frédéric Gros 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
“Even though [an ascetic] may wear white or ochre attire, yet vikalp (the belief that ‘I am Chandubhai’ and all the relative… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“So what is the answer? How can you stand your ground when you are weak and sensitive to pain, when people you… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“It takes a few years for a nature which thirsts for strong mutual love and intellectual communion to reach the point of… — Gerard Noel Copy Share Image
![“Even though [an ascetic] may wear white or ochre attire, yet vikalp (the belief that ‘I am Chandubhai’ and all the relative ‘I-ness’ that stems from it) does not go away. A householder will have false notions (vikalp) that, 'I am aquiring things,' whereas an ascetic will have false notions that 'I…” quote by Dada Bhagwan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/778/dada-bhagwan-31_faith_even-though-an-ascetic-may-wear-white-or_1813414.jpg)
