Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Desirelessness or renunciation does not come for the mere talking about it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Who hath desires must ever fearful be; Who lives in fear cannot be counted free.” — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
“Cling to the One who clings to nothing; And so clinging, cease to cling.” — Tiruvalluvar Copy Share Image
The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“No true artist is possible without sorrow and suffering and renunciation.” — Jessie Fothergill Copy Share Image
Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Renunciation is the art of removing the barriers between one’s self and others.” — Amit Ray 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
every choice has its obverse, that is to say a renunciation, and so there is no difference between the act of choosing… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“2.27 THE ULTIMATE With compassion and renunciation walking, With wants and desires ever shedding, With love within one’s heart flowing, Peace and… — Munindra (Munnan) Misra Copy Share Image
The life of Gautama Buddha illustrates the power of service, compassion and, most importantly, renunciation. He was convinced that material wealth is… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
“To renounce active life in the world rather than one's own grasping and clinging is to forgo the chance to awaken.” — Dale S. Wright Copy Share Image
According to the letter of the Gita, it is possible to say that warfare is consistent with renunciation of fruit. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Buddha gave up his throne and renounced his position, that was true renunciation; but there cannot be any question of renunciation in… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Both renunciation of action and the performance of action lead to Nirvana (Liberation); but these performance of action is superior to renunciation… — Chinmayananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
“I once renounced my home in Calcutta, and roamed around the villages of Bengal as a monk. But after I attained the… — Abhijit Naskar 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
“Renunciation and saiyam are two different things. Renunciation is where one gives up all marital ties, parental ties, financial ties and material possessions. What… — Dada Bhagwan 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
... it is one of the gains of advancing age that the good of young creatures becomes a more definite intense joy… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Saiyam (a state free of anger-pride-deceit-greed, attachment and abhorrence) cannot be attained through egoism. Renunciation can take place through egoism. In renouncing,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
If you wish to see the blessings which "God has prepared for those who love Him" (I COR 2:9), then take up… — Niketas Stethatos Copy Share Image
If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
True renunciation can be attained by anyone - whether a millionaire, parent, student, politician, farmer or engineer. It's not what you have… — Radhanath Swami 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
“Renunciation Suzuki Roshi said, “Renunciation is not giving up the things of this world, but accepting that they go away.” Everything is… — Charlotte J. Beck 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
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
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
The conclusion to which I am ever more clearly coming is that the only hope of attaining a true system of economics… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
“these cause the ideas of renunciation and solitude to germinate in him? Was he, in the midst” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Everything is fraught with fear: Renunciation alone is fearless. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Zen is not a renunciation, it is a rejoicing. It is the manifesto of dance and celebration. — OSHO Copy Share Image