Renunciation, and renunciation alone, is the real secret, the Mulamantra, of all Realisation. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Highest love for God can never be achieved without renunciation. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Explosive force of any mortification. Every vanquished desire affords us power. We have the more hold over this world the further we… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
Those... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It is because freedom means the renunciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Renunciation doesn't mean giving up things externally but rather it means diligently pulling out the weeds from the heart. — Radhanath Swami 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
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
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
A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call… — Eric Hoffer 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
It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from a more complex life form. It may at one time have been… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The entrance of the woman with equal rights into practical modern life, her new freedom, her finding herself side by side with… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
The Sermon on the Mount...went straight to my heart. I compared it with the Gita. My young mind tried to unify the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If there is such a thing as saintly renunciation, it is renouncing small gains for better gains; not for no gains, but… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Meditation means this opening out of the soul to the Divine and letting the Divine shine in without obstruction from the personal… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Love makes no distinction between man and man, between an Aryan and a Mlechchha, between a Brâhmana and a Pariah, nor even… — 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
“Letting go of fear, attachment, grief and anger is the sannyasin's renunciation. He savours only the taste of his oneness with the… — Nirvana Upnishad 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
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
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
Renunciation made for the sake of service is an ineffable joy of which none can deprive anyone, because that nectar springs from… — Mahatma Gandhi 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
Faith implies four things: self-renunciation, reliance with utter confidence on Christ, obedience, and a changed life. — Billy Graham 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
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
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
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
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
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
“I wish to go down under the waters— the cool, crystalline waters that I knew, where all that is, here, existing, is… — John Daniel Thieme Copy Share Image
Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“There are Tantrics who deliberately seek to do more active forms of renunciation, so transgression of social norms and breaking of taboo,… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
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