Asceticism Quote by Ali ibn Abi Talib Download Open image “Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you.” — Ali ibn Abi Talib ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Asceticism Celebration Inspirational Islamic Love Should
It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
“By the principle of asceticism I mean that principle, which, like the principle of utility, approves or disapproves of any action, according to the… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“A Christian who practices asceticism trains himself to say no to his desires and yes to God.” — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
“That to own things did not necessarily mean one belonged; that possession was no guarantee of control” — Ninotchka Rosca Copy Share Image
“One can fully own a manufactured thing—a toaster, say, or a pair of shoes. But in what reasonable sense can one fully "own" and have "rights" to do whatever we want to land, water, air, and forests, which are among the most valuable assets in humanity's basic endowments? To say, in the march of eons, that we own these things… — Carl Safina Copy Share
You own what you own not by money or force, but by your love for it and your inner connection to it. — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
Do not be misled by appearances for these are apt to be deceptive. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
The weakest man is the one who is able to correct his moral defects, but doesn't take action. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
The one from among the Muslims who recites the Qur'an but in the end finds his way to hell, is considerd to be among… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
A calamity does not descend except due to a sin and it is not lifted except with repentance. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
One who is mild rather than forceful has greater capacity for outreach. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
“In his treatise on the battles between the gods underlying ancient Dionysian theatre, the young Nietzsche notes: 'Alas! The magic of these struggles is… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is not asceticism;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When you reach your sixties, you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Genuine asceticism for finding one's own soul and for the good of humanity is worthy of reverence. — Rama Swami Copy Share Image
Many modern scholars have found the asceticism expressed in Plato unacceptable; it does not sound like the advice of a reasonable man in the… — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
The dunyâ distracts and preoccupies the heart and body, but al-zuhd (asceticism, not giving importance to worldly things) gives rest to the heart and… — Hasan of Basra Copy Share Image