Renunciation Quotes

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What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation. — Albert Camus
Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away. — Robert Baker Aitken
What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words, renunciation is making yourself more… — Chogyam Trungpa
Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again did he preach… — Swami Vivekananda
Renunciation means that none can serve both God and Mammon. — Swami Vivekananda
A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for… — Eric Hoffer
Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies a delicious taste of simplicity… — Matthieu Ricard
I teach you joy, not sadness. I teach you playfulness, not seriousness. I teach you love and laughter, because to me there is nothing more… — Rajneesh
Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty. — Henri Frederic Amiel
If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand… — Samuel Adams
"I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher." That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation,… — Swami Vivekananda
To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea. That realization… — Swami Vivekananda
States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between states is also… — Roger Scruton
The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good. — A J Muste
To be unattached is not to renounce the world. If you renounce the world you are attached to the world; otherwise why should you renounce… — Rajneesh
Both renunciation of action and the performance of action lead to Nirvana (Liberation); but these performance of action is superior to renunciation of action. The… — Chinmayananda Saraswati
In any activity, we have to know what to expect, how to reach our objectives and what capacity we possess for the proposed task. The… — Paulo Coelho
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and… — Leo Tolstoy
That this is possible may not be denied in a world where hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people voluntarily submit to celibacy, obligated and… — Adolf Hitler
It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from a more complex life form. It may at one time have been capable of independent… — William S. Burroughs

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