Renunciation Quotes

125 quotes by 77 authors

There is a great force in renunciation of power that those who are blinded by the lust for domination cannot understand because those who truly… — Alison Croggon
Senator Lugar will also travel to Libya for official meetings as a part of the president's initiative to move toward more normal relations reflecting that… — Dana Perino
The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism lies, as it… — John le Carre
Religion and practical life are not different. To take sanyas (renunciation) is not to abandon life. The real spirit is to make the country, your… — Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Renunciation is the background of all religious thought wherever it be, and you will always find that as this idea of renunciation lessens, the more… — Swami Vivekananda
Tremendous purity, tremendous renunciation, is the one secret of spirituality. â€œNeither through wealth, nor through progeny, but through renunciation alone is immortality to be reached,â€… — Swami Vivekananda
This world is nothing. It is at best only a hideous caricature, a shadow of the Real. We must go to the Real. Renunciation will… — Swami Vivekananda
Days come and ages pass, and it is ever he who moves my heart in many a name, in many a guise, in many a… — Rabindranath Tagore
A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed… — Victor Hugo
I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact that I have… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It is because freedom means the renunciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Those... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like shining lights, having… — Gautama Buddha
The recollected go forth to lives of renunciation. They take no pleasure in a fixed abode. Like wild swans abandoning a pool, they leave one… — Gautama Buddha
If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be. — Fernando Pessoa
With renunciation life begins. — Natalie Clifford Barney
To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art. — Albert Camus
Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense of… — Ludwig von Mises
Renunciation is not about pushing something away, it is about letting go. It's facing the fact that certain things cause us pain, and they cause… — Noah Levine
The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation. — Jack Kornfield

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