Renunciation Quotes

125 Renunciation quotes by 77 unique authors

A mutually fulfilled sexual union between two people is the rarest sensation which life can provide. But it is not quite real. It stops when… — Cyril Connolly
If you love God, tear out your heart's love of the world. — Muhammad Ali
A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations of the day. — Rose Macaulay
Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another. — Eric Hoffer
Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous. It is not knowledge, not content of feeling... it is not duty and not renunciation, it is not restriction:… — Rainer Maria Rilke
How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation. — Hafez
The oath of renunciation and allegiance is a solemn vow taken by thousands of immigrants each year to become a United States citizen. The oath… — Jim Ryun
It would not be going too far to assert that ... conflict confronts every woman who ventures upon a career of her own and who… — Karen Horney
People who are involved in self-discovery lead different types of lives. The lives they lead are not necessarily the lives of renunciation. Rather, it is… — Frederick Lenz
Each and every object in Nature teaches us something. Renunciation and selflessness are the greatest lessons to learn from Nature. — Mata Amritanandamayi
The way to liberation lies through this realization of the Self, by God-communion and by remaining in this God-aware state of the soul while performing… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and those who have nothing to give up preach renunciation. — Eric Hoffer
He was a worker whose only desire was to penetrate with all his forces into the humble and difficult significance of his tools. Therein lay… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves… — Beatrice Webb
Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-. — Emily Dickinson
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct. — Sigmund Freud
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly. — Charles Dickens
What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage. — Gertrude Stein
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war. — Simone Weil
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you… — Paulo Coelho

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