Renunciation Quotes - Page 6

• Seriousness is not Calvinistic, it's not a renunciation, it's the very opposite of that.

  Leonard Cohen

  Opposites, Seriousness

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the result.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving Up, Fall, Mean

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• Faith implies four things: self-renunciation, reliance with utter confidence on Christ, obedience, and a changed life.

  Billy Graham

  Self, Four, Christ

  Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.136, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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

  Joy, Looks, Cages

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• The Sermon on the Mount...went straight to my heart. I compared it with the Gita. My young mind tried to unify the teaching of the Gita, the `Light of Asia' and the Sermon on the Mount. That renunciation was the highest form of religion appealed to me greatly.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Teaching, Heart, Light

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• The price of civilization is instinctual renunciation.

  Sigmund Freud

  Civilization

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• I believe that renunciation of the Soviet Union was an expression of the free will of the Russian people.

  Vladislav Surkov

  Believe, Expression, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I set out with a perfect distrust of my own abilities, a total renunciation of every speculation of my own, and with a profound reverence for the wisdom of our ancestors, who have left us the inheritance of so happy a Constitution and so flourishing an empire, and, what is a thousand times more valuable, the treasury of the maxims and principles which formed the one and obtained the other.

  Edmund Burke

  Profound, Perfect, Principles

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.269

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• Love is the fruit of prayer ... Patiently abiding in prayer signifies a man's renunciation of himself. Therefore the self-denial of the soul turns into love for God.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Humility

  William Law, P. G. Stanwood (1978). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ; The Spirit of Love”, p.52, Paulist Press

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• An ideal sanctified by the sacrifices of such master spirits as Lenin cannot go in vain, the noble example of their renunciation will be emblazoned for ever and quicken and purify the ideal as time passes.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sacrifice, Example, Noble

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.97, Oxford University Press

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• 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 life. Now has fallen to the borderline between living and dead matter. It can exhibit living qualities only in a host, by using the life of another-the renunciation of life itself, a falling towards inorganic, inflexible machine, towards dead matter

  William S. Burroughs

  Fall, Independent, Quality

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.167, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• 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 abused liquor is something to be paid for with suffering and death perhaps but not renunciation.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Suffering And Death, Essentials, Facts

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• 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 than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Freedom, Mean, Individual Effort

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• Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Life Lesson, Liberty, Life Is

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• 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

  Dream, Character, Quality

  Fernando Pessoa (2005). “The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive”

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• 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 the word All economic change, therefore, would involve operations the value of which could neither be predicted beforehand nor ascertained after they had taken place. Everything would be a leap in the dark. Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Taken, Dark, Would Be

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• The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.

  Jack Kornfield

  Practice, Quality, Levels

  Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield (2001). “Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation”, p.57, Shambhala Publications

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• Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Forgiveness, Coward, Weakness

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.417, Manonmani Publishers

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• That renunciation of human closeness, of our deepest instincts: is it, in the end, simply too much to ask? Good men-sound, healthy men-can't make the sacrifice, or don't want to; has Holy Mother settled for the unsound and unhealthy? Has the Church, ever pragmatic, made do with what is left?

  Jennifer Haigh

  Mother, Sacrifice, Men

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• Chastity, non-injury, forgiving even the greatest enemy, truth, faith in the Lord, these are all different Vrittis. Be not afraid if you are not perfect in all of these; work, they will come. He who has given up all attachment, all fear, and all anger, he whose whole soul has gone unto the Lord, he who has taken refuge in the Lord, whose heart has become purified, with whatsoever desire he comes to the Lord, He will grant that to him. Therefore worship Him through knowledge, love, or renunciation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Taken, Heart

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.59, Advaita Ashrama

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• Once renunciation and the awakened mind have been fully realized, the way to Buddhahood is clear. Liberation is complete and such liberated beings are then Bodhisattvas and Buddhas: "enlightened ones," or "empty dwellers." Their usefulness to others both before and after their physical death, is impossible to conceive. They are nothing but useful energy leading to liberation for all beings still caught in conditioned existence.

  Maura O'Halloran

  Mind, Awakening, Way

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• There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out and since then this lake has always risen higher and higher. Perhaps the very act of renunciation provides us with the strength to bear it ; perhaps man will rise ever higher and higher when he no longer flows out into a God.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Lakes, Religion

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• Meditation means this opening out of the soul to the Divine and letting the Divine shine in without obstruction from the personal self. Therefore it means renunciation. It means throwing away everything that one has, and waiting empty for the light to come in.

  Annie Besant

  Mean, Light, Self

  Annie Besant (1894). “The Building of the Kosmos and Other Lectures”

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• Without marriage there will be no renunciation, Buddha would not have left the world - for what? His wife, Yashodhara, must have created the situation - Mahavira would not have escaped to the mountains. Without marriage there would have been no Buddha, no Mahavira. Just think: the history would have been very flat, without any salt, tasteless. Marriage keeps this whole "sorry-go-round" on and on. People call it "merry-go-round".

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Sorry, Thinking

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