“It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.”
Sigmund Freud
“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 are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.”
Paulo Coelho
“To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.”
Anthony Burgess
“Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.”
Ramakrishna
“There are no heroes of action: only heroes of renunciation and suffering - Out of My Life and Thoughts.”
Albert Schweitzer
“With renunciation life begins.”
Natalie Clifford Barney
“By this attitude of complete renunciation you shall be freed from the bondage, good and bad, of Karma. You shall be liberated, and come to Me.”
Bhagavad Gita