(25 quotes found)
“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
“Renunciation of the fruit of work is better than meditation.”
Bhagavad Gita
“There are no heroes of action: only heroes of renunciation and suffering - Out of My Life and Thoughts.”
Albert Schweitzer
“Those who conquer their minds are beings of renunciation and detachment. They are beings of renunciation and detachment they are lovingly focused on the True One, they realize and understand themselves.”
Guru Nanak
“It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.”
Sigmund Freud
“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.”
“A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.”
Simone Weil