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Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.
— Gautama Buddha
The only way to become an eccentric is to end your relationship with extroverts.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men
— Fernando Pessoa
During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.
— Alexander Alekhine
I might become an ascetic, live in India. A little rice is about the best I can do now.
— Gore Vidal
The fearful ascetic runs on foot, along the surface.
Lovers move like lightning and wind.
No contest. — Jalaluddin Rumi
Lovers move like lightning and wind.
No contest. — Jalaluddin Rumi
The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.
— George Bernard Shaw
A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
— A.J. Liebling
It was a dictum of his that the soul's energy thrives when the body's desires are feeblest.
— St.Athanasius
ascetic practices.
— Elaine Pagels
He might be living on mice, but Chesterton does not look like an animal who is governed by his appetites. He's an ascetic, if Cathbad ever saw one.
— Elly Griffiths
A dominant religion is never ascetic.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The devout life does not solely entail living as a monk or ascetic, though that is fine. The devout life requires bringing God into all things.
— David Paul Kirkpatrick
I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.
— Gustave Flaubert
The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful nostalgia.
— Paul Evdokimov
The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Power and courtly influence form an intoxicating draught even when raised to the lips of an ascetic and a saint.
— James Fitzjames Stephen
A non-materialist. And yet you are unpleasantly fat. A gluttonous ascetic? Such a contradiction.
— Orson Scott Card
We need to become sidha (straightforward); there is no need to become a sadhu (ascetic).
— Dada Bhagwan
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
— Bertrand Russell
The true religion is monastic, ascetic, authoritarian, hierarchical.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
I'm not an ascetic.
— David Mamet
In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Mother Teresa was the very embodiment of saintliness: white-clad, sad-eyed, ascetic and often photographed with the wretched of the earth.
— Steven Pinker
And showed him to be a villa-dwelling dependent and not an ascetic cave-dwelling guerrilla.
— Christopher Hitchens
Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
— Ramakrishna