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The secret of a happy life lies in renunciation. Renunciation is life. — Mahatma Gandhi

The renunciation of the Gita is the acid test of faith. — Mahatma Gandhi

Renunciation is submission to time. — Simone Weil

There is no merit in the renunciation of a beggar. — Swami Vivekananda

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

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others. — Beatrice Webb

The renunciation of doing harm is the perfection of discipline — Shantideva

Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit. — Mahatma Gandhi

Renunciation, or refusing to identify with that which one gathers (however precious it may be), is the ultimate doorway to knowing. — Sadhguru

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

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art. — Anthony Burgess

Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another. — Eric Hoffer

Highest love for God can never be achieved without renunciation. — Swami Vivekananda

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

Renunciation means that none can serve both God and Mammon. — Swami Vivekananda

According to the letter of the Gita, it is possible to say that warfare is consistent with renunciation of fruit. — Mahatma Gandhi

Each and every object in Nature teaches us something. Renunciation and selflessness are the greatest lessons to learn from Nature. — Mata Amritanandamayi

Renunciation without aversion is not lasting. — Mahatma Gandhi

Renunciation is everyone's prerogative. — Mahatma Gandhi

Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight. — Rabindranath Tagore

The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation. — Jack Kornfield

We need a total renunciation of war. We must renounce war totally, because now we can destroy all life on earth. — Benjamin Creme

Marriage is a state of penance. It calls for prayer, fasting, alms-deeds, renunciation, and the intention to increase the Kingdom of God. — Anne Catherine Emmerich

The meaning of Sannyas is not well defined. Its meaning is not static; it is redefined after short periods of time in the life of a Sannyasi. — Harshit Walia

These cause the ideas of renunciation and solitude to germinate in him? Was he, in the midst — Victor Hugo

involve self-denial or giving-up of something. Relinquishment or tyag is the real content of renunciation — J.M. Mehta

Renunciation is liberation. Not wanting is power. — Fernando Pessoa

The highest and greatest goal that every soul has to reach is God. As everything needs renunciation, that highest goal needs the highest renunciation. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

Without parlaying with the renunciation of the world, a person must establish a means to live in harmony with the uncertainties of a chaotic world. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Love determined God to the renunciation of his divinity. — Ludwig Feuerbach

O Lord, self-renunciation is not the work of one day, nor children's sport; yea, rather in this word is included all perfection. — Thomas A Kempis

Every choice has its obverse, that is to say a renunciation, and so there is no difference between the act of choosing and the act of renouncing — Italo Calvino

What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces. — Swami Vivekananda

Cling to the One who clings to nothing;
And so clinging, cease to cling. — Thiruvalluvar

True renunciation comes through acceptance of all that life offers. — Shuddhaanandaa Brahmachari

The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained. — Swami Vivekananda

Therefore by the example of Abram, entire self-renunciation is enjoined, that we may live and die to God alone. — John Calvin

Giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite. — Margaret Halsey

Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation. — Swami Vivekananda

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

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war. — Simone Weil

a starched collar affected him as a renunciation of freedom. — Jack London

Every choice is a renunciation. Indeed. Every choice is a thousand renunciations. To choose one thing is to turn one's back on many others. — Ronald Rolheiser

The secret of happiness is renunciation. — Andrew Carnegie

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

She had learned the lesson of renunciation and was as familiar with the wreck of each day's wishes as with the diurnal setting of the sun. — Thomas Hardy

What an unilateral life, when from the material of a renunciation, we must fashion something we love. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Perhaps it is meant to be hard. Perhaps there are some things so previous that one can only be tested when one is asked to give them up. — Sheri S. Tepper

There is no end to renunciation. — Swami Vivekananda

I dare predict that the influence of the Treaty of Renunciation of War will be felt in a large proportion of all future international acts. — Herbert Hoover

Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets. — Mahatma Gandhi

An act of renunciation is an act of union with God. The Divine Master looks lovingly upon a person who gains a victory over self. — Madeleine Sophie Barat

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct ... — Sigmund Freud

Globally, democracies have also acted in ways that suggest an outright renunciation of their principles at home. — Nayef Al-Rodhan

Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action. — Mahatma Gandhi

Renunciation which is natural does not herald its coming by the blowing of trumpets. It comes in imperceptibly without letting anyone notice it. — Mahatma Gandhi

The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark. — Cesare Pavese

Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy. — Albert Schweitzer

The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good. — A.J. Muste

That matchless remedy (for self realisation) is renunciation of fruits of action. — Mahatma Gandhi

Liberty in acceptance; peace in enclosure; happiness in renunciation. — Lauren Oliver

What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation. — Albert Camus

The peace within and flowing from sacred spaces and architecture places is clothed in forgiveness, renunciation, and reconciliation. — Norris Brock Johnson

Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally. — Ramakrishna

Each life has its share of heroism, an obscure heroism, born of abdication, of renunciation and acceptance under the merciless whip of fate. — Mariama Ba

Renunciation is in our blood. — Swami Vivekananda

... the more emphatic the renunciation, the less absolute its character. — Thomas Hardy

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis. — Swami Vivekananda

All excess, as well as renunciation, brings its own punishment. — Oscar Wilde

I find C major to be the key of strength, but also the key of regret. E major is the key of confidence. A-flat major is the key of renunciation. — Bob Dylan

Not by refraining from action does man attain freedom from action. Not by mere renunciation does he attain supreme perfection. — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

Renunciation of objects, without the renunciation of desires, is short-lived, however hard you may try. — Mahatma Gandhi

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 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

Asceticism is giving up selfish activities, as poets know, and the wise declare renunciation is giving up fruits of action. - Krishna. — Anonymous

Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister. — Mahatma Gandhi

Cultivate the art of renunciation. — Thomas Hardy

Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-. — Emily Dickinson

The price of civilization is instinctual renunciation. — Sigmund Freud

In the real journey of life, it is not what you do; it is what you don't do that matters the most. — Harshit Walia

No freedom without renunciation. — Swami Vivekananda

Renunciation doesn't mean giving up things externally but rather it means diligently pulling out the weeds from the heart. — Radhanath Swami

Renunciation means death of false ego. — Radhanath Swami

Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away. — Robert Baker Aitken

Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature unconsciously. — Swami Vivekananda

Only by renunciation of the desire to manipulate and control will the ego melt into the Universal Self of Infinite, Eternal Love. — Maharishi Sadasiva Isham

There is nothing so high as renunciation of self. — Swami Vivekananda

With renunciation life begins. — Amelia Barr

Renunciation, and renunciation alone, is the real secret, the Mulamantra, of all Realisation. — Swami Vivekananda

Desirelessness or renunciation does not come for the mere talking about it. — Mahatma Gandhi

How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation. — Hafez

Renunciation is of the mind. — Swami Vivekananda