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Tag Name "Renunciation" (93)

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With renunciation life begins.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.
Eric Hoffer
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Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate.
George Eliot
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In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all spiritual culture - renunciation. This is religion - renunciation.
Swami Vivekananda
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Industry, technology, and commerce can thrive only as long as an idealistic national community offers the necessary preconditions. And these do not lie in material egoism, but in a spirit of sacrifice and joyful renunciation.
Adolf Hitler
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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
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Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away.
Robert Baker Aitken
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According to the letter of the Gita, it is possible to say that warfare is consistent with renunciation of fruit.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Renunciation is everyone's prerogative.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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
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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
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We need a total renunciation of war. We must renounce war totally, because now we can destroy all life on earth.
Benjamin Creme
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Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.
Albert Schweitzer
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To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea.
Swami Vivekananda
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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
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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
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What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words, renunciation is making yourself more available, more gentle and open to others.
Chogyam Trungpa
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Highest love for God can never be achieved without renunciation.
Swami Vivekananda
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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
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It is only when we begin to relax with ourselves that meditation becomes a transformative process. Only when we relate with ourselves without moralizing, without harshness, without deception, can we let go of harmful patterns. Without maitri (metta), renunciation of old habits becomes abusive. This is an important point.
Pema Chodron
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Each and every object in Nature teaches us something. Renunciation and selflessness are the greatest lessons to learn from Nature.
Mata Amritanandamayi
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States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between states is also like peace between people. It involves the willing renunciation of purpose, in the mutual desire not to do, but to be.
Roger Scruton
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Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands.
Swami Vivekananda
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