Quotes of Renunciation - somelinesforyou

“ There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness. ”

- Dalai Lama

“ It seems that nothing ever gets to going good till there's a few resignations. ”

- Kin Hubbard

“ Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy. - Out of My Life and Thoughts. ”

- Albert Schweitzer

“ That's best Which God sends. 'Twas His will: it is mine. ”

- Owen Meredith

“ I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course. ”

- Richard Milhous Nixon

“ I think all great innovations are built on rejections. ”

- Louis Ferdinand Celine

“ I think all great innovations are built on rejections. ”

- Louise Nevelson

“ It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct. ”

- Sigmund Freud

“ To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art. ”

- Anthony Burgess

“ With renunciation life begins. ”

- Amelia E. Barr

“ The secret of happiness is renunciation. ”

- Andrew Carnegie

“ Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly. ”

- George Eliot

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

- Simone Weil

“ Courage is a moral quality; it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit; an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will… ”

- Lord Moran

“ A sannyasi is one who does not possess anything, not even the clothes on his back. He has renounced all. This is the real renunciation which is demanded… A sannyasi is one who is totally detached from the world and from himself. ”

- Bede Griffiths
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