Renounce Quotes

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

It is easier to renounce worldly possessions than it is to renounce the love of them

A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something.

To renounce things is not to give them up. It is to acknowledge that all things go away.

Renounce all those material things that you gained by exploiting other human beings.

The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest.

We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.

The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.

When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the forefront.

I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies.

America, like all nations, has to renounce war.

Good fortune leads one to the highest glory, But to renounce it calls for equal courage.

One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.

The Bhakta (devotee) renounces all little loves for the almighty and omnipresent love.

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.

To be unattached is not to renounce the world. If you renounce the world you are attached to the world; otherwise why should you renounce it? What is the point in renouncing it if you are not attached to it? Only attachment renounces. If you are really non-attached there is no question of any renunciation.

Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.

A guy calls me a genius, and I'm going to renounce? I'm not going to renounce him.

Isn't strength the ability to renounce every lie in your heart?

In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love.

That which you cannot express is Love. That which you cannot reject/renounce is Beauty. That which you cannot avoid is the Truth.

We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.

The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.

We can't experience all that Heaven has to offer until we renounce all that the world offers in its place.

None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.