Leonard Cohen
Singer-Songwriter
"Seriousness is not Calvinistic, it's not a renunciation, it's the very opposite of that."
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Renunciation
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Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"The price of civilization is instinctual renunciation."
Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained."
Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"Everything is fraught with fear: Renunciation alone is fearless."
Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"There is nothing so high as renunciation of self."
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"Highest love for God can never be achieved without renunciation."
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"Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands."
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"Renunciation is in our blood."
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"There is no end to renunciation."
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"Renunciation is of the mind."
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"No freedom without renunciation."
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"Renunciation means death of false ego."
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"Renunciation means that none can serve both God and Mammon."
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"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"
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"Renunciation is submission to time."
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"Renunciation is everyone's prerogative."
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"Desirelessness or renunciation does not come for the mere talking about it."
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