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Seriousness is not Calvinistic, it's not a renunciation, it's the very opposite of that.
Leonard Cohen
2.
The price of civilization is instinctual renunciation.
Sigmund Freud
3.
The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.
Swami Vivekananda
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Everything is fraught with fear: Renunciation alone is fearless.
Swami Vivekananda
5.
As a parent you have to do some renunciation.
Robert Bly
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Highest love for God can never be achieved without renunciation.
Swami Vivekananda
11.
The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation.
Robert Bly
15.
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
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Desirelessness or renunciation does not come for the mere talking about it.
Mahatma Gandhi