Renunciations Quotes

#1. It is a grave misconception to regard the mystical progress as passing mostly through ecstasies and raptures. On the contrary, it passes just as much through broken hearts and bruised emotions, through painful sacrifices and melancholy renunciations.

Paul Brunton

#2. Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#3. Loving for their mere artificiality those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call sin.

Oscar Wilde

#4. ...I told myself that, after all, life was like that for most of us - the small unpleasantness rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather than the great renunciations and dramatic love affairs of history or fiction.

Barbara Pym

#5. Every choice is a renunciation. Indeed. Every choice is a thousand renunciations. To choose one thing is to turn one's back on many others.

Ronald Rolheiser

#6. A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations of the day.

Rose Macaulay

#7. I've never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself.

D.H. Lawrence

#8. Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect.

Francis Parkman

#9. If you were a young kid, 19, 20 years old who has two children and a third one on the way and refuses to leave them. A kid who was on welfare, because he refused to steal anybody's property or take anybody's money. You found life a lot tougher.

Barry White

#10. When I say drop your pants and show me the moon, I'm not just whistling Dixie!

George W. Bush

#11. Regardless of what you plan on when you fall in love, significant others come and go in your life. Your friends are it. My friends are my everything.

Sophia Bush

#12. It is unfortunate when final decisions are made by chieftains headquartered miles away from the front, where they can only guess at conditions and potentialities known only to the captain of the battlefield.

Attila The Hun

#13. I don't think you can get an idea of what Israel is like until you get here. People don't realize what a great place it is.

Paul Anka

#14. It's a question of trying to take down by dictation what's already there. I'm not making something, I'm trying to hear it.

Alice Oswald

#15. When you get older, it's not about what you did that you regret, it's what you didn't do.

Grace Slick

#16. God could give me no greater token of his love for me than you.

Julie Berry

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