Renunciate Quotes & Sayings

The tragedy of power like mine is that there is no way down. There can only be extinction. Dust to dust; rags to rags; fear to fear. — V.S. Naipaul

There are places in my heart ... where no living soul ... has ... or can ever ... trespass. — Harold Pinter

I feel very strongly that all Japanese at that time had the idea drilled into them of 1999 being the end of the world. Aum renunciates have already accepted, inside themselves, the end of the world, because when they become a renunciate, they discard themselves totally, thereby abandoning the world. In other words, Aum is a collection of people who have accepted the end. People who continue to hold out hope for the near future still have an attachment to the world. If you have attachments, you will not discard your Self, but for Renunciates it's as if they've leaped right off the cliff. And taking a giant leap like that feels good. They lose something - but gain something in return. — Haruki Murakami

(On soft launches) It allows you to test your assumptions and see which ones you got right, and more, importantly, which ones you got wrong. A big hard launch is expensive. Getting even one thing wrong can force you to go out of business. — Kevin O'Leary

Love is pure and kind and forgiving. It is the greatest gift of all. — Emily Saliers

Anger makes us lash out at others, destroying relationships and revealing our true nature. The history of the human race is largely the history of its anger. — Billy Graham

They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add color and music to the staff of life. — E.L. Konigsburg

How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value. — Friedrich Nietzsche

In times of turbulence and rapid change, you must constantly be re-evaluating yourself relative to the new realities. — Brian Tracy

The truly efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure. — Henry David Thoreau

Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts. — Sophie Calle

You have to also provide a video for it, look a certain way and big hair ... If you're a woman it's even more strange with fake fingernails and corsets and all this stuff that was big in the 80s. — Ann Wilson

Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, you can hear them echoing forever within the second sphere. — J.M. Coetzee

There is more to the game than hitting it far. There are ways to make birdies other than hitting 350-yard drives. I pride myself on a good short game; I work very hard at it. — Luke Donald

Why see the world / when you got the beach? — Frank Ocean