renunciation

is less difficult than people believe: It's all a matter of getting started. Once on has succeeded in dispensing with something one thought essential, one realizes that one can also do without something else, then without many other things.

Renouncing things is less difficult than people believe: it's all a matter of getting started. Once you've succeeded in dispensing with something you thought essential, you realize you can also do without something else, then without many other things. Italo Calvino

Renunciation is submission to time. Simone Weil

is at wonrk in every choice, for every choice has its obverse, its renunciation. Thus, there is no difference between the act of choosing and the act of renouncing.

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

is the only way to possess anything... what we do not renounce escapes from us.

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

is, in fact, concealed affirmation in that, the man of renunciation, in throwing away much that would encumber his flight, including not a little that he esteems and likes, he strives for a higher world.

The man of renunciation: What does the man of renunciation do' He strives for a higher world. he wants to fly further and higher than all men of affirmation-he throws away much that would encumber his flight, including not a little that he esteems and likes... he sacrifices it to his desire for the heights. This sacrificing, this throwing way, however, is precisely what alone becomes visible and leads people to call him the man of renunciation: it is as such that he confronts us, shrouded in his hood, as if he were the soul of a hairshirt. But he is quite satisfied with the impression he makes on us: he wants to conceal from us his desire. his pride. his intention to soar beyond us. -Yes. he is cleverer than we thought and so polite to usthis man of affirmation. For that is what he is, no less than we. even in his renunciation.

is the act of giving up your seat in a street-car to a pretty woman, and then purposely stepping on an old man's toes.

is not prompted by denial but assertion. The iconoclast is often more idolatrous than the idol worshiper.

The fervor which prompts us to renounce and destroy is not one of denial but of assertion. The iconoclast is often more idolatrous than the idol worshiper.

is easy till one sees who picks up what the world that you've been renounced.

it's easy to renounce the world till you see who picks up what you renounced.

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renunciation