12 Metaphors for renunciation

Shrewd lawgivers have taught men to conceal their natural passions and to limit them by artificial ones, persuading them that renunciation is true happiness, on the ground that through it we attain the supreme goodreputation among, and the esteem of our fellows.

Article XIV.Spain may establish consular agents in the ports and places of the territories whose renunciation or cession are the object of this treaty.

"Renunciation, the abandonment of the outer for the sake of securing the inner, is the condition for attaining highest development.

The renunciation of self is the way of Truth, therefore, "Enter the Path; there is no grief like hate, No pain like passion, no deceit like sense; Enter the Path; far hath he gone whose foot Treads down one fond offense.

Renunciation of all things earthly was the only theme, the only word of that day.

Pandit Motilal Nehru's great renunciation of a legal practice which was probably second to nobody's is by itself an event calculated to change ridicule into respect.

In living for humanity, her sorrows were turned into strength, and her renunciation became a religion.

He had fondly believed that he was a neophyte in their ways, a novice in their charming faith and indolent creed, and they had encouraged it; now their renunciation of that faith could only be an excuse for a renunciation of him.

The able editor of Hindu, Mr. Kastariranga Iyengar, and almost every journalist in the country are agreed that the renunciation of titles is a necessary and a desirable step.

She had not perceivedhow could she until she had lived longer?the inmost truth of the old monk's outpourings, that renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

Self-renunciation, without which no life-enigma can be solved, was the keynote of the Loyalty of man as well as of the Domesticity of woman.

The only self-renunciation which it applauds, is devotion to the happiness, or to some of the means of happiness, of others; either of mankind collectively, or of individuals within the limits imposed by the collective interests of mankind.

12 Metaphors for  renunciation