Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

You get everything you could have ever wished for if you're willing to give that eternal bliss away to somebody else, to give it back.

In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all spiritual culture - renunciation. This is religion - renunciation.

Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.

All desires and egoism will have to be banished from the being.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.

Tremendous purity, tremendous renunciation, is the one secret of spirituality. “Neither through wealth, nor through progeny, but through renunciation alone is immortality to be reached,” say the Vedas. “Sell all that thou hast and give to poor, and follow me,” says the Christ. So all great saints and prophets have expressed it, and have carried it out in their lives. How can great spirituality come without renunciation?

When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a lotus leaf.

Our generosity is measured not by what we give but by what we keep.

This world is nothing. It is at best only a hideous caricature, a shadow of the Real. We must go to the Real. Renunciation will take us to It. Renunciation is the very basis of our true life; every moment of goodness and real life that we enjoy is when we do not think of ourselves.

The main cause of suffering is egoistic desire for one's own comfort and happiness.

Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action.

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

True renunciation can be attained by anyone - whether a millionaire, parent, student, politician, farmer or engineer. It's not what you have or don't have; it's your state of consciousness. In essence, it means that true peace that comes from true renunciation arrives when we understand that nothing is mine. Whatever intelligence I have, whatever abilities I have, whatever family members I have, whatever wealth or property I have, is the sacred property of God or the Divine.

Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus with thy hand!

God doesn't look at just what we give. He also looks at what we keep.

Instant enlightenment is to give all your happiness away to others.

If you want to be given everything, give everything up.

He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the result.

Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit.

The disciple of Jesus gives up all he has, all his goods, because he has found in him the greatest Good from which every other good receives its full value and meaning: family bonds, other relationships, work, cultural and economic goods and so on... The Christian detaches himself from everything and rediscovers all of it in the logic of the Gospel, the logic of love and service.