Thiruvalluvar Quotes

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

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.

Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.

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.

You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

My life is so full of sacrifices.

Not many of us are willing to give up everything we have.

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation.

No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.

Let go of everything. That is how you get everything; you let go of everything.

What i’m saying is, my friends, one ought to be able to let go. If a path does not please us, instead of insisting on going that specific way, of making our selfishness the guide, we ought to forsake. The books we cannot write, the films we cannot shoot, the projects we cannot develop, the jobs we cannot pursue and the people who no longer love us. Being able to let go, at times, is the most beautiful of all!

The only true immortality is when you don't care if you die. The moment you stop giving credence to gain is when you become invulnerable to pain.

Don’t worry about me handling the pain," I say. "I’ve had a lot of practice.

Winning gives birth to hostility Losing, one lies down in pain. The calmed lie down with ease, having set winning and losing aside.

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

No matter how many times I tell you this, you're still thinking, thinking, judging, judging, coming to conclusions, trying to work out your life. You have to let go. Totally, absolutely, completely. You have to let go so completely that you will feel no body, no mind, no pain, nothing.

If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

You don't give up the intention, and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the results.

Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit.

Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain

Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.

Never say about anything, "I have lost it," but only "I have given it back." Is your child dead? It has been given back. Is your wife dead? She has been returned.

Give up all hope, all illusion, all desire..I've tried. I've tried and still I desire, I still desire not to desire and hope to be without hope and have the illusion I can be without illusions..Give up, I say. Give up everything, including the desire to be saved.

... people loved to suffer, as long as the suffering made sense. Everybody suffered. The key was to choose the form of your suffering.