Austere Quotes

You may practice chanting, penance and austere self-discipline within your mind, but without the Name, life is useless. - Sri Guru Granth Sahib

Without the True Guru, understanding is not obtained. Meditation, penance and austere self-discipline are found by surrendering to the True Guru's Will. - Sri Guru Granth Sahib

Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull. - C Northcote Parkinson

When chanting, austere meditation and self-discipline become your protectors, then the lotus blossoms forth, and the honey trickles out. - Sri Guru Granth Sahib

What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into the auditorium an image of their affluence. - Jonathan Miller

We found the austere conditions. - Don Alexander

Too austere a philosophy makes few wise men; too rigorous politics, few good subjects; too hard a religion, few persons whose devotion is of long continuance. - Charles De Saint-Evremond

This number combined with the other high numbers is going to force the government to keep interest rates high and make sure the budget is austere for the next year. High rates are bad news for equity holders. - Damian Fraser

This is definitely an austere show. The weight and scale come across, which are the crux of his work. - Michele Quinn