Surrender Quotes - Page 25

• Your soul is a seeker, lover and artist; shape-shifting through archetypal energy, between your darkness and fields of light, your body and spirit, your heaven and hell, until you land in the moment of sweet surrender; when you, as a dancer, disappear into the dance.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Sweet, Artist, Light

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• History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer who does not remember the past will find himself condemned to repeat it.

  John Buchan

  Past, Giving, Darkness

  John Buchan (1923). “Great Britain: The Nations of To-day : a New History of the World”

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• Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness.

  Esther Perel

  Two, Needs, Pillars

  Esther Perel (2009). “Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• Faithfulness to the moment and to the present circumstance entails continuous surrender.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Moments, Faithfulness, Circumstances

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.21, Penguin

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• At the level of spirit,
  everything is always unfolding perfectly, and you don’t have to struggle or
  force situations to go your way. It is only your ego mind that is fearful. When you surrender to spirit and listen to the voice of your deeper
  intelligence, you free yourself from fear and release the obstacles your ego has created.

  Deepak Chopra

  Struggle, Voice, Ego

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• You've always got to remember, rock and roll's never been about giving up. For me, for a lot of kids, it was a totally positive force... not optimistic all the time, but positive. It was never--never--a bout surrender.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Giving Up, Optimistic, Kids

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• Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love.

  Robbie Fowler

  Christmas, Summer, Children

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• Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real food for a poet: other poems, not meat loaf.

  Mark Strand

  Real, Giving, Meat

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• To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Rights, Humanity

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.95, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• There is no word in our language which has been so much misused and prostituted as the word love. It has been preached by those who were ready to condone every cruelty if it served their purpose; it has been used as a disguise under which to force people into sacrificing their own happiness, into submitting their whole self to those who profited from this surrender. [...] It has been made so empty that for many people love may mean no more than that two people have lived together for twenty years just without fighting more often than once a week.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Mean, Sacrifice

  Erich Fromm (1997). “Love, Sexuality, and Matriarchy: About Gender”, Fromm International

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• If you don't surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Christian, Prayer, Religion

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• The EKC or Holy Spirit, can lift the most common beginning to the highest good. Yet to secceed, we must surrender our little self to achieve divine love.

  Harold Klemp

  Self, Littles, Spirit

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• Last of all will come self-surrender. Then we shall be able to give ourselves up to the Mother. If misery comes, welcome; if happiness comes, welcome. Then, when we come up to this love, all crooked things shall be straight. There will be the same sight for the Brahmin, the Pariah, and the dog. Until we love the universe with samesightedness, with impartial, undying love, we are missing again and again. But then all will have vanished, and we shall see in all the same infinite eternal Mother.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Dog, Sight

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2644, Manonmani Publishers

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• Creativity can replace conformity as the primary mode of social being. . . . We can cling to that which is passing, or has already passed, or we can remain accessible to-even surrender to-the creative process, without insisting that we know in advance the ultimate outcome for us, our institutions, or our planet. To accept this challenge is to cherish freedom, to embrace life, and to find meaning.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Art, Creativity, Creative

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• In landing operations, retreat is impossible, to surrender is as ignoble as it is foolish. above all else remember that we as attackers have the initiative, we know exactly what we are going to do, while the enemy is ignorant of our intentions and can only parry our blows. We must retain this tremendous advantage by always attacking rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, and without rest.

  George S. Patton

  War, Blow, Ignorant

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• Each decision - to kill, to sign a petition, to write a letter, to make a speech, to attack, to lie, to surrender - was made at some point in somebody's day.

  Nicholson Baker

  Lying, Writing, Decision

  "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008.

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• Education has to endow you with an eagerness to surrender.

  Sai Baba

  Educational, Eagerness

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• I wanted to die; I wanted to surrender because I saw no sense in struggling. I felt that nothing would be proved, substantiated, added or subtracted by continuing an existence which I had not asked for.

  Henry Miller

  Crazy, Struggle, Mad

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would.

  John Adams

  Life, Nature, Gun

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.438

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• To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another

  David Lodge

  Curiosity, Desire, Endless

  David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.240, Penguin

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• Life, as we all know, is conflict, and man, being part of life, is himself an expression of conflict. If he recognizes the fact and accepts it, he is apt, despite the conflict, to know peace and to enjoy it. But to arrive at this end, which is only a beginning (for we haven’t begun to live yet!), a man has got to learn the doctrine of acceptance, that is, of unconditional surrender, which is love.

  Henry Miller

  Acceptance, Men, Expression

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.254, New Directions Publishing

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• Will America lead...and reap the rewards? Or will we surrender that advantage to other countries with clearer vision?

  Susan Hockfield

  Country, Math, Science

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• The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

  Lord Acton

  Country, Men, Ethos

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.276, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It is the Holy Ghost in us that is everything, and the Father is willing to bestow Him upon the weakest if he will only ask in the spirit of implicit faith and entire self-surrender. My cry these days is for a Pentecost, first on myself and my missionary brethren, and then on the native Church, and then on the heathen at large.

  Griffith John

  Father, Self, Church

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• Redemption is promised at the low price of surrender of your critical faculties.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religion, Redemption, Lows

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