Surrender Quotes - Page 28

• If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Letting Go, People, Forgiven

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• God requires you individually to come up to the point, to make an entire surrender. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

  Ellen G. White

  Come Up, Serving God

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles - Book I of IV”, p.1883, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I think we have to face right in the center of the hurricane, if you will, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s foibles and faults. I think that we do no good to ourselves and do no honor to him by pretending that he did not fail, that he did not wrestle greatly and, at times, surrender to his own sins and his own faults and failures.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Kings, Thinking, Honor

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• Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.

  Franz Kafka

  Writing, Diaries, Want

  Franz Kafka (1965). “The Diaries of Franz Kafka”

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• A big chunk of Western civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably enough, Islam figures: Hey, why not us?

  Mark Steyn

  Civilization, Islam, Dying

  Mark Steyn (2006). “America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It”, p.28, Regnery Publishing

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• We should not shed tears That is a surrender of the body to the heart It is only proof That we are beings that do not know What to do with out hearts

  Tite Kubo

  Heart, Tears, Bleach

  "Bleach". Manga series by Tite Kubo, August 20, 2001 – August 22, 2016.

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• There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power to act. We surrender to sleep, but in the way that the master entrusts himself to the slave who serves him.

  Maurice Blanchot

  Sleep, Insomnia, Secret

  Maurice Blanchot (2015). “The Space of Literature”, p.264, U of Nebraska Press

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• So that the one road for which we now need God's leadership most of all is a road God, in His own nature, has never walked. But suppose God became a man... He could surrender His will, suffer and die, because He was a man.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Suffering, Needs

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.60, HarperCollins UK

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• Our wise old church...has discovered that if you will act as if you believed belief will be given to you; if you pray with doubt, but pray with sincerity, your doubt will be dispelled; if you will surrender yourself to the beauty of that liturgy the power of which over the human spirit has been proved by the experience of the ages, peace will descend upon you.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Wise, Doubt, Age

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• It seems to me, that this, too, is how memory works. What we remember of what was done to us shapes our view, molds us, sets our stance. But what we remember is past, it no longer exists, and yet we hold on to it, live by it, surrender so much control to it. What do we become when we put down the scripts written by history and memory, when each person before us can be seen free of the cultural or personal narrative we've inherited or devised? When we, ourselves, can taste that freedom.

  Rebecca Walker

  Memories, Past, Views

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• ...I suddenly felt in myself all the weight of Europe: the weight of deliberate purpose in all our actions. I thought to myself, 'How difficult it is for us to attain to reality... We always try to grab it: but it does not like to be grabbed. Only where it overwhelms man does it surrender itself to him.

  Muhammad Asad

  Reality, Men, Europe

  Muhammad Asad (1954). “The Road To Mecca”, p.92, The Book Foundation

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• What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender.

  Terry Jones

  War, Circles, Political

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• God is life. God is life in action. The best way to say, "I love you, God," is to live your life doing your best. The best way to say, "Thank you, God," is by letting go of the past and living in the present moment, right here and now. Whatever life takes away from you, let it go. When you surrender and let go of the past, you allow yourself to be fully alive in the moment. Letting go of the past means you can enjoy the dream that is happening right now.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  God, Letting Go, Dream

  "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom". Book by Don Miguel Ruiz, 1997.

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• They say that these are not the best of times, but they're the only times I've ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own. Now I have seen that sad surrender in my lovers eyes...and I can only stand apart and sympathize...for we are only what our situations hand us...it's either sadness or euphoria.

  Billy Joel

  Believe, Sadness, Eye

  "Summer, Highland Falls". Song by Billy Joel, 1976.

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• Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Acceptance, Soul, Sanctuary

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2101, e-artnow

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• We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we surrender to terror and steep ourselves in it.

  Norman Mailer

  Years, World, Ugly

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• This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.

  Jack London

  Expression, Masters, Abandon

  Jack London, JACK LONDON (2015). “White Fang (Arcadia Classics)”, p.176, Jack London

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• Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I wasn't touched. I was fascinated. It was as though a veil had been rent. I saw on that ivory face the expression of sombre pride, of ruthless power, of craven terror--of an intense and hopeless despair. Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision--he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath: The horror! The horror!

  Joseph Conrad

  Struggle, Pride, Expression

  Heart of Darkness ch. 3 (1902)

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• Give me a shot to remember And you can take all the pain away from me A kiss and I will surrender The sharpest lives are the deadliest to lead A light to burn all the empires So bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be And I'm in love with all of those vampires So you can leave like the sane abandoned me

  Gerard Way

  Music, Pain, Kissing

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• She clenched her fist in his T-shirt, put her other arm around those too-broad, too-real shoulders. When he tried to pull away, she held on tight. Kami felt the surrender in his mind a moment before he laid his face in the curve of her neck. The whole world was so real it hurt. Kami whispered into Jared's hair, "I'm always on your side.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Hurt, Real, Curves

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)”, p.74, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Those who are truly enlightened, those whose souls are illuminated by love, have been able to overcome all of the inhibitions and preconceptions of their era. They have been able to sing, to laugh, and to pray out loud; they have danced and shared what Saint Paul called 'the madness of saintliness'. They have been joyful - because those who love conquer the world and have no fear of loss. True love is an act of total surrender.

  Paulo Coelho

  Loss, Love Is, Conquer The World

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• I surrender to it, and by surrendering, I control it.

  Robert Jordan

  Robert Jordan (2010). “The Shadow Rising: Book Four of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.144, Macmillan

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• Lovers never surrender to each other, lovers simply surrender to love.

  Rajneesh

  Lovers, Never Surrender, Surrender To Love

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• Travelling's not something you're good at. It's something you do. Like breathing. You can't work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.

  Gayle Forman

  Travel, Breathing, Too Much

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• Meditation is a surrender, it is not a demand. It is not forcing existence your way, it is relaxing into the way existence wants you to be. It is a let-go.

  Rajneesh

  Letting Go, Meditation, Demand

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