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• He knows what He is doing with me. I cannot always understand His way, but I am content in the realization that He knows what is best. That is surrender.

  Daya Mata

  God, Faith, Realization

  Daya Mata (1976). “Only Love”, Self Realization Fellowship Pub

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• The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Men, Selfishness

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.10, Penguin

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• He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.

  Oscar Wilde

  Morning, Stars, Romantic Love

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• Surrender doesn't obstruct power; it enhances it.

  Marianne Williamson

  Acceptance

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• Being free brings a lightness, a carefree surrender to all that is happening around you, and, above all, an acceptance of reality.

  Deepak Chopra

  Freedom, Acceptance, Reality

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• To be defeated and yet not surrender, this is victory.

  Jozef Pilsudski

  Victory, Defeated

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• Meditation is not a technique to master;
  it is the highest form of prayer,
  a naked act of love and effortless surrender
  into the silent abyss beyond all knowing

  Adyashanti

  Prayer, Knowing, Meditation

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• Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer; there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.

  George Santayana

  Long, Lasts, Firsts

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Scepticism and animal faith. Some meanings of the word "is". Literal and symbolic knowledge. The unknowable”

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• Things don't spiral out of control when we surrender them; they spiral out of control when we try to control them!

  Marianne Williamson

  Trying, Spirals

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 14, 2012

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• You surrender to love; you do not accomplish love by willpower.

  Richard Rohr

  Love You, Willpower, Accomplish

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• Guilty she might be. But what human being was not? There were things in her past she needn't be ashamed of, things to be proud of; she wouldn't surrender so meekly to a condemning judgment.

  John Jakes

  Past, Proud, Might

  John Jakes (2012). “The Furies”, p.584, Open Road Media

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• Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke.

  Marianne Williamson

  Happiness, Giving Up, Attachment

  Marianne Williamson (1994). “Illuminata: A Return to Prayer”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• Surrender happens by Grace. All we're doing is cleaning up the room so when Surrender walks in, He can sit down.

  Krishna Das

  Grace, Rooms, Cleaning

  Twitter post from Sep 25, 2013

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• At its edges, a painting makes its surrender to reality. The ways in which it can do so are endlessly revealing, as infinite as the potential forms of painting itself.

  Andrew Graham-Dixon

  Reality, Way, Painting

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• To be a disciple means forsaking everything to follow Jesus, unconditionally, putting our lives completely in His hands. When we say that we want to be His disciple, yet attach a list of conditions, Jesus refuses to accept our terms. His terms involve unconditional surrender.

  Richard Stearns

  Jesus, Mean, Hands

  Richard Stearns (2014). “Stearns 2 in 1: The Hole in Our Gospel and Unfinished”, p.39, Harper Collins

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• French troops arrived in Afghanistan last week, and not a minute too soon. The French are acting as advisers to the Taliban, to teach them how to surrender properly.

  Jay Leno

  Acting, Troops, Lasts

  "The Tonight Show", November 26, 2004.

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• The ethical regime [of the Jews] was quite definitely Ptolemaic, revolving around the small group of Jews, not the larger Gentile group and, accordingly, they learned to remain unimpressed by Gentile temporal power. Being unimpressed did not mean being unafraid material power might beat or starve one to death; it did mean refusing to surrender moral hegemony to the majority merely because it had power.

  David Riesman

  Mean, Might, Majority

  "Individualism Reconsidered". Book by David Riesman, 1954.

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• The frustrated follow a leader less because of their faith that he is leading them to a promised land than because of their immediate feeling that he is leading them away from their unwanted selves. Surrender to a leader is not a means to an end but a fulfillment. Whither they are led is of secondary importance.

  Eric Hoffer

  Mean, Self, Land

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• It's true that all the men you knew were dealers who said they were through with dealing Every time you gave them shelter. I know that kind of man It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.

  Leonard Cohen

  Men, Hands, Sky

  Song: The Stranger Song, 1967

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• Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse.

  Laura Riding

  Musical, Poetic, Fit

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• Surrender, but don’t give yourself away.

  Rick Nielsen

  Giving

  "'Surrender' shows why Cheap Trick still rocks today" by Gwen Ihnat, www.avclub.com. February 25, 2015.

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• ...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels more surely where the shoe pinches...Physical conceptions are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Shoes, Mind

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• Here’s a secret intel bulletin for all y’all who’ve never left Yoknapatawpha County and imagine the United States is constantly on the precipice of enemy invasion—the only way this country is ever going to surrender its liberty to a foreign power is if it keeps electing corrupt officials who auction it away to multinational corporations and overseas government interests in exactly the fashion that southern star chambers have been doing to their own people throughout their entire dyspeptic history.

  Chuck Thompson

  Country, Fashion, Stars

  Chuck Thompson (2013). “Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Nobody is fit to rule anybody else. It is not alleged that Mankind is perfect, or that merely through his/her natural goodness (or lack of same) he/she should (or should not) be permitted to rule. Rule as such causes abuse. There are no superpeople nor privileged classes who are above 'imperfect Mankind' and are capable or entitled to rule the rest of us. Submission to slavery means surrender of life.

  Albert Meltzer

  Mean, Class, Perfect

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• This human need for mysticism – surrender to an unknown truth, union – stands at the helm of all romantic feeling. It is, in essence, the same intimacy known in a mother’s arms; in those who are deprived of the experience, the need freezes and, distorted, it can rent a life. All addiction has as its foundation skewed yearning for the same transcendence. For me, the spell of the material was broken by my brother’s death; after his suicide, all I wanted was the renewal of my connection to the intangible.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Mother, Suicide, Brother

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