Surrender Quotes - Page 31

• The will to power is the will to ecstasy is the will to surrender is the will to submit and, in extremis, to die. Or to put it another way, the rage to attain a freedom and happiness one's psyche cannot accept creates enormous anxiety and ends in self-punishing despair.

  Ellen Willis

  Self, Anxiety, Despair

  Review of "Terror and Liberalism" by Paul Berman, "Salon", March 25, 2003.

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• If Jesus is Lord then the only right response to him is surrender and obedience. He is Savior and he is Lord. We cannot separate his demands from his love. We cannot dissect Jesus and relate only to the parts that we like or need. Christ died so that we could be forgiven for managing our own lives. It would be impossible to thank Christ for dying and yet to continue running our own lives.

  Rebecca Pippert

  Running, Jesus, Dying

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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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• We can do without any article of luxury we have never had; but when once obtained, it is not in human natur' to surrender it voluntarily.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Luxury, Articles, Humans

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1840). “The Clockmaker: Or, The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville ...”, p.19

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• I am a patient man--always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance, and also to give ample time for repentance. Still, I must save this government, if possible. What I cannot do, of course I will not do, but it may as well be understood, once for all, that I shall not surrender this game leaving any available card unplayed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Christian, Men, Games

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.343, Wildside Press LLC

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• Whatever work you undertake, do it seriously, thoroughly and well; never leave it half-done or undone, never feel yourself satisfied unless and until you have given it your very best. Cultivate the habits of discipline and toleration. Surrender not the convictions you hold dear but learn to appreciate the points of view of your opponents.

  Syama Prasad Mukherjee

  Motivational, Work, Views

  Speech delivered at Scottish Church College, Kolkata, December 7, 1935.

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• Yes! live life with every fibre of one's being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.

  Emile Zola

  Life, Rebellion, Oneself

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• But in the morning Lust is always furtive. It dresses as mechanically as it undressed and heads straight for the door, to return to its own solitude. Like all the sins, it also makes us solitary. It is self-abdication at the very core of one's own being, a surrender of our need and ability to give and receive. Lust does not come with open hands, certainly not with an open heart. It comes only with open legs.

  Henry Fairlie

  Morning, Heart, Doors

  Henry Fairlie (2015). “The Seven Deadly Sins Today”, p.128, University of Notre Dame Pess

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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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• The freeway experience ... is the only secular communion Los Angeles has. Mere driving on the freeway is in no way the same as participating in it. Anyone can "drive" on the freeway, and many people with no vocation for it do, hesitating here and resisting there, losing the rhythm of the lane change, thinking about where they came from and where they are going. Actual participation requires total surrender, a concentration so intense as to seem a kind of narcosis, a rapture-of-the-freeway. The mind goes clean. The rhythm takes over.

  Joan Didion

  Thinking, People, Mind

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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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• 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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• 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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• If you hit somebody hard enough, they will give up. You can feel their body go limp and they'll just surrender. So every time I hit somebody, the goal is to knock myself out. I know that if I hit somebody hard enough that I can feel it, it's hurting them 10 times worse.

  Bob Sanders

  Hurt, Giving Up, Goal

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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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• Surrender is Beautiful.
  When we surrender
  Our Soul's beauty
  is reflected in Life's Stream.

  Bentinho

  Beautiful, Soul, Streams

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• The children themselves, before they get access to a car, are captives of their suburb, save for those families where the housewives surrender continuity in their own lives to chauffeur their children to lessons, doctors, and other services that could be reached via public transport in the city.

  David Riesman

  Children, Doctors, Cities

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.243, Transaction Publishers

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• That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender.

  Naz?m Hikmet

  Fall, Problem, Defeat

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• The Love-god inflames more fiercely those he sees are reluctant to surrender.

  Tibullus

  Love, God Love, Reluctant

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• When we love the stars light up, the wrong becomes undone. Naturally, my soul surrenders.

  Carrie Underwood

  Stars, Light, Soul

  Song: Inside Your Heaven, Album: Some Hearts, 2005

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• Evil is done in hopes that evil surrenders, but the deeds of the devil are burned too deep in the embers, and world of hunger in vengeance will always remember.

  Phil Ochs

  Forgiveness, Evil, Done

  Song: We Seek No Wider War

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• I'd be a fool to surrender, when I know I can be a contender. And if everyone's a contender, then everyone could be a winner.

  Coolio

  Inspirational, Fool, Winner

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• Say a prayer for the pretender, who started out so young and strong only to surrender.

  Jackson Browne

  Art, Strong, Prayer

  Song: The Pretender, Album: The Pretender, 1976

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