Surrender Quotes - Page 39

• A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.

  David Seabury

  Wise, Best Wishes, Selfishness

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• Enthusiasm is not an emotional state. It is a spiritual commitment, a loving surrender to our creative process. Enthusiasm - from the Greek, filled with God - is an ongoing energy supply tapped into the flow of life itself.

  Julia Cameron

  Spiritual, Commitment, Emotional

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.156, Penguin

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• ... so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being that has known how to touch it. That being is not selected; it is recognised and obeyed.

  George Santayana

  Love, Heart, Known

  "The Philosophy of Santayana: Selections from All the Works of George Santayana".

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• I ask no favors for my sex, I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on the ground which God has designed us to occupy.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Sex, Feet, Justice

  Sarah Moore Grimké, Mary S. Parker (1838). “Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker”, p.10

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• We have not come here to take prisoners But to surrender ever more deeply To freedom and joy.

  Hafez

  Spiritual, Joy, Prisoner

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• Surrender is the most difficult thing in the world while you are doing it and the easiest when it is done.

  Bhai Sahib Singh

  Spiritual, Done, World

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• Jesus wanted far more than to be accepted into one's life.  He wanted to take over, and his essential call was to trust him enough to surrender one's entire being to him.

  Scot McKnight

  Jesus, Essentials, Enough

  Scot McKnight (2010). “One.Life: Jesus Calls, We Follow”, p.24, Zondervan

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• True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.

  Adyashanti

  Prayer, Goal, Meditation

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• A: Snowden has enough information to cause more damage to the US government in a minute alone than anyone else has ever had in the history of the United States. But that's not his goal. [His] objective is to expose software that people around the world use without knowing what they are exposing themselves without consciously agreeing to surrender their rights to privacy. [He] has a huge number of documents that would be very harmful to the US government if they were made public.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Rights, Government, Numbers

  "About the Reuters article" by Glenn Greenwald, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2013.

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• A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.

  Wally Lamb

  Needs, Dignity

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• Having a body that is like a musical instrument, open enough to be able to resonate, literally resonate with what is coming both from the inside and from the outside, so that one is able to surrender to powers greater than oneself.

  Marion Woodman

  Musical, Body, Able

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• In every work out there comes a moment where you have to decide to keep pushing hard - through the doubt, discomfort and fear of the pain. You have two choices at this point - to push through and to mentally divorce your mind of the doubt, discomfort and fear or you can surrender.

  Lisa Rainsberger

  Pain, Divorce, Two

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• The power of the state is measured by the power that men surrender to it.

  Felix Morley

  Men, Tyrants, States

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• I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Father, Imagination, World

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• My code of life and my personal bushido is honour, respect, loyalty, courage and surrender.

  Rickson Gracie

  Loyalty, Art, Mma

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• Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible, by faith in the omnipotence, fidelity, and wisdom of the Almighty Saviour Who gave the command. Is there a wall in our path? By our God we will leap over it! Are there lions and scorpions in our way? We will trample them under our feet! Does a mountain bar our progress? Saying, 'Be thou cast into the sea,' we will march on. Soldiers of Jesus! Never surrender!

  Charles Studd

  Jesus, Wall, Sea

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• Become more accepting. With every interaction, surrender any tendency to judge another person. Pray for a more accepting heart.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Forgiveness

  "Marianne Williamson: 10 Ways To Stay Spiritually Connected" By Marianne Williamson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2013.

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• Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess.

  Thomas Merton

  Giving Up, Self, Doe

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.33, Macmillan

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• For an individual as well as a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily. To fight in a battle and live in glory is one mode. To beat a retreat, to surrender and to live the life of a captive is also a mode of survival.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Inspirational, Life, Fighting

  Dr B.R. Ambedkar (2014). “Annihilation of Caste”, p.77, Ssoft Group, INDIA

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• Faith can have a profound impact on health. It is a very personal experience of thought and surrender, which can comfort in every situation. Faith is free and available to all people at all times. It only requires that one fully embrace possibility, and the ultimate value is in the depth of the embrace.

  Patch Adams

  Faith, Impact, People

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• Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Expression, Genuine

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Mature love is not a surrender of the self but a surrender to the self. The ego surrenders its hegemony of the personality to the heart, but in this surrender it is not annihilated. Rather it is strengthened because its roots in the body are nourished by the joy that the body feels.

  Alexander Lowen

  Heart, Love Is, Roots

  Alexander Lowen (1995). “Joy: The Surrender to the Body and to Life”, p.112, Penguin

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• Surrender the dream and the truth will be revealed.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Dream

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• Hoary idea, in any case, expecting a woman to surrender her name to her husband's in exchange for his. Why? Would any man submerge his identity and heritage to the woman he wed?

  Marya Mannes

  Husband, Men, Names

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• God won't permit temptation beyond your strength. It is true that temptations come to all, but God will give you the graces you need to withstand them, if you ask him to and if you are willing to cooperate with his grace...In God's presence, consider: Do I put up a fight when temptations beset me, or do I give up quickly and surrender myself to them without a struggle? Do I rely on God's grace to conquer temptations, or am I conquered by them?

  Patrick Madrid

  Giving Up, Struggle, Fighting

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