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• Listening to something is an act of surrender.

  Brian Eno

  Listening

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• Things do fall apart. It is in their nature to do so. When we try to protect ourselves from the inevitability of change, we are not listening to the soul. We are listening to our fear of life and death, our lack of faith, our smaller ego's will to prevail. To listen to the soul is to stop fighting with life-to stop fighting when things fall apart, when they don't go our way, when we get sick, when we are betrayed or mistreated or misunderstood. To listen to the soul is to slow down, to feel deeply, to see ourselves clearly, to surrender to discomfort and uncertainty, and to wait.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Fall, Fighting, Life And Death

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• Letting go of someone we love is the hardest thing we will ever do. Some people never surrender to love for the fear of being hurt. But to not have loved, to not have felt the immense joy it brings, would have been a far worse kind of death.

  Goldie Hawn

  Letting Go, Hurt, Love Is

  Goldie Hawn (2005). “A Lotus Grows in the Mud”, Putnam Adult

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• Hurry not a woman's favor; neither forcer her hastily to surrender to thee. For she goeth into love as she goeth into the waters at the seashore; first a hand and then a lip goeth she in by littles. She diveth not, she leapeth not from the pier; but by gentle shocks and cries of protest she entereth slowly; yet when the waters of love encompass her, then she is supported. She swimmeth in her joy; she floateth on the tide of happiness.

  Gelett Burgess

  Love, Women, Hands

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• There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance implies only ignorance that may someday be conquered. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

  Isaac Asimov

  Ignorance, May, Today

  "The 'Threat' Of Creationism" by Isaac Asimov, www.nytimes.com. June 14, 1981.

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• Faith is not a contract. Faith is surrender. If no other relationship in our experience is one of self-surrender, if it's all contractual, people won't know how to believe.

  Francis George

  Believe, Self, People

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• The biggest straitjacket is all the prejudices that we carry around, and all the fears. But what if we just surrender to the fear? There are things greater than fear. The great, wonderful quality of human beings is that we can overcome even absolute terror, and we do.

  Isabel Allende

  What If, Quality, Overcoming

  Isabel Allende, John Rodden (1999). “Conversations with Isabel Allende”, Univ of Texas Pr

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• The only way to the Place beyond Fear is to do the thing you fear most. This is how to surrender to your best destiny.

  Martha Beck

  Destiny, Way

  Martha Beck (2009). “Steering by Starlight: The Science and Magic of Finding Your Destiny”, p.93, Rodale

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• In a real sense faith is total surrender to God .

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Faith, Real, Faith In God

  "The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr". Book by Martin Luther King, Jr., p. 552, 2007.

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• I want to surrender to the feelings and shapes of words and not stop until I am clearly heard by myself and my God.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Communication, Feelings, Shapes

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• I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.

  Jose Marti

  Silence, World, Flow

  Jose Marti (2002). “Selected Writings”, p.275, Penguin

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• I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

  Martin Buber

  Book, Doors, Faces

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• The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a simple datum of experience.

  Albert Einstein

  Simple, Data, Goal

  "On the Method of Theoretical Physics". The Herbert Spencer Lecture, delivered at Oxford, June 10, 1933.

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• My life is on loan, like money borrowed from a bank. God is the lender, and He retains the right to call in the loan any time. Though I am responsible for taking care of it, I do not own this life; it is borrowed. Why should I fear its loss or the loss of anything else in this world when I must surrender it all anyway?

  James Dillehay

  Loss, World, Care

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• Strength is found in weakness. Control is found in dependency. Power is found in surrender.

  Dan B. Allender

  Weakness, Found, Dependency

  Dan B. Allender, Tremper Longman III (2009). “Breaking the Idols of Your Heart: How to Navigate the Temptations of Life”, p.38, InterVarsity Press

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• Never surrender to cynicism, even if you suspect it would get the critics on your side.Never surrender to cynicism, even if you suspect it would get the critics on your side.

  Roselyne Bosch

  Your Side, Sides, Cynicism

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Prayer implies surrender to the will of the giver, demand preconceives a right to receive. Pray, my dear, and you shall receive.

  Zeina

  Prayer, Demand, Praying

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• A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts.

  Douglas Wilson

  Men, Conquer, Plant

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• To survive you must surrender without giving in, that is to say, fully accept the reality in all its horror and never give up the will to survive. That allows you to quickly adapt to the situation and dedicate yourself to the present moment rather than wallow in denial.

  Laurence Gonzales

  Giving Up, Reality, Will To Survive

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• Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." The real fear should be of the opposite course.

  Gail Sheehy

  Giving Up, Real, Mean

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• Any praise I receive does not change me, for I pass it right along to God. I walk because God gives me strength to walk, I live because God gives me the supply to live, I speak because God gives me the words to speak. All I did was to surrender my will to God's will. My entire life has prepared me for this undertaking. This is my calling. This is my vocation. This is what I must be doing. I could not be happy doing anything else.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Giving, Doe, Calling

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.127, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Young people need compassion and guidance, not obscure mysticism. Here are some guidelines for young people: Remember that you are always your own person. Do not surrender your mind, heart, or body to any person. Never compromise your dignity for any reason. Maintain your health with sound diet, hygiene, exercise, and clean living. Don’t engage in drugs or drinking. Money is never more important than your body and mind, but you must work and support yourself. Never depend on others for your livelihood.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Drinking, Heart, Exercise

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• Freedom cannot be trifled with. You cannot surrender it for security unless in a state of war, and then you must guard carefully the methods of so doing.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  War, States, Method

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• Surrender is learning to get out of the way of what wants to happen naturally.

  Penney Peirce

  Want, Way, Happens

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• The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Compassion, Gaps, Regions

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.140, Faber & Faber

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