Quotes About Surrender

For to love persons is to have died to the need for persons and to be utterly alone.

if you just suppress your desire, and you attempt to renounce the object of your desire, you are likely to be tied to it.

Your attitude should be: "I want to be aware, I want to be in touch with whatever is and let whatever happens happen; if I'm awake, fine, and if I'm asleep, fine.

You don't have to do anything to acquire happiness. The great Meister Eckhart said very beautifully, "God is not attained by a process of addition to anything in the soul, but by a process of subtraction." You don't do anything to be free, you drop something. Then you're free.

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you are giving it power. You give it as much power as you are using to fight it.

H?nh phúc là má»™t tình tr?ng gá»™i s?ch ?o t??ng, là sá»± d?t b? ?o t??ng.

Ng??i ta không ??t ??n Thiên Chúa b?ng vi?c b? sung thêm cái gì vào linh h?n, nhÆ°ng là b?ng vi?c bá»›t Ä'i. ?? ???c tá»± do, b?n không c?n làm cái gì c?, b?n ch? c?n b? Ä'i má»™t cái gì Ä'ó thôi. Và b?n ???c tá»± do.

As long as you're fighting it, you are giving it power. You give it as much power as you are using to fight it.

They sleep despite noise, despite cold, despite hunger, as though desperate to stay removed from the waking world for as long as possible.

Posters go up in the market, on tree trunks in the Place Chateaubriand. Voluntary surrender of firearms. Anyone who does not cooperate will be shot.

O take me, take me up into the ranks so that I do not die a common death! I do not want to die in vain, what I want is to fall on the sacrificial mound.

What you realize, ultimately, when you have nothing to lose, is that even though the world can be kind to you, and reveal its beauty through the thin cracks in everything, in the end it will either take you or leave you.

You must learn to let go. Believe me, it's not easy. But you must let whatever will happen, happen

Bowing to this reality, the dying man handed Agrippa the symbol of his authority:

I once asked a Jesuit preist what was the best short prayer he knew. He said "Fuck it." as in "Fuck it, it's in Gods hands.

futility of making plans. Life had its own agenda.

Don't be sorry. Our lives don't belong to us, so we can't complain if they're taken away.

Don't be sorry. Our lives don't belong to us so we can't complain if they're taken away." Those were the words that Alex remembered when, half an hour later, the lights blinked out

The thing is, Alex, you're never really in control, whatever you may think. Just keep paddling and never fight the current because the current will always win.

If you do God's work, all your needs will be provided.

No man ever freely surrendered a portion of his own liberty for the sake of the public good; such a chimera appears only in fiction. If it were possible, we would each prefer that the pacts binding others did not bind us; every man sees himself as the centre of all the world's affairs.

I allowed life to give me presents. And everything just sort of happened the way it was supposed to happen. I did not pursue anything. It more or less pursued me.

From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.

Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.