Quotes About Surrender

Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.

Não se luta contra o destino; o melhor é deixar que nos pegue pelos cabelos e nos arraste até onde queira alçar-nos ou despenhar-nos.

Come on, Pandora, open your belly, and digest me; This thing is amusing, but digest me.

I preferred to sleep, which is an interim way of dying.

It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.

When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.

God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent.

If thou could'st empty all thyself of self Like to a shell dishabited Then might He find thee on the ocean shelf And say This is not dead and fill thee with Himself instead. But thou art all replete with very thou And hast such shrewd activity That when He comes He says This is enow Unto itself - 'twere better let it be It is so small and full there is no room for me.

If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.

I simply take him into my heart, and then put him into God's hand.

It's better to take it out on God. He can cope with all our angers. That's one thing my long span of chronology has taught me. If I take all my anger, if I take all my bitterness over the unfairness of this mortal life, and throw it all to God, he can take it all and transform it into love before he gives it back to me.

Or don't allow yourself to want something you're not going to have the courage to accept when you get it.

I've gone out alone and bellowed in rage at God at the top of my lungs. But the fact that I bellow at him I suppose proves that I think he's there, doesn't it? Go ahead and be mad at God if you feel like it, Vicky. [...] But remember when you're yelling at God, what you're doing is saying, Do it MY way, God, not YOUR way, but MY way

Only obedience,' he said aloud to the room, as though to convince himself, 'is perfect freedom.

Anyone, Eliza is thinking, who describes dying as 'slipping away' or 'peaceful' has never witnessed it happen. Death is violent, death is a struggle. The body clings to life, as ivy to a wall, and will not easily let go, will not surrender its grip without a fight.

Medal, Intrigue, Sutter's Gold, Tiffany, Sweet Surrender, Double Delight, Climbing Crimson Glory, Don Juan, Royal Sunset, Rosa rugosa, Blanc Double de Coubert, Frau Dagmar Haustrup, Sparrieshoop

Medal, Intrigue, Sutter's Gold, Tiffany, Sweet Surrender, Double Delight, Climbing Crimson Glory, Don Juan, Royal Sunset, Rosa rugosa, Blanc Double de Coubert

Montezuma's speech was not his surrender; it was his acceptance of a Spanish surrender.

Come to me, that I may give your flesh to the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the field

The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.

When we give up the chase, we give up our wishing.

If you go with the flow, life will take you where it pleases, good or bad. If you take charge and fight, you can go anywhere that you please.

Despite the voices of the culture that would scream otherwise, victory is irreparably tied to the surrender of self. And that explains why so few are truly victorious.

Your life may not have gone the way you planned it, but it will go the way it's supposed to.