Quotes About Surrender

Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong.

Why do we fight the things we fight when giving into them isn't so bad at all?

Why couldn't it belong to him anymore? Why couldn't he belong to it? Because he gave it up. He held on to himself, and he threw the other things away.

God often gives nuts to toothless people.              Ã¢â'¬â€Matt Groening

The damage in many cases was lifelong. These women had not just surrendered a child. They had surrendered control over the most important decision they might ever make to people who they felt did not necessarily have their best interest at heart. The shame was no longer about being single and pregnant. The shame was that they had given away, or not fought hard enough to keep, their child.

Sometimes we pray for help in accepting what comes our way. That takes a bit of magic, too -George

submitting to the will of another requires trust and humility.

There are going to be some things in life that you can't change.

That was it for Pete. He bent

To ABDICATE  (A'BDICATE)   v.a.[Lat. abdico.]To give up right; to resign; to lay down an office. Old Saturn, here, with upcast eyes,Beheld his abdicated skies.Addison.

Not everyone is meant to change the world. We let the world change around us. We let it die if it will. We live small lives, constrained by habit and fear.

The lighthouse stood defiant against the onslaught of wind and wave, like a knight in a white tunic refusing to surrender even though he is shot through with bullets and his ribs are laid bare.

La tercera edad no es una lucha: es una carnicería. Cada día trae un nuevo dolor y con él una nueva capitulación

I realize the blackness of sleep is circling my head. It's been there awhile, biding its time and growing closer with each revolution. I give up on rage, which at this point has become a formality, and make a mental note to get angry again in the morning. Then I let myself drift, because there's really no fighting it.

You don't get anything without giving up something.

To you," he said, "I surrender my heart and soul." She rolled her eyes. "Very romantic, considering you have neither.

So there you have it--my sorry tale. That's how something I though I controlled ended up controlling me.

But sometimes you lose. Nothing you can do but admit it. -Eli

If what you're asking is how I debated whether or not to love her the answer is I didn't. Not at all. It just happened. I didn't ever question it; by the time I realized what was happening, it was already done.

You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it'll happen.

The way I see it, she continued, is that some things are just meant to be the way they are.

but accepting help doesn"t have to mean giving up control.

I'd been caught up in some wild cyclone, like Dorothy throw into Oz, with not a good witch in sight to save me.

Please God, I'm begging you