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Quotes About Surrender

Siempre habrá una paz, pero no tengo más que una vida.
~ Jordi Sierra i Fabra
El amor es lo único a lo que no se puede renunciar, porque está ahí, siempre. Aparece y desaparece a su antojo sin que puedas hacer nada...Las personas buscan el amor lo mismo que las plantas al sol.
~ Jordi Sierra i Fabra
He can verify that axiom of demonographers, that the Evil One dupes all persons who give themselves, or are willing to give themselves, to him.
~ Joris-Karl Huysmans
The combinations of these two elements, enchantment and surrender, is, then, essential to the love which we are discussing... What exists in love is surrender due to enchantment.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
Christ does not control his subjects by force, but is King of a willing people. They are, through His grace, freely devoted to His service.
~ Joseph Alleine
The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.
~ Joseph Barber Lightfoot

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

~ Joseph Campbell
We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
~ Joseph Campbell
You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.
~ Joseph Campbell
To the destructive element submit yourself.
~ Joseph Conrad
Providence - for whom everything, even an obstacle, is a means.
~ Joseph de Maistre
Had Marshal Foch accepted Matthias Erzberger's plea to stop the fighting on November 8 while negotiations were under way, likely, 6,750 lives would have been spared and nearly 15,000 maimed, crippled, burned, blinded, and otherwise injured men would instead have gone home whole. All this sacrifice was made over scraps of land that the Germans, under the armistice, were compelled to surrender within two weeks.
~ Joseph E. Persico
Don't spit into heaven... Don't tell the gods your plans; they'll only laugh.
~ Joseph Monninger
all of our trials are caused by restlessness, the refusal to accept the fact that limitations exist
~ Joseph O Connor
Confronting authority, one has only two choices: Surrender, or try to confuse it.
~ Joseph O'Connor
Was hätte es schließlich genützt, die "ultimative Waffe" abzuwerfen und dann nicht einmal den Anruf des kapitulierenden Feindes entgegennehmen zu können?
~ Joseph P. Farrell
Well, I'm more lopsided than a one-legged badger," mewed Graypaw, breaking off from his careful stalking to stagger comically across the clearing. "I think I'll have to settle for hunting stupid mice. They won't stand a chance. I'll just wander up to them and sit on them till they surrender.
~ Erin Hunter
En este monasterio somos viajeros que viajan sin equipaje. Deportados que regresan a la patria. Liberados que no traen nada de las celdas en que estuvieron o de los campos de concentración.
~ Ernesto Cardenal
Voilà Dvora, je sens des abeilles dans mon sang, un ours dans mon cÅ"ur, chaque battement est une patte qui démolit la ruche. Elle me donne sa main et moi je sais que je ne la lui rendrai plus.
~ Erri De Luca
Sometimes I think the greatest things God teaches us are only found when we realize that we were never in control in the first place. I think your need to control things is just your fear of the unknown. Don't miss out on the blessings He has for you just because you're scared.
~ Erynn Mangum
To be transformed implies letting go of control for a while in the hopeful expectation that something worthwhile may result
~ ESTHER DE WAAL
It Is Impossible to Control Conditions That Others Have Created
~ Esther Hicks
When you believe that is through your effort that you make it happen, and you apply effort and get tired, then you disconnect from what really makes it happen. Abraham -- G 2/28/93
~ Esther Hicks
It is not your job to make something happen—Universal Forces are in place for all of that. Your work is to simply determine what you want.
~ Esther Hicks