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Quotes About Surrender

Fully to surrender to love can be terrifying. But it is the price life asks in exchange for the possibility of ecstasy.
~ Nathaniel Branden
I surrender myself to everything. I love, I feel pain, I struggle. The world seems to me wider than the mind, my heart a dark and almighty mystery.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?
~ Paulo Coelho
Love is a process in which ego is lost and infinity is experienced.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
I am possessed by love and have no options.
~ Elizabeth Smart
Underneath it all, you longed to be annihilated by love.
~ Erica Jong
I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.
~ George Eliot
... so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being that has known how to touch it. That being is not selected; it is recognised and obeyed.
~ George Santayana
The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.
~ James A. Baldwin
Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.
~ James Anthony Froude
O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
I have to admit, in the end, I like to surrender to someone; the person I love.
~ Laura Pausini
A lover is always accused of something. But when he finds his love, whatever was lost in the looking comes back completely changed.
~ Rumi
Wake up Lovers, It is time to start the Journey! Let us kiss the ground & flow like a river towards the Ocean. Only love can lead the way.
~ Rumi
Love is a madman, working his wild schemes, tearing off his clothes, running through the mountains...
~ Rumi
It's goodbye to reality when love sets in.
~ Saul Bellow
To cease to love -- that is defeat.
~ Susan Glaspell
My understanding is that to love, we need to be able to totally surrender to the living/dying nature of this world.
~ Tara Brach
Surrender your self-interest. Love others as much as you love yourself. Then you can be entrusted with all things under heaven.
~ Laozi
And there's also 'To him that hath shall be given.' After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can't give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.
~ C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Love simply is. [...] Love and don't ask too many questions. Just love.
~ Paulo Coelho
There is no Love greater than Love with no object. For then you, yourself, have become love, itself.
~ Rumi
I opened my arms to Love and Love embraced me like a Lover
~ Rumi