Quotes About Surrender

In the final analysis, with Rene she had been an apprentice to love, she had loved him only to learn how to give herself, enslaved and surfeited, to Sir Stephen.

How can I make you the vessel of the Void? What kind of love would that be?""The greatest kind of all.

In manustuas, Domine!

Her ?eyi ver ve b?rak diledi?ini yaps?n.

But my identity belongs to me. Only I can surrender that.

To love is to lose control.  Ã¢â'¬â€Paulo Coelho

I see you have prepared the chessboard. He grinned a devilish grin. I thought we could play for it. I win, you marry me. You win, I marry you. That way we both win (p.120)

This time, there were things I'd be giving up forever. My visa to the Land of the Popular, for one thing, and probably even my return ticket to the Borderlands of Respectability.

MANY YEARS AGO I REALIZED THAT A BOOK, a novel, is a dream that asks itself to be written in the same way we fall in love with someone: the dream becomes impossible to resist, there's nothing you can do about it, you finally give in and succumb even if your instincts tell you to run the other way because this could be, in the end, a dangerous game—someone will get hurt.

People have no idea how strong a pull sex, money, and power have on them until they try to resist their pull.

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The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not . . . yet, I occurred. —PAUL ATREIDES, Memories of Muad'Dib

The thing is to let life assault you, make yourself as defenseless as you can. If it bruises you, don't protest. Love your fate.

Messages "For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself." – Viktor Frankl

Give up the drop. Become the ocean." – Rumi

Rumi says: 'die before you die'. It means live each moment fully. Then, when the moment dies, there is no pain or regret because you'd already lived it completely," said Zoya.

I measure the coffee exactly. Pour in the water. As the flavor bursts, she surrenders. "Oh, you are old for such a long time!" She frets over the sugar bowl in the center of a tin tray. "You think it won't happen to you, but it will. You may live a long time, but most of life is old, old, old!

That we ought, once for all, heartily to put our whole trust in GOD, and make a total surrender of ourselves to Him, secure that He would not deceive us.

That we ought to give ourselves up to GOD, with regard both to things temporal and spiritual, and seek our satisfaction only in the fulfilling of His will, whether He lead us by suffering or by consolation, for all would be equal to a soul truly resigned

To obey to the point of death requires the ability to die, and for this, Jesus had to be human.

We have a mutual friend, see, and she- Ah, screw it. This is Gideon. When would it be convenient for you to die?

I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality. We can know that reality is good just as it is, because when we argue with it, we experience tension and frustration. We don't feel natural or balanced. When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.

I often say that if I had a prayer, it would be this: God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen. I

There's only one thing harder than accepting this, and that is not accepting it.