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Quotes About Surrender

Dance with me, Death. I am ready. - Richard Cypher Rahl
~ Terry Goodkind
I MAY HAVE ALLOWED MYSELF SOME FLICKER OF EMOTION IN THE RECENT PAST, said Death, BUT I CAN GIVE IT UP ANY TIME I LIKE.
~ Terry Pratchett
You could say to the universe, this is not fair. And the universe would say: Oh, isn´t it? Sorry. You could save people. You could get there in the nick of time. And something could snap its fingers and say, no, it has to be this way. Let me tell you how it has to be.
~ Terry Pratchett
A certain realization dawned on him. 'Oh,' he said. YES, said Death. 'Not even time to finish my cake?' NO. THERE IS NO MORE TIME, EVEN FOR CAKE. FOR YOU, THE CAKE IS OVER. YOU HAVE REACHED THE END OF CAKE.
~ Terry Pratchett
Terry, to keep hoping for life in the midst of letting go is to rob me of the moment I am in.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
But human anatomy and human endurance are variable. While the much younger nun had succumbed to her injuries, Ursula's heart kept beating, her body unwilling to surrender its soul. Not a miracle, merely one of those quirks of fate, like the child who survives a fall from a sixth-floor window, and is only scratched.
~ Tess Gerritsen
There is a Zen story about a man riding a horse that is galloping very quickly. Another man, standing alongside the road, yells at him, Where are you going? and the man on the horse yells back, I don't know. Ask the horse. I think that is our situation. We are riding many horses that we cannot control.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
Look at the body as a royal chariot to which the ignorant cling, while the wise let go.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
Let it Be, Let it Be, Let it Be, Let it Be, Whisper words of wisdom, Let it Be.
~ The Beatles
The path is long, but self-surrender makes it short; the way is difficult, but perfect trust makes it easy.
~ The Mother
Let us offer our work to the Divine; this is the sure means of progressing. Go and prepare yourself and the best preparation is to be useful to the Divine's work. Works Of The Mother, vol.14, p.319
~ The Mother
You take up the spiritual path only when you feel you cannot do otherwise.
~ The Mother
Turn your mind completely away from your difficulty, concentrate exclusively on the Light and the Force coming from above; let the Lord do for your body whatever He pleases. Hand over to Him totally the entire responsibility of your physical being. ref. Words Of The Mother, vol 15, p.150
~ The Mother
Turn your mind completely away from your difficulty, concentrate exclusively on the Light and the Force coming from above; let the Lord do for your body whatever He pleases. Hand over to Him totally the entire responsibility of your physical being. Words Of The Mother, vol 15, p.150
~ The Mother
all beauty were passing, and you were given these things to hold in your arms before the world slipped away, would you give them up?
~ Theodore Dreiser
Letting go takes a lot of courage sometimes. But once you let go, happiness comes very quickly. You won't have to go around search for it.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Happiness can be attained by letting go, including letting go of your ideas about happiness.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Equanimity means to let go, not to abandon.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
To practice aimlessness is to identify what it is you're looking for, waiting for, or running after, and let it go.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
If the wave does not have to die to become water, then we do not have to die to enter the kingdom of God.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
One of the Buddha's most widely quoted phrases is attadipa saranam, which means taking refuge (saranam) in the island (dipa) of self (atta).
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Deja marchar a tus vacas y sé una persona libre. Déjalas marchar para poder ser realmente feliz.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
I don't go through life thinking I'm on a conveyer belt I can't jump off, but sometimes it's helpful to think that things are out of your control.
~ Alice Levine
I remember walking down the aisle, and I got down on my knees as a person who is so selfish, but when I rose back up the Lord had become the Master of my life.
~ Tim Scott