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Quotes About Surrender

Ahora, con la perspectiva del tiempo y de la libertad que he adquirido en los últimos años, comprendo cuánto me humillé por amor. Dejé de lado todo, desde mi personalidad hasta mi trabajo, por soñar en un paraíso doméstico que no era para mí.
~ Isabel Allende
in the end they grew tired of making all these efforts to stay young and active, and gave in to the temptation of simply resting. I
~ Isabel Allende
Why be so attached to what we are bound to lose anyway?
~ Isabel Allende
because people who had anxiously waited fifty years to be in power would not relinquish it because there was a chicken shortage.
~ Isabel Allende
L'unica cosa che voglio è chiudere gli occhi e smettere di esistere, dissolvermi nel vuoto, come la nebbia all'alba
~ Isabel Allende
El primer paso es admitir que uno carece de control sobre su vida.
~ Isabel Allende
Tendemos a postergarnos por los hijos, los compañeros, los padres y por casi todos los demás. Nos sometemos y sacrificamos por amor, eso nos parece el colmo de la nobleza.
~ Isabel Allende
He thought that if the youngster had survive the shock, the hemorrhaging, and the journey to reach this station platform, he must really want to live; and so it would be a shame to surrender him to death now.
~ Isabel Allende
Voy dejando ir, voy soltando…
~ Isabel Allende
Consciente de que se requiere una gran ligereza para desprenderse del suelo, echó todo por la borda, se deshizo de sus bienes terrenales y eliminó sentimientos y deseos superfluos, quedándose sólo con lo esencial, escribió unas cuantas cartas y por último se tendió en su cama para no levantarse más.
~ Isabel Allende
Creo que ha decidido morirse, y la ciencia no tiene remedio alguno contra ese mal
~ Isabel Allende
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
~ Aristophanes
I think it's important to surrender to situations that take you out of your comfort zone.
~ Haley Bennett
How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.
~ Euripides
Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.
~ Shakti Gawain
Today I know that I cannot control the ocean tides. I can only go with the flow.... When I struggle and try to organize the Atlantic to my specifications, I sink. If I flail and thrash and growl and grumble, I go under. But if I let go and float, I am borne aloft.
~ Marie Stilkind
Anxiety is that range of distress which attends willing what cannot be willed.
~ Leslie H. Farber
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
~ Winston Churchill
He who attempts to resist the wave is swept away, but he who bends before it abides.
~ Bible
The great soul surrenders itself to fate.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
I have accepted all and I am free. The inner chains are broken, as well as those outside.
~ C. F. Ramuz
Resistance causes pain and lethargy. It is when we practice acceptance that new possibilities appear.
~ Anonymous
Better to accept whatever happens.
~ Horace
Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
~ John Henry Cardinal Newman