Quotes About Surrender

Cu cât îmb?trânesc, cu atât m? las mai mult în voia lui Dumnezeu, ÅŸi preÅ£uiesc tot mai puÅ£in inteligenÅ£a care vrea s? ÅŸtie ÅŸi voinÅ£a care vrea s? fac?; ÅŸi recunosc ca singur? cale spre mântuire credinÅ£a, care ÅŸtie s? aÅŸtepte cu r?bdare, f?r? s? întrebe prea mult.

universe to be questioned or understood. All that a mere man could do, it seemed to Jurgis, was to take a thing like this as he found it, and do as he was told; to be given a place in it and a share in its wonderful activities was a blessing to be grateful for, as one was grateful for the sunshine and the rain.

four divisions of magnificent paratroopers were dead in the snows of Russia or prisoners in Russian labor camps. Their Führer had just proclaimed three days of mourning for the three hundred thousand heroes who had been cut to pieces in front of Stalingrad—after he had forbidden them to surrender.

They had understood that Paris must be abandoned, so as to save it from destruction. But to surrender, to turn all France over to the boches, to desert Britain and give up the promised aid from America?—c'était la honte, la trahison! Some stood with tears running down their cheeks. Lanny thought, it was as he had said to Kurt, the French body had been separated from the head, and the body was paralyzed.

But Seehund hurled his love at her, his entire body. It was a love she recognized—she'd felt it within herself but had never been able to demonstrate it with such abandon.

Don't aim at success -- the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. 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.

Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.

God knows better than we do what we need.

What love commences can be finished by God alone.

He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up, though tottering himself. He felt as if his head were filled with smoke; flashes of light slipped through his eyelids; his thoughts vanished; it seemed to him that he was performing a religious act, and that he was committing a profanation. Moreover, he did not feel one passionate desire for this ravishing woman, whose form he felt against his heart. He was lost in love.

Confiar es a veces abandonar.

L'homme a sur lui la chair, qui est tout à la fois son fardeau et sa tentation. Il la traîne et lui cède.

Above all, you can believe in Providence in either of two ways, either as thirst believes in the orange, or as the ass believes in the whip.

She is resigned, with that resignation resembling indifference as death resembles sleep.

plunged into chance,--that is to say, swallowed up in Providence

The claw, that's the beast that enters your flesh; the sucker, that's you yourself who enters into the beast. (...) Beyond the terror of being eaten alive is the ineffability of being drunk alive.

Ah, miten mielelläni hukuttautuisin, jollei vesi olisi niin kylmää!

Life is messy-- especially now-- it will help if you accept the mess and let it be.

Vianne worried about her constantly, but there was nothing to be done about worry; it had to be borne.

Time and again, she had returned to God, pleading for help, promising her faith. She wanted to believe that she was neither alone nor in charge, but rather that her life was unfolding according to His plan, even if she couldn't see it.

Some lives are not ours to hold on to;

Una y otra vez había vuelto los ojos a Dios para pedirle ayuda, ofrecerle su fe. Quería creer que no estaba ni sola ni a cargo de nadie, sino que su vida se desarrollaba de acuerdo con Sus designios, incluso si ella no podía verlos. Ahora

Once you've decided to die, the plan gets easy

Once you're ready to die, the plan gets easy