Quotes About Surrender

But she could not move of her own free will—an order from them would immediately have made her get up, but this time what they wanted from her was not blind obedience, acquiescence to an order, they wanted her to anticipate orders, to judge herself a slave and surrender herself as such. This, then, is what they called her consent.

All we ask you to do is submit to it, and, if you scream or moan, to agree ahead of time that it will be in vain

Y es que René la dejaba libre y ella detestaba su libertad. Su libertad era peor que cualquier cadena.

Thus, he had thrust his hands and sex into her, ransacked and ravaged her mouth and rear, but condescended only to place his lips upon her fingertips.

From now on the only times you will open your mouth here in the presence of a man will be to cry out or to caress." So

And yet never had she felt herself more totally committed to a will which was not her own, more totally a slave, and more content to be so. When

Finally, let it be said that to surrender oneself to the will of others (as often happens with lovers and mystics) and so find oneself at last rid of selfish pleasures, interests, and personal complexes, is in no wise a joyless act, nor one lacking in grandeur.

O se alegraba de que René la hiciera azotar y la prostituyera porque su apasionada sumisión daba a su amante la prueba de su entrega.

Ele não queria se separar dela. Quanto mais a entregasse mais ela pertencia a ele. O fato de oferecê-la era mais uma prova , e devia ser para ela também, de que ela lhe pertencia; só se pode dar aquilo que se tem.

I love you, do whatever you want with me, but don't leave me, for God's sake don't leave me." Who

she lost herself in a delirious absence from herself which restored her to love and, perhaps, brought her to the edge of death.

Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.

Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily

She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is protecting you from all evil and all danger

At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.

To love is to lose control.

Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.

But love is much like a dam: if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure, and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current. For when those walls come down, then love takes over, and it no longer matters what is possible or impossible; it doesn't even matter whether we can keep the loved one at our side. To love is to lose control.

When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left!

Thy will be done, my Lord. Because you know the weakness in the heart of your children, and you assign each of them only the burden they can bear. May you understand my love–because it is the only thing I have that is really mine, the only thing that I will be able to take with me into the next life. Please allow it to be courageous and pure; please make it capable of surviving the snares of the world.

Those who are truly enlightened, those whose souls are illuminated by love, have been able to overcome all of the inhibitions and preconceptions of their era. They have been able to sing, to laugh, and to pray out loud; they have danced and shared what Saint Paul called 'the madness of saintliness'. They have been joyful - because those who love conquer the world and have no fear of loss. True love is an act of total surrender.

YOU don't choose your life; it chooses you. There's no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them and carry on.

Things do not always happen the way I would have wanted, and it's best that I get used to that.

I'm not worried about tomorrow, because God is there already, waiting for me.