Quotes About Surrender

Love? I wanted to go with him, to be on the stronger side, for him to spare me, like one who seeks shelter in the arms of the enemy to stay far from his arrows. It was different than love, I was finding out: I wanted him as a thirsty person desires water, without feelings, without even wanting to be happy.

But if I hope to understand in order to accept things - the act of surrender will never happen. I must take the plunge all at once, a plunge that includes comprehension and especially incomprehension. And who am I to dare to think? What I have to do is surrender. How is it done? I know however that only by walking do you know how to walk and - miracle - find yourself walking.

But after much thought, I have come to the conclusion that there is nothing more difficult in this world than to surrender completely. This is one of man's greatest sorrows.

And giving myself over with the confidence of belonging to the unknown. For I can pray only to what I do not know. And I can love only the unknown evidence of things and can add myself only to what I do not know. Only that is a real giving of oneself.

There could only be a meeting of their mysteries if one surrendered to the other: the surrender of two unknowable worlds done with the trust with which two understandings might surrender to each other.

Nada existe de mais difícil do que entregar-se ao instante. Esta dificuldade é dor humana.

Nothing is more difficult than surrendering to the instant. That difficulty is human pain. It is ours. I surrender in words and surrender when I paint.

Pero esos días de fuerte y condenado verano me insuflan la necesidad de la renuncia. Renuncio a tener un significado, y entonces un dulce y doloroso quebranto se apodera de mí.

But he surrenders to it voluptuously, benevolently observing his confused desire to breathe frequently, deeply, to bare himself in the sun, to take the girl's hand.

I always wanted to reach a state of peace and non-struggle. I thought that was the ideal state. But it so happens that — that am I really me without my struggle? No, I don't know how to have peace.

I wanted to go with him, to be on the stronger side, for him to spare me, like one who seeks shelter in the arms of the enemy to stay far from his arrows. It was different than love, I was finding out: I wanted him as a thirsty person desires water, without feelings, without even wanting to be happy

Renda-se, como eu me rendi. Mergulhe no que você não conhece como eu mergulhei. Não se preocupe em entender, viver ultrapassa qualquer entendimento.

No huir, pero ir. Eso, tan dulce: no huir, ir... O gritar alto, alto y recto e infinito, con los ojos cerrados, tranquilos. Andar hasta encontrar las lucecitas rojas. Tan trémulas como en un comienzo o en un fin. También ella estaba muriendo, ¿o naciendo? No, no ir, quedarse rendida en el instante como la mirada absorta se prende en el vacío quiete, fija en el aire.

At love's most intoxicating moment, I have enough freedom left to want to abandon it, for a moment, to other hands.

En resumen, no os enfadéis, o por lo menos, no os turbéis porque os habéis turbado, no os alteréis porque os habéis alterado, no os inquietéis porque esas molestas pasiones os han inquietado; tomad vuestro corazón y ponedlo suavemente en manos de nuestro Señor (Carta a una señora, 833). Haced que vuestro corazón vuelva a estar en paz con vos misma, aunque estéis tan llena de miserias» (Carta 186).

Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely.

God of Clotilda, if you grant me victory I shall become a Christian.

Are you there? Say a prayer for the pretender who started out so young and strong only to surrender

From 'A Bowl Fallen From the Roof' Be quiet now and wait. It may be that the ocean one, the one we desire so to move into and become, desires us out here on land a little longer, going our sundry ways to the shore. -Rumi

Fold within fold, the beloved drowns in its own being. This world is drenched with that drowning.

Faith is believing that the outcome will be what it should be, no matter what it is.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that.