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Quotes About Surrender

You might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing.
~ Jodi Picoult
It was a catch-22: If you didn't put the trauma behind you, you couldn't move on. But if you did put the trauma behind you, you willingly gave up your claim to the person you were before it happened.
~ Jodi Picoult
Here I am, wasting away inside a book I wish I could escape, and all she wants to do is stay in the story. If I could talk to this girl Delilah, I'd ask her why on earth she would ever trade a single second of the world she's in for the one in which I'm stuck
~ Jodi Picoult
It was nice not having to be the one in control, for a little while. It was nice to be the one who was protected, instead of the one who'd been protecting eveyone else.
~ Jodi Picoult
There's a cliff at the end point of a person's life; most us of peer over the edge of it, hanging on. That's why, when someone chooses to let go, it's so dramatically visible. The body will seem almost transparent. The eys will be looking at something the rest of us can't see.
~ Jodi Picoult
Other things that leave you breathless: love so big that it tumbles you like a wave.
~ Jodi Picoult
I believe in love. I think it just hits you and pulls the rug out from underneath you and, like a baby, demands your attention every minute of the day.
~ Jodi Picoult
The hardest and greatest thing a human being can do is submit to his Creator.
~ Habeeb Akande
If you work your hardest, and you do your best, then the rest is not in your control, but in God's Hands.
~ Unknown
Have you ever struggled to find work or love, only to find them after you have given up? This is the paradox of letting go. Let go, in order to achieve. Letting go is God's law.
~ Mary Manin Morrissey
Let go when you're hurting too much. Give up when love isn't enough. For surely there is someone out there who will love you.
~ Unknown
Loneliness isn't just an emotion, it's a constant struggle to keep your chin held up, to not give in to the emptiness of life, to not surrender your soul to the darkness, to not let go those happy moments, to be devastated yet be alive.
~ Unknown
Dont take my hand if you arent willing to take everything that comes with it.
~ Unknown
Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you're beyond the need of God's grace.
~ Unknown
I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.
~ Peter De Vries
I'm done talking, done trying, done giving hope, done hoping, and most importantly, done getting hurt and being disappointed.
~ Unknown
At some point you give up because you are tired of being disappointed.
~ Unknown
Maybe being overwhelmed is a good thing...it means I'm not in control.
~ Unknown
I'm being as patient as I can be god.
~ Unknown
Being patient is not easy but then again Allah didn't say going to Paradise will be easy.
~ Unknown
We all need God in our life, stop being stubborn.
~ Unknown
I am tired of getting up every time I fall and trying to fight the fight I will never be able to win.
~ Unknown
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
~ Oscar Wilde
You will become frustrated if you try to make things happen on your own strength instead of relying on God.
~ Unknown