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Quotes About Surrender

This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes air, or swallows a snowflake, or yields to the sun.
~ Unknown
Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated.
~ Charles Spurgeon
There's not much to be done about the impossibility. One must instead get rid of the desire.
~ Ernest Sosa
To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves.
~ Mark Epstein
When you leave the desires behind, you will find the graveyards ahead!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Miracles can only inhabit the reality of our awareness when we surrender our need for the familiar to our desire for the limitless.
~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Do your part, but stop trying to steer your destiny. You're not in charge.
~ Yasmin Mogahed
Our lives are of great worth if we accept with good grace the situation Providence places us in, and go on living lovingly.
~ Unknown
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
~ Seneca the Younger
Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome.
~ Wilbur Smith
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois
~ Voltaire
Resist as much as thou wilt; heaven's ways are heaven's ways.
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.
~ Seneca the Younger
The only way to the Place beyond Fear is to do the thing you fear most. This is how to surrender to your best destiny.
~ Martha Beck
Resign your destiny to higher powers.
~ William James
The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't make any plans, because there is only one plan which really works and that is not even devised by you
~ Alok Jagawat
You can't believe in fate only when it sends you something you want, only when things turn out right. You have to accept what fate sends you or doesn't send you, no matter whether or not you like it.
~ Tom Upton, Just Plain Weird
When its time has come the prey goes to the hunter.
~ Persian Proverb
What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Allah's plan is better than your dreams.
~ Salman al-Ouda
What has made me successful is the ability to surrender my plans, dreams and goals to a power that's greater than other people and greater than myself.
~ Oprah Winfrey
It was a dream, and in dreams you have no choices: either there are no decisions to be made, or they were made for you long before ever the dream began.
~ Neil Gaiman