Quotes About Surrender

It's the rule of life: everything you've always waited for comes the very second you stop looking for it.

Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.

Sometimes in life not getting what you want can be the best thing thing for you.

There are things we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without, but have to let go.

When GOD takes away something from your hand, don't think He's punishing you... He is merely emptying your hand, for you to receive something better. Have Faith!

You can't control everything. Sometimes you just need to relax and have faith that things will work out. Let go a little and just let life happen.

Remember: God will never give you more than you can bare. It is in His hands, He will comfort you. He will take care of it. Trust Him.

God does not help those who help themselves; He helps those who know they cant help themselves.

Waited. Got tired. Lost hope. Let go.

You can be mad as a mad dog at the way things went. You can Swear and curse the fates. But when it comes to the end. You have to let go.

when the fortress of the body is besieged on all sides the mind must at length succumb.

Our love of life is only an old connexion of which we do not know how to rid ourself. Its strength lies in its permanence. But death which severs it will cure us of the desire for immortality.

Talvez o nada é que seja a verdade e todo o nosso sonho não exista, mas sentimos então que essas frases musicais, essas noções que existem em função do sonho, não hão de ser nada tampouco. Pereceremos, mas temos como reféns essas divinas cativas que seguirão a nossa sorte. E a morte com elas tem alguma coisa de menos amargo, de menos inglório, de menos provável, talvez.

It's not easy, you know, to surrender yourself wholeheartedly and generously. Whether the relationship is with God or with another person, there's a great deal of giving-up of self involved in it. I couldn't do it.

Start praying like this and you'll see. Not "some way to sleep with her" - but a way to stop wanting to. Not "some way to get rid of him" - but a way to stop trying. Not "some way to save my child" - but a way to lose fear. Redirect your prayers like that, and watch what happens.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

We all have our crosses to bear. We carry them heavily, out of love for our brothers in arms. But sometimes you have to let go of the idea that anyone down here is in control.

Left untended, the holes through which freedom escapes widen. When politicians restrict our rights in order to "protect us," freedom is lost. When the military refuses to disclose basic facts, freedom is lost. Worst of all, when fear becomes a part of our lives, we willingly surrender freedom for a promise of safety, as if freedom weren't the very basis of safety.

She must transform his hands so they will be willing to twist the rope around throats that have been singled out as hers was, throats other than hers. She must marry the hangman or no one, but that is not so bad. Who else is there to marry?

In order to avoid her death, her particular death, with wrung neck and swollen tongue, she must marry the hangman.

Joy means holding on to hope in God regardless of the outcome. Declaring we will give up everything and entrust ourselves more fully and wholly to the One who holds all things together.

Non mi prendere mai sul serio quando ti dico di lasciarmi. Tienimi, ti prego, tienimi. Vieni quando ti pare, una volta al mese, una volta all'anno, ma tienimi...».

The war was not on that map, and neither was the surrender... that makes me happy and sad— happy because I know the streams will keep streaming and the skies will keep clouding and clearing, even as people fight and tear and claw at each other... what we do makes me sad too because what difference do we make? Looking around me, at all the graves and leftover destruction— seems we just keep on messing up a darned good thing.

There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.