Quotes About Surrender

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Another way of stating the matter is to propose that we only approach happiness to the extent that we manage to relinquish our need to control the trajectory of our existence—that we resist the attraction of definitive conclusions regarding how our lives are supposed to evolve.

Maybe love is just that, and only that. The choice you make. And so, you choose to love. You choose to give it all up, to surrender your scared self and live in this mystery. Jik

Are you going to let me be eaten?' Billy Beecham looks stunned. 'Don't you know that sometimes Beast collectors get collected?' I ask him. 'But you're a virgin.' 'Virgins were never sacrifices,' I say. "Not to this kind of Beast. Virgin are collaborators.

Are you going to let me be eaten?' Billy Beecham looks stunned. 'Don't you know that sometimes Beast collectors get collected?' I ask him. 'But you're a virgin.' 'Virgins were never sacrifices,' I say. "Not to this kind of Beast. Virgins are collaborators.

She'd surrendered son and brother here, her home-hall become a brutal battlefield. Innocent of crime, yet cursed, captured, speared, worse. Hoc's daughter was savaged by sorrow, grief-gutted. Who wouldn't weep, as dawn drove feud-daggers deeper, the sun scoring her son's wounds, day breaking upon her dearest dead? They'd been her heart, her happiness, her hopes. War had wrung them ragged, dragged them to death across a court of sword-crossed kin.

Siempre hay alguien que elige, y otro que tiene que aceptar la elección.

God cuts out our path, makes a groove in the clay with His finger, and we poor blind ants slide down into it.

It's all yours. Lock, stock, and cobwebs.

You're not free until you've been made captive by / supreme belief.

Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. The world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.

Si para transmitir eso tuviéramos que proponernos dar ejemplo, probablemente significaría que no hemos entendido aún la maravilla de la entrega. Quien la ha captado, no desea prescindir de ella, porque la ama: no encuentra su felicidad contra la entrega, ni siquiera al margen de la entrega, sino precisamente en la entrega, por más que, al mismo tiempo, note el peso del sacrificio»[10].

Anything I've ever tried to keep by force I've lost.

Sometimes I open a book that's so beautiful I have to shut it because it hurts me. I can't stand it. It's like, Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! This is going to drive me into my own heart. A day or two days later I'm saying, All right, and I just surrender to it: Do it to me. Go ahead. I want it. I don't want it. I want it. I don't want it.

Giving birth is not a matter of pushing, expelling the baby, but of yielding, surrendering to birth energy.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

I have opened all the doors in my head. I have opened all the pores in my body. But only the tide rolls in.

I now can say I no longer fear death. Instead welcome it with open arms…

Every advancing step I take toward my goal of comfort is yet another retreating step I take away from God's goal of the impossible.

Surrender is a choice, it is never a calling.

Enlightenment is the food that eats you.

Evil is done in hopes that evil surrenders, but the deeds of the devil are burned too deep in the embers, and world of hunger in vengeance will always remember.

At that moment, something shifted sweetly inside him. It was forgiveness, beautiful and effortless and complete. For Louie Zamperini, the war was over.

When we turn from our sin, and have the blessed forgiveness of the Almighty, then we can ask Him to run things, and let Him be in charge.