Quotes About Relinquish

Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.

Everyone sort of has that voice of self-doubt in their head, but as an artist, you relinquish your right to have that voice.

Your best relief is to realize you are not a god. Nobody says that they are a god, but many people believe that they have the ability of God to control everything around them. Therefore, they regret that things do not happen in the way that they would like.

Do not suppose that I am smarting under disappointments. Quite the contrary. At times I am bemused to find how readily I relinquish all my expectations for the sake of reality, even when it is harsh. My God, if only some of this could be shared. But would it then be, would it be? No, it is only at the price of solitude.

We like control. This [punishing-blessing god] narrative allows us to live in the illusion that we can control our world, which is very appealing in our chaotic existence. This, though, is a form of superstition

Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.

He exhaled and took it. Letting her steam.

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

You need to know when to surrender the album.

Let go and let God

Let it go to have it forever.

I once asked God what I could give him. "Your problems," he said. "I've got everything else.

I have learned to hold all things loosely, so God will not have to pry them out of my hands.

Let go of this world and take hold of God with both hands.

We like to think we're in control but we never are.

The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like.

Everything I've ever let go of has claw marks on it.

I think you could say I came to the end of myself. I really did want a show all my own, and he had to hammer me pretty hard to make me see that it was all his. We don't like relinquishing the power we never had anyway, even though running the show ourselves never works. I surrendered everything to him. What did I have to lose?

At a time when he really needed to let go, he was holding on. To Lace. To his stuff. Let go, let God. Come on, man.

All of these things you will have to relinquish sooner or later. Perhaps you find it as yet hard to believe, and I am certainly not asking you to believe that your identity cannot be found in any of those things. You will know the truth of it for yourself. You will know it at the latest when you feel death approaching. Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" — and find that there is no death.

ENLIGHTENMENT CONSCIOUSLY CHOSEN means to relinquish your attachment to past and future and to make the Now the main focus of your life. It means choosing to dwell in the state of presence rather than in time. It

By and large, our present problem is one of attitudes and implements. We are remodeling the Alhambra with a steam-shovel, and we are proud of our yardage. We shall hardly relinquish the shovel, which after all has many good points, but we are in need of gentler and more objective criteria for its successful use

Yet the lure of the ideal is also, often imperceptibly, haunted by misgiving, even anxiety. Not only is whiteness as absence impossible, it is not wholly desirable. To relinquish dirt and stains, corporeality and thingness, is also to relinquish both the pleasures of the flesh and the reproduction upon which whiteness as racial power depends. To be nothing is to be dead, something

Put Jesus Christ in the driver's seat of your life and take your hands off the steering wheel.