Quotes About Relinquishment

It's always an interesting experience with the 'Saw' films, when a sequel comes out that I didn't have anything to do with, creatively, because here's this idea, this story, and this character that I created for James Wan, but now it doesn't need me anymore.

I need no longer always manage and muster support for my "cause.

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.

Letting go is recognizing when your need to control is controlling you and choosing to release control.

de Caussade, Abandonment

Abandonment to Divine Providence. Translated and Introduced by John Beevers. Image Books: New York, 1975

Whatever life takes away from you, let it go

Quien se entrega a otro como un soldado que se rinde, debe hacer previamente entrega de cualquier tipo de arma.

Yes. I quite understand Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I'm giving away everything I had—clothes, gifts, everything, and I'm getting new ones, for the same reason. Not because I hate the sight of them and what they represent, but because I'd rather not have them around.

4. All that is dear to me and everyone I love are of the nature to change. There is no way to escape being separated from them. I cannot keep anything. I come here empty-handed, and I go empty-handed.

Yet, strain does not seem to do good. At the moment I feel something "let go" inside, lo, God is here! It is a heart-melting "here-ness," a lovely whispering of father to child; and the reason I did not have it before was that I had failed to let go.

He saw that no one owned anything really. It's all rented, or borrowed. Our possessions will outlast us, we'll desert them in the end.

She was never coming back, she no longer knew what knitting was, but wrapping up her scores of needles, her thousand patterns, a baby's half-finished yellow shawl, to give them all away to strangers was to banish her from the living.

I cannot own the sky.

I'm beyond the point of thinking I'm powerful enough to solve my own problems.

There are some things you have to give up to the higher power.

I don't want to leave the world in a state of fright. I want to know what's happening, accept it, get to a peaceful place, and let go

That was the end of his driving.. That was the end of his walking free.. That was the end of his privacy.. And that was the end of his secret.

We all have to surrender our need for our world to be ordered according to our conceptions of justice, logic, and rational motives. Just as you must have realized by now that your world does not, in fact, revolve around you—that you have very little authority over your life and that even making it alive until sundown is not in your hands—you must reach the stage of spiritual maturity where you surrender to God.

We are so deluded. We are in control of nothing whatsoever; not the weather, not the government, not the stock market, not traffic, barely our health and relationships, not the millions of decisions being made by people all over the world every second—all of which influence our lives in both unseen and all-too-apparent ways. We

I used to think that it was better to have too much than too little, but now I think if the too much was never supposed to be yours, you should just take what is yours and give the rest back.

Happiness consists in finding out precisely what the one thing necessary may be, in our lives, and in gladly relinquishing all the rest. For then, by a divine paradox, we find that everything else is given us together with the one thing we needed.

The tighter you squeeze the less you have.

Great," Keagan said simply. "Nice to meet you, Miss Castle. I'm off for a week, so I won't be around for a while." He sounded relieved. "But Jack Smith