Quotes About Relinquishment

Some lives are not ours to hold on to;

Then, like anything else that can't be understood, that can't be influenced, we let it go by.

Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you can't control it. Sometimes things and people just go. Just like that.

Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you can't control it. Sometimes things and people just go. Just like that.

Giving up control is often confused with giving up.

Não é preciso vigor nenhum para conquistar seja o que for», dizia ele, «tudo está podre e se rende, mas largar, saber deixar ir, isso é que conta.»

Lasciatemi così come una cosa posata in un angolo e dimenticata

You will find that it is not a one-shot deal, this letting go. You must do it again and again and again. It's kind of like breathing. You can't breathe just once. Try it: Breathe just once. You'll pass out.

In order for this to happen, your entire frame of reference will have to change, and you will be forced to surrender many things that you now scarcely know you have.

Saint Mochua was the son of a certain Cronan, of noble race, and spent his youth in fighting. At the age of thirty, he laid aside his arms and burnt a house, with all its contents, which had been given to him by his uncle, saying that a servant of Christ should take nothing from sinners.

EXPECTATION If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

Having forsaken all things, a man should forsake himself.

I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor.

Anything you can aquire is only another thing you'll lose.

Proof that no investment is yours forever.

This is all my identification, my birth certificate, my everything. You can be Shannon McFarland from now on. My career. The ninety-degree attention. It's yours. All of it. Everything. I hope it's enough for you. It's everything I have left.

In Hell, hope is a really, really bad habit, like smoking cigarettes or fingernail biting. Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It's an addiction to break.

Sic nos in sceptra reponis?

Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.

I may as well confess that I gave Luzhin my French governess, my pocket chess set, my sweet temper, and the stone of the peach I plucked in my own walled garden.

Here I got rid of one of the most troublesome parts of my load — trading my venerable and battered Winchester rifle for a splendid new Colt's six-shooter with all its trappings — a perfect weapon which has since seen me through many a "close call." The exchange was a most welcome relief, and as for effectiveness, I soon got so handy with the new arm that there was no need for the rifle.

The court had handed her over to his charge. What a mistake! He should have had her when she was young if he was ever to hope to do anything with her. But he must do something. He reached out suddenly and took possession of the cigarette and case before the surprised girl had time to protest.

Christ's incarnation challenges us to give up our rights in order to love God and others. Philippians 2:6-7 says, "who though he existed in the form of God did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped, but emptied himself..." Christ did not hold onto his rights and privileges as deity but relinquished them in order to better love God and others.

I can't stay No. 1 for fifty years, you know. We'll see what happens.