Quotes About Relinquishment

I gave all up to him to do with me as he pleased, and was willing that God should rule over me at his pleasure

Priya thinks, The things we give away are no longer ours to control.

Oh, thought Tom, so it finishes as quickly as this. All the things we make exceptional are merely borrowed from the mundane and must without warning be surrendered to it.

I'll just get my things" "I understand." "Actually I haven't got any things.

And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system.

I simply don't become attached to the outer world or to anything. I work for God. I do the very best I can, and then I give the results to Him.

True strength manifested itself not in the exercise of power, but in the willingness to give it up. So Tolkien, as a Christian, believed. It was why, in the last year of

If she could only give up, relax, and live in the perfect knowledge that there was no hope.

Everything I've ever let go of has claw marks on it. (on the wall of a bedroom at a recovery house for alcoholics and drug addicts)

I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book!

The moment I sold the Plymouth was like having a tumor removed.

Écrire, disait [Georges Perros], c'est renoncer au monde en implorant le monde de ne pas renoncer à nous. (p. 37)

I've had nothing to do with the intelligence world since I left it, in any shade or variety.

Not mine, oh, Lord, but thine.

How do you resign yourself to something that will never be? You stop wanting just that thing. You go numb. Or you kill the agent of desire.

I submit to you, Mr. President of Congress, my formal resignation as president of the republic.

One true king knew when to step aside and give up the reins of power—to remove his crown and relinquish his kingdom—all for the sake of glimpsing, just once in a lifetime, the face of a holy child. He was the Fourth to follow the Star. His gift was a secret. The rest of his journey is unknown.

Many men who had spent their working lives in the East were terrified of going home to England and living on a pension. Gone were the spacious home, the servants, the ponies, the cars, and the memberships in every club. But

This is a fine chance to let go, to "win my life by losing it," which means not recklessness but acceptance, not passivity but nonattachment.

Letting go is harder than you can imagine.

Leave all else to the gods.

I hate menus, I hate choosing food. I just want to be brought. Bring me dinner!

Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.

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