Quotes About Relinquishment

You control what you can control. You give the rest to God." By

Let us give up our work, our thoughts, our plans, ourselves, our lives, our loved ones, our influence, our all, right into His hand, and then, when we have given all over to Him, there will be nothing left for us to be troubled about, or to make trouble about."9

The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.

Kendinize ait parçalar vard?r, say?s?z parçalar, bunlar? bir kez feda ederseniz bir daha asla yerine koyamazs?n?z.

It must be pleasant, I should think, to hand oneself over to somebody else. It must give you a warm, splendid, comfortable feeling.

all the good things that we have in life are on temporary loan, at best, and can be taken away from us in an instant.

If you want to live the Christian life, you will have to realize that Someone Else has to be in control.

Always there is the one choice to be made: which road to take? which duty to accept? which item, amidst a store's displays, to purchase as our own? The paths of the past parts of our lives are strewn with things not chosen. One believes, nay, one is taught , that choice provides fulfillment of desire. In truth, however, relinquishment and loss enter in to the bargain every single time. Loss looks over the shoulders of fair choice. For every thing one chooses, some thing is left behind.

I gave the knife to the one that had to stay behind

I've come to see the resolution, And I must cede the throne And hearken to my own delusion As if it ceased to be my own.

She's pretty, but in her face you can see all the things she's given up on in life.

Our bodies were trash. We leave them on the shore.

the royal crown and robe are never as grand as when the departing king leaves them on the ground ...

Ölüm bir kurtuluÅŸtur, çünkü ölen insan?n kimseye ihtiyac? kalmaz. Zavall? köle zorla kurtulmuÅŸ olur zevklerinden, ac?lar?ndan, arzulanan ve bitmek bilmeyen hayattan. Kral vazgeçemediÄŸi mülklerinden kurtulur. Zaferden zafere koÅŸanlar, hayatlar?n? adad?klar? zaferlerden kurtulur.

As soon as a job finishes, I am done with it. When I'm really, really enjoying the job, I love the job, I want it to end because it's supposed to.

We need to go to the niceties of approaching the U. N. and let them have a chance to take it over, but we should set some sort of date and begin to move out and leave it to whoever takes over.

You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

I have simply given up a longevity which I never possessed anyhow. I have turned away from the con game which the gods run in their heavenly side-show. I no longer care under which shell the pea of immortality might be found. I don't need it. I have my moment which is quite enough.

The Giver shrugged. "Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with differences." He thought for a moment. "We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.

Release was not the same as Loss.

I'll let my castle go

Hope is a strange commodity. It is an opiate. We swear we have relinquished it and, lo, here comes a day when, all unannounced, our enslavement to it returns.

To be broken means to have no rights before God and man. It does not mean merely surrendering my rights to Him but rather recognising that I haven't any, except to deserve hell. It means just being nothing and having nothing that I call my own, neither time, money, possessions nor position.

How else could she know that it needed all the strength of my love for her to leave now and give her back to nature - to let her learn to live alone until she might find her pride - her real pride?