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Quotes About Relinquishment

Fear', the doctor said, 'is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.
~ Shirley Jackson
Das ist zu viel, dachte sie, ich leiste Verzicht auf dieses Selbst, danke ab, gebe freiwillig ab, was ich sowieso nie haben wollte; was es auch von mir will, kann es haben.
~ Shirley Jackson
Fear is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.
~ Shirley Jackson
Fear, is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishment of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.
~ Shirley Jackson
Fear is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield it or we fight it, but we cannot meet at half way.
~ Shirley Jackson
Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.
~ Shirley Jackson
Yet no suffering befalls whoever relinquishes justice and truth, whereas the party system has painful penalties to chastise insubordination. These
~ Simone Weil
I would like to forget everything, to forget myself and to forget the world.
~ Emil Cioran
To live in solitude means to relinquish all expectations about life. The only surprise in solitude is death.
~ Emil M. Cioran
Capii che io non ero il centro del mondo. La quota di sofferenze nella vita non variava certo in rapporto a me. Non ero io che potevo decidere. Allora, pensai, tanto valeva godersi, per quanto possibile, il resto.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
We can face whatever comes once we have relinquished our lives and the lives of our loved ones to Him. He is the God we can trust for strength each day. He is the One with all the love and understanding, who has a clear and eternal purpose for us.
~ Barbara Johnson
My hardest thing was to let go, to be happy for everybody and just to enjoy. And go back to being what you were before you became an artist, and that was just a fan.
~ Garth Brooks
That thing in my box? he said. Has nothing to do with me.
~ George Saunders
Lord, I am willing To receive what You give. To lack what You withhold. To relinquish what You take, To suffer what You inflict, To be what you require.
~ Gerald Bridges
Liberation, whether experienced pleasurably or painfully, always involves relinquishment, some kind of loss.
~ Gerald G. May
THIS IS A TIME IN YOUR LIFE WHEN YOU MUST LEARN TO LET GO: of loved ones, of possessions, of control. In order to let go of something that is precious to you, you need to rest in My Presence, where you are complete.
~ Sarah Young
If you're away from your house for a month, by the time you come back there's someone else living in it.
~ Bill Burr
Renunciation is submission to time.
~ Simone Weil
Credo di essere più bravo ad abbandonarle le cose che a rubarle.
~ Markus Zusak
he had to give up the firm to his partners.
~ Atul Gawande
Thomas Hutchinson observed: "Power, once acquired, is seldom voluntarily parted with.
~ Stacy Schiff
Sometimes the choices others make take ours from us. Do you understand?
~ Mary Calmes, Trusted Bond
The hardest thing is to give up something you love, for the sake of Allah. But remember Allah never takes without giving something better.
~ Bilal Philips
I claim no right to myself, no right to this understanding, this will, these affections that are in me. Neither do I have any right to this body or its members, no right to this tongue, to these hands, feet, ears or eyes. I have given myself clear away and not retained anything of my own.
~ Jonathan Edwards