Giving Up Control Quotes

• The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

  Alice Walker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

  Rob Bell

  Loving Someone, Desire, Serious

  Rob Bell (2010). “Sex God”, p.70, Harper Collins

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• Love is giving up control. It’s surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two—love and controlling power over the other person—are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

  Rob Bell

  Sex, Giving Up, Love Is

  Rob Bell (2010). “Sex God”, p.70, Harper Collins

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• The spiritual in my art is giving up control. My paintings are based on what I can do, and what I can do is not controlled. So I give up control, and that's the spiritual aspect of the work - taking what comes and relinquishing control. Although they look very controlled, they're really not, because it's all poured paint.

  Pat Steir

  Spiritual, Art, Giving Up

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When we give of ourselves, our time, and our money, we're also giving up control. As a control freak myself, I know that sounds scary, but I've learned that the momentary lack of control forces me to look at what I do have and truly count my blessings. I have clean drinking water. I have food on my table. I have a roof over my head and clothes on my back. Suddenly, my panic-stricken mindset is replaced with gratitude.

  Jen Lilley

  Gratitude, Giving Up, Drinking

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• Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.

  William S. Burroughs

  Giving Up, Special, Way

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.179, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Giving up control and just trying to be happy at the moment has proven to be the best thing for me.

  Taya Kyle

  Giving Up, Trying, Moments

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• but accepting help doesn‟t have to mean giving up control.

  Sarah Dessen

  Giving Up, Mean, Helping

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.123, Penguin

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• The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.

  Terence McKenna

  Giving Up, People, Drug

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