Relinquishing Quotes

• Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Responsibility, Power, Next

  "Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches".

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• If you want to reach a state of Bliss - make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved and the need to judge.

  Deepak Chopra

  Judging, Decision, Ego

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• We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

  George Orwell

  Power, Intention, 1984 Important

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.354, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

  Seneca the Younger

  Letting Go, Time, Future

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• Have the courage to speak your mind and tell the truth from a position of love rather than anger or fear, being open to accept the views of others without feeling threatened or defeated, relinquishing the ego's need to be in control by demonstrating the willingness to do whatever it takes to establish peace.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Views, Speak Your Mind, Ego

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Apr 22, 2013

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• When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

  Nicole Kidman

  Happiness, Wisdom, Future

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Dec 14, 2016

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• We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world.

  Kjell Magne Bondevik

  Vision, World, Humane Society

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• Today I will simply accept. I will relinquish the need to be in resistance to myself and my environment in any way. I will move forward in joy by accepting where I am right now.

  Melody Beattie

  Moving On, Moving Forward, Joy

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• If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It's very important to be aware of them every time they come up.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Happiness, Time

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• Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.

  Ulrich Beck

  Loss, Lost Friendship, Doe

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• Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Birthday, Peace, Age

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.19, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• When we pray, we don't change the world, we change ourselves.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Prayer, World, Praying

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• If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue.

  Deepak Chopra

  Ego, Want, Bliss

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• As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

  Anthony Trollope

  Happiness, This Life, Compatible

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Rachel Ray: Trollope's Works”, p.322, 谷月社

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• Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Fear, Real, Grateful

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• "No" is a word that must never be negotiated, because the person who chooses not to hear it is trying to control you... Declining to hear "no" is a signal that someone is either seeking control or refusing to relinquish it.

  Gavin de Becker

  Choices, Abuse, Trying

  Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company

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• In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Movie, Progress, Evening

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• To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

  Naomi Wolf

  Body Image, Sexuality, Asks

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• If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.

  Jean Cocteau

  Comfort, Asceticism, Height

  Jean Cocteau (1990). “Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure”, Peter Owen Publishers

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• the voluntary relinquishing of responsibility for our lives and our actions is one of the greatest enemies of our time.

  Genesis P-Orridge

  Responsibility, Enemy, Our Actions

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• I think that the older I get and the more comfortable I get with myself, the more I realize that art is about relinquishing control of your emotions and being vulnerable and innocent.

  K. D. Lang

  Art, Thinking, Emotion

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• In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that please us while relinquishing things that do not matter to us. A lukewarm yearning for awakening is not enough to sustain us through the difficulties involved in letting go. It is important to understand that anything that can be lost was never truly ours, anything that we deeply cling to only imprisons us.

  Jack Kornfield

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Important

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• The relinquishing of the lesser is the gaining of the greater. Give up all and you gain all.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Giving Up, Gains, Greater

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• We are dominated on this planet by a fear-based rather than a love-based thought system. Enlightenment involves relinquishing the thought system based on fear and instead accepting a thought system based on love.

  Marianne Williamson

  Enlightenment, Accepting, Planets

  "A Conversation with Marianne Williamson: Powerful pioneer in new thought and spirituality". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There is a theology to gardening that few of us consider, but to understand this theology means relinquishing much control - our arsenal of books, techniques, tools, chemicals, fertilizers, fancy hybrids, and expectations. Yet, that is exactly what we must do if we are to fully embrace a more spiritual form of gardening. As a part of Nature we must learn to enter our garden as if it were truly sacred, we must learn to enter with humility.

  Christopher McDowell

  Spiritual, Book, Learning

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