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• Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender to guilt, but emancipation from guilt.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Suffering, Guilt, Hardest

  Nathaniel Branden (2011). “How to Raise Your Self-Esteem: The Proven Action-Oriented Approach to Greater Self-Respect and Self-Confidence”, p.83, Bantam

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• If we will only surrender ourselves utterly to the Lord, and will trust Him perfectly, we shall find our souls "mounting up with wings as eagles" to the "heavenly places" in Christ Jesus, where earthly annoyances or sorrows have no power to disturb us.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Jesus, Eagles, Wings

  HANNAH WHITALL SMITH (1952). “THE CHRISTIANS SECRET OF A HAPPY LIFE”

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• Attack if you can attack, defend if you can't attack, flee if you can't defend, surrender if you can't flee, die if you can't surrender!

  Sima Yi

  Dies, Ifs

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• When someone is drowning in the ocean of attachments, Surrender is the life jacket they can put on and wait for the rescue team

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Team, Ocean, Attachment

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• As long as you perceive that anyone is holding you back, you have not taken full responsibility for your own liberation. Liberation means that you stand free of making demands on others and life to make you happy. When you discover yourself to be nothing but Freedom, you stop setting up conditions and requirements that need to be satisfied in order for you to be happy. It is in the absolute surrender of all conditions and requirements that Liberation is discovered to be who and what you are. Then the love and wisdom that flows out of you has a liberating effect on others.

  Adyashanti

  Taken, Mean, Responsibility

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• Without modesty, woman is devoid of beauty and culture. Humility, purity of thought and manners, meekness, surrender to high ideals, sensitivity, sweetness of temper - the peculiar blend of all these qualities is modesty. It is the most invaluable of all jewels for women.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Humility, Jewels, Quality

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• Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.

  Vince Lombardi

  Lasts, Miscellaneous

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• ... what will not the heart endure ere it will voluntarily surrender the hoarded treasure of its love to the cold dictates of reason or the stern voice of duty!

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

  Heart, Voice, Treasure

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1841). “The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author”, p.146

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• Plunge into the world, and then, after a time, when you have suffered and enjoyed all that is in it, will renunciation come; then will calmness come. So fulfill your desire for power and everything else, and after you have fulfilled the desire, will come the time when you will know that they are all very little things; but until you have fulfilled this desire, until you have passed through that activity, it is impossible for you to come to the state of calmness, serenity, and self-surrender.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Self, Serenity, Desire

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.45, Manonmani Publishers

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• We must be unafraid to be utterly honest, to honor our gut feelings, and to say and do the unpopular when necessary. We have to give up our addiction to other people's opinions and surrender to the freedom of acting with strength and courage.

  Suzanne Falter-Barns

  Giving Up, Addiction, People

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• We will fight in every valley, in every street, in every oasis, and every town. We won't surrender again; we are not women; we will keep fighting.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Fighting, Oasis, Valleys

  "Gaddafi vows: 'We won't surrender again; we are not women'" by Luke Harding, Julian Borger, www.aljazeera.com. September 1, 2001.

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• Really, one of us ought to have the courage to call the experiment off and shoulder the responsibility for the decision, but the majority reckons that that kind of courage would be a sign of cowardice, and the first step in a retreat. They think it would mean an undignified surrender for mankind as if there was any dignity in floundering and drowning in what we don't understand and never will.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Mean, Responsibility, Thinking

  "Solaris". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. Chapter 11: "The Thinkers", p. 158, 1970.

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• It isn't pleasant to surrender to the hegemony of a nation which is still wild and primitive, and to concede the absolute superiority of its customs and institutions, science and technology, literature and art. Must one sacrifice so much in the name of the unity of mankind?

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Art, Sacrifice, Technology

  "The Captive Mind" by Czeslaw Milosz, as translated by Jane Zielonko, 1990.

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• Commit yourself then to God! He will be your guide. He Himself will travel with you, as we are told He did with the Israelites, to bring them step by step across the desert to the promised land. Ah! what will be your blessedness, if you will but surrender yourself into the hands of God, permitting Him to do whatever He will, not according to your desires, but according to His own good pleasure?

  Francois Fenelon

  Trust, Hands, Land

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.39, Lulu.com

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• I was against it on two counts. First, the Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Awful, Atomic Bomb

  Newsweek, p. 107, November 11, 1963.

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• The only times that we can have what we long for are those moments when we stop grasping for it. At such times, all things are possible: "to a mind that is 'still' the whole universe surrenders".

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Long, Meditation, Mind

  SHELDON B KOPP (1972). “IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS”

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• To experience emotional freedom, we must accept, surrender, and let go of our wounds. We must be willing to take responsibility for what we're holding on to, which is usually a hurt or pain from the past that leaves us feeling victimized.

  Debbie Ford

  Letting Go, Hurt, Pain

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• God offers authentic LOVE. His devotion is the real deal. But He won't give you the genuine until you surrender the imitations.

  Max Lucado

  Real, Giving, Devotion

  Max Lucado (2012). “A Love Worth Giving Deluxe Edition: Living in the Overflow of God's Love”, p.52, Harper Collins

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• I have surrendered to God; therefore I surrender to nothing else.

  E. Stanley Jones

  E. Stanley Jones (1946). “The Way”

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• Never give in, never surrender, Never allow despair to overcome your spirit.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Giving, Despair, Overcoming

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• The beast exists because it is stronger than the thing that you call evolution. In it is some force of life, a demon, driving it through millions of centuries. It does not surrender so easily to weaklings like you and me.

  Martin Berkeley

  Life, Stronger, Monsters

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• Self control is about being in charge of the direction our lives are taking. Now for the paradox: We get control of our lives, ultimately, not by will power but by surrender.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Self, Paradox, Will Power

  Lewis B. Smedes (2002). “A Life of Distinction: What It Takes to Live with Courage, Honesty, and Gratitude”, Shaw

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• Nothing in the world is as fearsome as a bloody, battered opponent who will never surrender.

  Gerry Spence

  World, Opponents, Bloody

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• We do not want an expanding struggle with consequences, that no one can perceive, nor will we bluster or bully or flaunt our power, but we will not surrender and we will not retreat, for
  behind our American pledge lies the determination and resources, I believe, of all of the American nation.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Determination, Lying, Believe

  News Conference, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. July 28, 1965.

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• America has many glories. The last one that she would wish to surrender is the glory of the men who have served her in war. While such devotion lives, the nation is secure. Whatever dangers may threaten from within or without, she can view them calmly. Turning to her veterans, she can say: 'These are our defenders. They are invincible. In them is our safety.'

  Calvin Coolidge

  War, Men, Views

  "America and the War". Speech by Calvin Coolidge, en.wikisource.org. 1920.

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