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• I'd like to rid myself of writing, to surrender, to release the venom. And hopefully at some point, I'll be a happy, well-adjusted guy and I'll have no need for all that 'art.'

  Henry Rollins

  Art, Writing, Guy

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• In landing operations, retreat is impossible, to surrender is as ignoble as it is foolish. above all else remember that we as attackers have the initiative, we know exactly what we are going to do, while the enemy is ignorant of our intentions and can only parry our blows. We must retain this tremendous advantage by always attacking rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, and without rest.

  George S. Patton

  War, Blow, Ignorant

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• Each decision - to kill, to sign a petition, to write a letter, to make a speech, to attack, to lie, to surrender - was made at some point in somebody's day.

  Nicholson Baker

  Lying, Writing, Decision

  "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008.

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• Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness; the nourishment of mind with His truth; the purifying of imagination by His Beauty; the opening of the heart to His love; the surrender of will to His purpose - and all of this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable and therefore the chief remedy for that self-centeredness which is our original sin and the source of all actual sin.

  William Temple

  Heart, Self, Worship Music

  William Temple (1939). “Readings in St. John's Gospel ...”

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• Education has to endow you with an eagerness to surrender.

  Sai Baba

  Educational, Eagerness

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• I wanted to die; I wanted to surrender because I saw no sense in struggling. I felt that nothing would be proved, substantiated, added or subtracted by continuing an existence which I had not asked for.

  Henry Miller

  Crazy, Struggle, Mad

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would.

  John Adams

  Life, Nature, Gun

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.438

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• To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another

  David Lodge

  Curiosity, Desire, Endless

  David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.240, Penguin

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• Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.

  Jim Morrison

  Freedom, People, Parent

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• Life, as we all know, is conflict, and man, being part of life, is himself an expression of conflict. If he recognizes the fact and accepts it, he is apt, despite the conflict, to know peace and to enjoy it. But to arrive at this end, which is only a beginning (for we haven’t begun to live yet!), a man has got to learn the doctrine of acceptance, that is, of unconditional surrender, which is love.

  Henry Miller

  Acceptance, Men, Expression

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.254, New Directions Publishing

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• To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it.

  Kathleen Norris

  Moving, Suffering, Oneself

  Kathleen Norris (1997). “The Cloister Walk”, p.165, Penguin

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• When I try to analyze my own cravings, motives, actions and so forth, I surrender to a sort of retrospective imagination which feeds the analytic faculty with boundless alternatives and which causes each visualized route to fork and re-fork without end in the maddeningly complex prospect of my past.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Past, Imagination, Trying

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.5, Hamilton Books

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• Surrender all thought, emotion, and circumstance to that which is bigger and deeper.
  Surrender your identity. Surrender your suffering to that which is closer than identity,
  deeper than suffering. Do you discover victory or defeat in this surrender?

  Gangaji

  Suffering, Victory, Identity

  Gangaji (2007). “You Are That”, p.96, Sounds True

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• If action is possible or necessary, your action will be in alignment with the whole and supported by creative intelligence, the unconditioned consciousness which in a state of inner openness you become
  one with. Circumstances and people then become helpful, cooperative. Coincidences happen.
  If no action is possible, you rest in the peace and inner stillness that come with surrender.

  Eckhart Tolle

  People, Creative, Action

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.47, Penguin

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• Surrender becomes so much easier when you realize the fleeting nature of all experiences and that the world cannot give you anything of lasting value. You then continue to meet people, to be involved in experience and activities, but without the wants and fears of the egoic self. That is to say, you no longer demand that a situation, person, place, or event should satisfy you or make you happy. It's passing and imperfect nature is allowed to be.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Self, People, Giving

  "Stillness Speaks". Book by Eckhart Tolle, August 26, 2003.

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• The most intoxicating thing about being an actor is to surrender to a story that you never would have come up with.

  Brit Marling

  Stories, Actors, Come Up

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• The slow compromise, or even surrender, of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.

  Leston Havens

  Hope, Normal, Compromise

  Leston Havens (1996). “A Safe Place”, p.86, Harvard University Press

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• Prayer is nothing but that complete surrender, complete oneness with Christ. And this is what makes us contemplative in the heart of the world; for we are twenty-four hours then in His presence: in the hungry, in the naked, in the homeless, in the unwanted, unloved, uncared for. For Jesus said, Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Prayer, Heart

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• I think Obama has redefined the Democratic Party. It used to be the party of acid, amnesty, and abortion, and now it's surrender, socialism, and subprime mortgages.

  Ann Coulter

  Party, Thinking, Abortion

  "Ann Coulter and Pat Caddell on Vice Presidential Debate". "Hannity & Colmes" with Alan Colmes, www.foxnews.com. October 3, 2008.

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• The logical end to defensive warfare is surrender.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Warfare, Logical, Ends

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• Real love doesn't seek to acquire. It gives itself away. Its very nature is that of surrender, service, and generosity.

  Catherine Ingram

  Real, Giving, Generosity

  Catherine Ingram (2004). “Passionate Presence”, p.37, Penguin

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• I have learned a new form of service from the wars of Frederick, king of Prussia. It is not necessary to approach the enemy in order to attack him. In fleeing from him, it is possible to circumvent him as he advances and fall on him from the rear and force him to surrender. What is needed is not to strike straight at evil but to withdraw to the sources of divine power, and from there to circle around evil, bend it and transform it into its opposite.

  Martin Buber

  Kings, War, Fall

  Martin Buber (2002). “Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings”, p.71, Psychology Press

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• When we surrender when we do not fight with life when it calls upon us we are lifted and the strength to do what needs to be done finds us.

  Oriah Dreamer

  Fighting, Needs, Done

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• Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Submissive, Cowardice, Circumstances

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.138, Beacon Press

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• The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, But it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest is on another level altogether, Spiritual wine has a subtler taste. The intellect and the senses investigate cause and effect. The spiritual seeker surrenders to the wonder.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Wine, Intellectual

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.117, Lulu.com

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