Surrender Quotes - Page 7

• Don't surrender to the dying light; don't take it lying down.

  Christopher Cross

  Lying, Light, Dying

  "Interview With Christopher Cross Upon Release Of New Album 'Doctor Faith'". CBS-FM Interview, kearth101.cbslocal.com. June 28, 2011.

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• Never surrender, it's all about the faith that you got.

  Tupac Shakur

  Inspirational, Thug Life, Never Surrender

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  Love is a flower that blooms so tender, each kiss a dew drop of sweet surrender. Love is a moment of life enchanting, let's take that moment that tonight is granting.

  Dean Martin

  Romantic, Sweet, Flower

  Song: There's No Tomorrow

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• Love can be so heartless when you turn out the light, a mutual surrender in the heat of the night.

  Donny Osmond

  Sex, Night, Light

  Song: Soldier Of Love

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• When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live for. All forms of dedication, devotion, loyalty and self-surrender are in essence a desperate clinging to something which might give worth and meaning to our futile, spoiled lives.

  Eric Hoffer

  Loyalty, Dedication, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1951). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, New York : Harper

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• It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

  Ben Stein

  Motivational, Perseverance, Spirit

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• Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Moments, Present Moment

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• You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight.

  Neil Peart

  Prayer, Fighting, Winning

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• Warriors fear surrender. They are proud and defiant. They will fight to the death for what they believe in. They will struggle to conquer. Love is not about conquest. The truth is a man can only find true love when he surrenders to it. When he opens his heart to the partner of his soul and says: 'here it is! the very essence of me! It is yours to nurture or destroy.

  David Gemmell

  Believe, Struggle, Heart

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• To the extent that this world surrenders its richness and diversity, it surrenders its poetry; to the extent that it relinquishes its capacity to surprise, it relinquishes its music; to the extent that it loses its ability to tolerate ridiculous and even dangerous exceptions, it loses its grace.

  Tom Robbins

  Diversity, Grace, World

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• Every noble impulse, every unselfish expression of love, every surrender of self to something higher than self, every loyalty to an ideal, every fine courage of the soul – by doing good for good’s sake – that is spirituality. –

  David O. McKay

  Loyalty, Self, Expression

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• Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or friends. We can assist them, pray for them, and wish them well, yet in the end their happiness and suffering depend on their thoughts and actions, not on our wishes.

  Jack Kornfield

  Children, Suffering, Wish

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• God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; enjoying one moment at a time; accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; that I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him forever in the next. Amen.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Inspirational, Courage, Differences

  "Serenity Prayer". Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr, www.beliefnet.com. 1951.

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• Listening to something is an act of surrender.

  Brian Eno

  Listening

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• Psychic health depends on orgastic potency, i.e., upon the degree to which one can surrender to and experience the climax of excitation in the natural sexual act. It is founded upon the healthy character attitude of the individual's capacity for love. Psychic illnesses are the result of a disturbance of the natural capacity for love.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Attitude, Health, Character

  Wilhelm Reich (1973). “The Discovery of the Orgone”

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• There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance implies only ignorance that may someday be conquered. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

  Isaac Asimov

  Ignorance, May, Today

  "The 'Threat' Of Creationism" by Isaac Asimov, www.nytimes.com. June 14, 1981.

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• Hurry not a woman's favor; neither forcer her hastily to surrender to thee. For she goeth into love as she goeth into the waters at the seashore; first a hand and then a lip goeth she in by littles. She diveth not, she leapeth not from the pier; but by gentle shocks and cries of protest she entereth slowly; yet when the waters of love encompass her, then she is supported. She swimmeth in her joy; she floateth on the tide of happiness.

  Gelett Burgess

  Love, Women, Hands

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• Leave the caves of being. Come. The mind breathes outside the mind. The time has come to abandon your lodgings. Surrender to the Universal Thought. The Marvelous is at the root of the mind.

  Antonin Artaud

  Roots, Mind, Caves

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.103, Univ of California Press

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• It is not enough ... simply to surrender oneself brainlessly to love, when it knocks at the door, one must also calculate because of later life, which does sometimes follow.

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Doors, Doe, Sometimes

  Elfriede Jelinek, Martin Chalmers (1994). “Women as Lovers”, p.32, Profile Books

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• Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love.

  Bernard Lonergan

  Intelligent, Demand, Spirit

  Bernard J. F. Lonergan (1990). “Method in Theology”, p.268, University of Toronto Press

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• It's important to discuss ideas but it's more important to surrender control and preconceptions.

  Judith Schaechter

  Ideas, Important, Preconceptions

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• Love is the possibility of possibilities. Its farthest reach is beyond us, no matter how long we love or how much. It will always remain the mute mystery to whose ecstasy and ache we can only surrender with a yes.

  David Richo

  Love, Long, Matter

  David Richo (2002). “How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving”, p.1, Shambhala Publications

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• We must now surrender to the obligation to understand and to care. We must surrender ourselves to becoming conscious, thinking members of the human race. We must put down the temptation to powerlessness and surrender to the questions of the moment.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Knowledge, Thinking, Race

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• Religion exalts mystery as an unknowable secret that must be sealed in glass like the corpse of an enchanted princess and fearfully worshipped from afar. Initiation, on the other hand, requires direct participation and demands each of us to smash the casket and press mad lips to mystery, wooing her as a lover who will offer up her treasurers in a succession of sweet surrenders. This she will do, but only in exact ratio to our evolving ability and worthiness to receive them.

  Lon Milo DuQuette

  Sweet, Princess, Glasses

  Lon Milo DuQuette (2012). “The Sons of Osiris: A Side Degree: Magical Antiquarian, A Weiser Books Collection”, p.6, Weiser Books

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• Surrender yourselves then to be led and disposed of just as God pleases, with respect both to your outward and inward state.

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

  Inward, States, Please

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon (1804). “The Exemplary Life of the Pious Lady Guion”, p.458

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