Surrender Quotes
Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real food for a poet: other poems, not meat loaf.
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.
That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender.
Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.
True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
My men don't surrender. I don't want to hear of any soldier under my command being captured unless he has been hit. Even if you are hit, you can still fight back.
Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.
The German air offensives against British cities in World Wars I and II not only failed to coerce the United Kingdom to surrender, but Germany also lost both wars.
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
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.
We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes.
Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.
A key to everything is surrender - to really come before the Lord and say, 'I will literally stay here as long as you want me to stay' or 'God, I will really go anywhere on the earth.'
The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.
You will learn to enjoy the process... and to surrender your need to control the result. You will discover the joy of practising your creativity. The process, not the product, will become your focus.
Your wisest moments will be those when you say yes to God.
The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region.
The more willing you are to surrender to the energy within you, the more power can flow through you.
Love is the first step towards the divine, surrender is the last. And two steps is the whole journey.
There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.
The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
Redemption is promised at the low price of surrender of your critical faculties.
Stop, open up, surrender the beloved blind silence. Stay there until you see you're looking at the light with infinite eyes.
The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination
The elixir of life, the philosopher's stone is yours if you surrender sterile logic, trivial reason.
Surrender is a gift that you can give yourself. It's an act of faith. It's saying that even though I can't see where this river is flowing, I trust it will take me in the right direction.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely; and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they will only take care of themselves.
The moment you surrender to love and allow it to lead you to exactly where your soul wants to go, you will have no difficulty.
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.