“Don’t despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don’t – surrender to events with hope.”
― Alain de Botton
Category Archives: SURRENDER
Music is my life But some people call it noise I love listening. Patricia (U.S.A.)
http://www.creative-writing-now.com/haiku-poems.html
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“In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it’s wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
“To hold, you must first open your hand. Let go”. Lao Tzu
http://sillysutras.com/surrender-quotes/
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Nightfall, Dalat, Vietnam
Dusk slides down the gullet,
is devoured whole
by the mouth of transience,
does not exist:
the day, requited,
is clasped by ebony fingers,
surrenders smooth to waiting dark.
David Adès
How did you get here? Close your eyes and surrender.
~ Rumi
“At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.
~Lane Olinghouse
http://www.gadel.info/2011/07/temptation-quotes-sayings-and-proverbs.html
“Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things… I am tempted to think… there are no little things.”
Bruce Barton
He talked with more claret than clarity.
susan ertz
“How do I feel today? I feel as unfit as an unfiddle,
And it is the result of a certain turbulence in the mind and an uncertain burbulence in the middle.
What was it, anyway, that angry thing that flew at me?
I am unused to banshees crying Boo at me.
Your wife can’t be a banshee—
Or can she?”
― Ogden Nash, Private Dining-room and Other New Verses
In the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given strength to continue and endure.
“Your weaknesses are the key to the unimaginable bigger future that God has envisioned for you. Your strengths are probably already bearing all the fruit they can. They will continue to bear those good fruits in your life, but at some point they will begin to plateau. Your richer, more abundant future is intimately linked to your weaknesses.”
― Matthew Kelly
I wonder if pain comes from surrendering or resisting?”
― Donna Lynn Hope
Temptations are as thick as the leaves of the forest, and no one can be out of the reach of temptation unless he is dead. The great thing is to make people intelligent enough and strong enough, not to keep away from temptation, but to resist it.
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL, “How to Reform Mankind,” Works
Honour to the vanquished.
“The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
Prayer comes through grace, and grace comes through surrender.
― Art Hochberg
“And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.”
― Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow: Three Essential Prayers
“Common people do not pray; they only beg.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Misalliance
Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
Doris Lessing.
The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.”
― Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven
“Suddenly I came out of my thoughts to notice everything around me again-the catkins on the willows, the lapping of the water, the leafy patterns of the shadows across the path. And then myself, walking with the alignment that only comes after miles, the loose diagonal rhythm of arms swinging in synchronization with legs in a body that felt long and stretched out, almost as sinuous as a snake…when you give yourself to places, they give you yourself back; the more one comes to know them, the more one seeds them with the invisible crop of memories and associations that will be waiting for when you come back, while new places offer up new thoughts, new possibilities. Exploring the world is one the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
― Bruce Lee
“I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn’t thrill me at all. So, tell me why should it be true, that I get a kick out of you?”
― Frank Sinatra
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
Keep it simple, surrender, admit defeat, abandon all destructive forces, form new beliefs, heighten your strength of mind, be honest and open-minded, willing, faithful, and hopeful.
“When a man’s dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama.” ― Mark Twain
“In advance of the dogs, on wide snowshoes, toiled a man. At the rear of the sled toiled a second man. On the sled, in the box, lay a third man whose toil was over – a man whom the Wild had conquered and beaten down until he would never move nor struggle again.”
― Jack London, White Fang
“I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it’s due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don’t have to do it often.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
“Politeness is a sign of dignity, not subservience.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
“Time to paint your butt white and run with antelope-in English- Stop arguing and do as you’re told.”
― Charles Martin, Chasing Fireflies
If a drop of that wine would drip into the Nile
The crocodile would be drunken for hundred years by its smell
If the antelope in the dessert would drink a drop of it
It would become a roaring lion and wouldn’t think about the leopard”
― Rūdakī
hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic. ― Van Morrison
“I guess it’s going to have to hurt, I guess I’m going to have to cry, And let go of some things I’ve loved to get to the other side
I guess it’s going to break me down, Like falling when you try to fly,
Sad but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life starts with goodbye”
― Carrie Underwood
The way sadness works is one of the strangest riddles of the world.
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid
“I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been – if you’ve been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you – you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
He felt empty, broken, defeated.
Pamela Clare, Breaking Point
“Remember who you are. When you encounter things you think you can’t deal with, remember all the things you have dealt with before. Remember all your triumphs and all the times you overcame defeat. Remember who you are and use that strength to raise your head high, win or lose”
Gamal Hennessy
He didn’t know what was defeating him, but he sensed it was something he could not cope with, something that was far beyond his power to control or even at this point in time comprehend.
Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream
“I feel just, you know, defeated. ”
Nic Sheff, Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines
But all the love in the world won’t save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard.
― Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye
“God is at the helm even when you think your ship is sinking. Just keep trusting that the captain knows more about where you’re heading than you do, and eventually you’ll get where you need to be.”
Kevin Alan Milne
“I would be unfair to myself if I said I did not try. I did, even if desultorily. But desire is a curious thing. If it does not exist it does not exist and there is nothing you can do to conjure it up. Worse still, as I discovered, when desire begins to sink, like a capsizing ship it takes down a lot with it.
In our case it took down the conversation, the laughter, the sharing, the concern, the dreams and nearly – the most important thing, the most important thing – and nearly the affection too. Soon my sinking desire had taken everything else down with it to the floor of the sea, and only affection remained like the bobbing hand of a drowning man, poised perilously between life and death.Now the epitaph was beginning to creep up on her. Acceptance. ”
Tarun J. Tejpal
Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity.
― Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis
A fight is like a fire. You think you have it under control, you think you can stop it whenever you want, but before you know it, it’s living, breathing thing and there’s no controlling it and you were a fool to think you could.”
Jenny Han, We’ll Always Have Summer
The elixir of life, the philosopher’s stone is yours if you surrender sterile logic, trivial reason.
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "The Walls Do Not Fall.")
The basic surrender is a relaxation, a trust.
Osho.
I shall dream delight Till our souls take flight. Mary Hannay Foott.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this Day.
Sanskrit
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