I tend to be really pragmatic, but ultimately tend to be attracted to people who pull me into more spontaneity. I've really learned that, through surrender, the best experiences of my life have happened.
There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
We must be capable of speaking a language of peace, but not one of surrender.
Surrender yourself to God and be at peace with him.
One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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.
Relaxation is one of the most complex phenomena - very rich, multidimensional. All these things are part of it: let-go, trust, surrender, love, acceptance, going with the flow, union with existence, egolessness, ecstasy. All these are part of it, and all these start happening if you learn the ways of relaxation.
Redemption is promised at the low price of surrender of your critical faculties.
If the life we live in this world is wholly for Christ, it is a life of daily surrender.
You have to surrender to the energy above and below.
There is no separate art of life. If you know how to allow poetry, if you know how to allow dance, if you know how to allow love - if you know how to ALLOW, then you know the art of life. In the allowing, in the let-go, in the surrender, is the art of life. How not to be and to let God be - that is the only art of life.
Unfortunately, for the vast majority of us, a vast majority of the time, we surrender our true autonomy to this illusion of agency. I'm as guilty as anybody, and I write about it in a book. I'm not condemning anybody.
The ultimate act of power is surrender.
Those who work the hardest are the last to surrender.
Ask God for the grace to live for Him and continue to live in Him. Right now, surrender it all to Him.
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.
Jesus wanted far more than to be accepted into one's life. He wanted to take over, and his essential call was to trust him enough to surrender one's entire being to him.
My staff was unanimous in believing that Japan was on the point of collapse and surrender.
Never despair. Never surrender.
I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence, I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.