586 Quotes About Surrender

If you trust yourself you will need yourself to sustain yourself, but if you trust the Lord the Lord takes full responsibility of sustaining you.

People should know when they are conquered, OJ used to say when he would pin me to the floor and tickle me until I couldn't tell whether I was laughing or crying. There is nothing you can do, give it up, it's easier that way, OJ would say. You can't win, so just let go, he said once when I said I wanted to punch my father in the face,

People should know when they are conquered, OJ used to say when he would pin me to the floor and tickle me until I couldn't tell whether I was laughing or crying. There is nothing you can do, give it up, it's easier that way, OJ would say. You can't win, so just let go, he said once when I said I wanted to punch my father in the face.

Soon madness has worn you down. It’s easier to do what it says than argue. In this way, it takes over your mind. You no longer know where it ends and you begin. You believe anything it says. You do what it tells you, no matter how extreme or absurd. If it says you’re worthless, you agree. You plead for it to stop. You promise to behave. You are on your knees before it, and it laughs.

I do nothing for any one in the world but you. But for you I'll do anything.""Good, good," said Kate. "That's how I like you."He waited again an instant. "Then you swear to it?""To 'it'? To what?""Why, that you do 'like' me. For it's only for that, you know, that I'm letting you do—well, God knows what with me.

Life is riotously oblivious to the concept of ‘giving up’. Rather, it’s only the forlorn muse of our frightened intellect that causes us to ‘pack it up’ when life is ‘picking it up’.

Because a door slammed shut, we assume that our dreams were slammed shut with it. Yet before we surrender to a closed door, it might be wise to take a moment and consider the fact that any dream is far too big not to have a couple of back doors.

I wonder if pain comes from surrendering or resisting?

Discouragement is the cancer of great things.