Surrender Quotes

Richard Paul Evans

Often times, the greatest peace comes of surrender.

Mandy Hale

No matter how much you stress or obsess about the past or future, you can't change either one. In the present is where your power lies.

Roman Payne

She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She
She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.

Roman Payne

You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in
You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.

Roman Payne

I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didn’t care about money, only experiences - whether they came from wealth or from poverty, it was all the same to her.

Roman Payne

She called herself Europa, and wandered the world from girlhood till death. She believed only in her life and in her dreams. She called herself Europa, and her god was Beauty.

Jefferson Smith

There is no such thing as helplessness. It's just another word for giving up.

Anna White

My fear of being real, of being seen, paralyzes me into silence. I crave the touch and the connection, but I’m not always brave enough to open my hand and reach out. This is the great challenge: to be seen, accepted, and loved, I must first reveal, offer, and surrender.

Walt Whitman

I like the scientific spirit - the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine - it always keeps the way beyond open - always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake - after a wrong guess.

Mandy Hale

The more you go with the flow of life and surrender the outcome to God, and the less you seek constant clarity, the more you will find that fabulous things start to show up in your life.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.

Karen Hackel

You need to trust
To surrender
To ask for guidance
Go within for the answers
They're within you
You have the answers
All you need do is ask

Mary E. DeMuth

Growth comes from God, to those with surrendered, yielded hearts.

George Alexiou

What is given to you is what is needed; what you want, requires giving up what you don't need.

Anthony Liccione

The more material we lose, the less we have. The less we have, the more we win.

Oscar Wilde

He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.

Henry Miller

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

Thomas Merton

Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in a sermon.

Mandy Hale

There is never a moment when God is not in control. Relax! He’s got you covered.

E'yen A. Gardner

We must surrender ourselves to God, not our assignments.

Alain De Botton

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

Tad Williams

You are only a prisoner when you surrender.

Molly Friedenfeld

When we are unable to change an event that has already been written in the stars, we are always presented the opportunity to surrender to the heart and find a new pathway to peace. Understanding Divine Reason allows us to honor God’s Divine Plan.

Elisabeth Elliot

One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.

Abraham Lincoln

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

Eugenia Price

if someone has just hurt you or broken your heart, if someone has just died, all the grace you need is there-waiting for you to receive it. As long as we are pulled inward-despair and self attention, we aren't free to reach for God's grace. If we mean to leave ourselves alone, we must keep a hand free.

Sarah Thebarge

I just want to tell you if that's what You have planned for me, if I am meant to be an obscure flower in the corner of the expansive garden, I will live there and I will love You and I will bloom just for You - only, always, ever.

Bryant McGill

Don't run from your pain - run into your pain.

Bryant McGill

Act as though everything will be perfectly fine - because it will. Life has you and it's not letting you go.

Alisa Hope Wagner

Surrender is the only path to supernatural living.

Bryant McGill

The master tools of success are invitation, patience, time, gentleness, cooperation and surrender.

Bryant McGill

Evolve your understanding of success from the outer realm of control, materialism, and ego, to the inner realm of surrender, spirituality, and compassion.

Roman Payne

With her enchanting songs, her rare beauty, and clever tricks, this wild 'wanderess' ensnared my soul like a gypsy-thief, and led me foolish and blind to where you find me now. The first time I saw her, fires were alight. It was a spicy night in Barcelona. The air was fragrant and free.

Shannon A. Thompson

Tomorrow can take me,” he said. “I don’t need today anyway.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

You want something real bad? Go after it with ferocity like if your life depended on it and never ever surrender. Only a question of time.

Swami Dhyan Giten

I remember sitting and meditating beside a slow flowing river in India, and I got the feeling that this river could teach me all the secrets of the mystery of life. If we learn to surrender to a stone, a flower, to a man, to a woman, or a river, it becomes a door to the Whole.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Surrender is a choice, it is never a calling.

Bryant McGill

The fearful person wilts and submits to what they call fate. The fearless negotiates with fate for a compromise.

Hal Tipper

Letting go is the willingness to change your beliefs in order to bring more peace and joy into your life instead of holding onto beliefs that bring pain and suffering…

Nikki Sex

Fear, anxiety, arousal, and pain; all are emotions and sensations. They are neither right, nor are they wrong; good nor bad. They are simply passions, a most important part of life. Feel them, fully experience them, surrender to them, and learn to accept them. As a submissive, you must let go. André Chevalier

Michael Bassey Johnson

Possession is not only when the devil plays hide and seek in your brain or poison your medula oblongata with negativity, but it is also when you are under the influence of the same specie as you!

S. J. Kincaid

They'd taken everything. Everything, and people simply had let them. People had meekly surrendered the world to them in hopes those CEOs would finally have enough, finally have reason to leave them be. But Tom knew better.

Anthony Liccione

Life is very tough and fragile at the same time, it never backs down or surrenders, but will break open to reveal its beauty and ugliness. As a evening primrose that blooms in the flooding moonlight, just before being trampled upon underfoot by the four-legged frost of the night.

Katie J. Davis

I would like to say that I had all kinds of great ideas about what I wanted to do and how I wanted to do it. I would like to say my ministry was born out of a carefully thought-out plan. These things simply aren't true, though. I was walking through life one moment at a time, blown away by what God could do through me if I simply said yes.

Aaron W. Matthews

I am simply not enough in myself, but in Him I am. This surrender is not weakness, but the only true measure of strength any of us have.

Alisa Hope Wagner

God's glory in our lives has little to do with our sacrifice and everything to do with our surrender.

Rick Warren

Your wisest moments will be those when you say yes to God.

Idries Shah

From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone.

Nenia Campbell

You will not mock me - and you will let me finish. I have owned and lost a kingdom, and I have battled death. I have been through all that, and I will not chase after you like some lovesick poet spouting verse. If you wish to call me yours, then you will have to act as if you are mine. On the front of surrender, there is no middle ground.

Nikki Rowe

Don't hold on too long;to which does not belong,
Don't shed a tear; for all the pain that's gone,
Create a new;from the wisdom of the past,
Open your heart wider, as storms do not last.

Stephanie Laurens

I have a request to make,my lord."
He held her gaze; she could see him trying to decide what she might ask, but eventually he surrendered."And that is?"
"Take me to your bed.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Some people tend to throw your love to the dogs when you become totally submissive to
Some people tend to throw your love to the dogs when you become totally submissive to them, but when you want to get out of the heat, they pull you back into the kitchen.

Tite Kubo

We should not shed tears.
That is a surrender of the body to the heart.
It is only proof
That we are beings that do not know
What to do with our hearts

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Miracles can only inhabit the reality of our awareness when we surrender our need for the familiar to our desire for the limitless.

Deepak Chopra

If all of the steps of surrender are present, then a great Rembrandt or Monet will evoke love because the artist is simply there in all his naked humanity.

Michael Bassey Johnson

I don't judge or believe in any religion, I'm just learning from their divine esoteric stories.

Danielle Boonstra

A surrendered day is a good day.

Donna Lynn Hope

I wonder if pain comes from surrendering or resisting?

Bryant McGill

To heal, you have to give yourself to the pain. You cannot avoid facing yourself your whole life.

Bryant McGill

Submit to your pain; don't suppress your pain.

Bryant McGill

Accepting our pain is a way to say we treasure the sacred gift of life - run to your pain.

Mandy Hale

The things we don’t stress tend to turn out best. Trust and let go.

Danielle Boonstra

Our peace comes from remembering our wholeness and that the end of desire is the beginning of a life filled with Light.

Jeffrey Lang

You cannot simply read the Quran,not if you take it seriously.You either have surrendered to it already or you fight it.
It attacks tenaciously,directly,personally; it debates,criticizes,shames and challenges.
From the outset it draws the line of battle, and I was on other side.

Edmond Mbiaka

If things haven't been moving favorably on your side, then, tomorrow is another day to try again with a different approach. Never dare to surrender your goals. Your destiny desperately needs you.

Nenia Campbell

Subjugation requires vigilance; if you relax your brutality even for a moment, the people you're oppressing will revolt at the first sign of weakness. That's why dictatorial regimes are always a slippery slope of cruelty doomed to end in failure.

Nikki Rowe

The greatest disaster of self; comes not with experience of failure, but the fear gained belief; about what you think you cannot achieve

Kelly Martin

You'll be ready for this change - when you're ready – not a moment before. Don't beat yourself up if you're not ready.

Enock Maregesi

Toa msamaha kwa waliokukosea kwa sababu dhambi zilizofanya mkosane zilitoka kwa Shetani.

Todd Stocker

In order to pick something up, you've got to put something down.

William Booth

The greatness of the man's power is the measure of his surrender.

Jennifer Lynch

464Joy is found in the breath of acceptance knowing that all is well in our world, if we surrender with grace.

Laura Gentile

Their raspy kisses brand our jam tart necks, their treacherous miasma clasps our herbal thighs. Motherlessly we surrender, too many fathers we have, we, your daughters of joy.

Roman Payne

I know a girl from whose body sunbeams rose to the clouds as if they’d fallen from the sun.
Her laugh was like a bangle of bells.
“Your hair is wet,” I told her one day, “Did you take a bath?”
“It is dew!” she laughed, “I’ve been lying in the grass. All morning long, I lay here waiting for the dawn.

Laraine Herring

Writing is both an act of power and surrender. Passion and discovery. It is a tug at your soul that continues to pull you forward, even as you go kicking and screaming.” (p.18)

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