#surrender

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. ↗

— Marya Hornbacher

#eating-disorder #madness #surrender #voice #worthless

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

— Jefferson Smith

#fantasy #helplessness #hope #persistence #surrender

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender. ↗

— Abba Eban

#first #history #i #i think #morrow

No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

#immediate #immediately #move #other #propose

There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization. ↗

— Brad Henry

#polarization #politics #stake #surrender #too

What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be. ↗

— Ivo Andric

#end #something #surrenders

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

#fulfill #god #know #learn #namely

The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#better #case #cooperation #done #idea

Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#men #must #never #power #surrendered

I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare. ↗

— Andrew Wyeth

#aloud #became #especially #father #history