#surrender

This act of total surrender is not merely a fantastic intellectual and mystical gamble; it is something much more serious. It is an act of love for this unseen person, who, in the very gift of love by which we surrender ourselves to his reality also makes his presence known to us. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#love

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. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#romance #surrender #love

To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you revisit it, analyze it, regret it, or sweat it…it’s over. It can hurt you no more. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#letting-go-of-the-past #living-in-the-moment #living-in-the-past #living-in-the-present #moving-on

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

— William Booth

#his #man #measure #power #surrender

The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me. ↗

— Bede Griffiths

#came #experience #flowed #had #i

We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same time. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#cultural #governing #health #living #losing

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. ↗

— Vince Lombardi

#surrender #work #you

You're going to have to surrender a little bit to the contrivance of how Freddy and Jason get together. ↗

— Robert Englund

#contrivance #freddy #get #get together #going

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#could #ride #surrendered #you

There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender. ↗

— Peter Pace

#been #between #forces #going #ground