#surrender

We rise up And we fall down Only to rise again ↗

— Karen Hackel

#suffering #surrender #life

Love or hatred calls for self-surrender. He cuts a fine figure, the warm-blooded, prosperous man, solidly entrenched in his well-being, who one fine day surrenders all to love—or to hatred; himself, his house, his land, his memories. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#love #orestes #surrender #the-flies #love

Now we cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say there will always be at the back of our minds the idea that if we try harder next time we shall succeed in being completely good. Thus, in one sense, the road back to God is a road of moral effort, of trying harder and harder. But in another sense it is not trying that is ever going tobring us home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at which you turn to God and say, "You must do this. I can't. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#god #surrender #failure

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority. ↗

— Lord Acton

#authority #before #both #country #deny

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#armed #changing #conquest #dominance #exist

I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I'm eating. But on Super Bowl Sunday, I thought, 'Surrender to it. It's nacho time.' Then I ate nothing but Doritos all day. ↗

— Kristen Bell

#almost #ate #because #bowl #calories

The big fun in 'Battleship' is that there are no current battleships in the Navy today. The battleships are about 1,000 feet long and they have huge guns. They were what you saw in WWII. The last battleship that was used was the Missouri, which is what the Japanese surrendered to. ↗

— Peter Berg

#big #current #feet #fun #guns

Surrender the vert platonic bond tying your soul to mine craft, the sky fades a pink shadow cast. ↗

— Bradley Chicho

#cast #craft #fades #mine #pink

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#beaches #cost #defend #fields #fight

My golf is woeful but I will never surrender. ↗

— Bing Crosby

#i #never #never surrender #surrender #will