Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children,… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
I have learned a new form of service from the wars of Frederick, king of Prussia. It is not necessary to approach… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Humanly speaking, it is possible to understand the Sermon on the Mount in a thousand different ways. But Jesus knows only one… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“And it will be a great boon to your friend. He’ll get the security he’s been searching for, the confidence he never… — Lydia Michaels Copy Share Image
Unchaste abandon and the self-surrender of the soul to the world of sensuality paralyzes the primordial powers of the moral person: the… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
There's a big difference in Trump and previous Republicans. They have a strategy known as surrender. When the media starts coming after… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I'm astounded whenever I finish something. Astounded and distressed. My perfectionist instinct should inhibit me from finishing: it should inhibit me from… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
You wrote me a beautiful letter, I wonder if you meant it to be as beautiful as it was. I think you… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
So, The Color Purple changed my life. It changed everything about my life because, in that moment of praying and letting go,… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“The boxes stood there, judging her. Who came up with the names for these things? Early Pregnancy Test was fine, but First… — Julia Kent Copy Share Image
“ANY REAL CHANGE IMPLIES THE breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“You turned on?" He asked. "Yes." "If I do anything that changes that, you let me know." I nodded. "I didn't hear… — C.D. Reiss Copy Share Image
“Even in sin, the act of love -done with love- is shadowed with divinity. Its conformity may be at fault, but its… — Morris L. West Copy Share Image
Every play is rhythmic control. If you want an audience to go on a journey, it's rhythmic control. You're crafting when they… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
The ethical regime [of the Jews] was quite definitely Ptolemaic, revolving around the small group of Jews, not the larger Gentile group… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
Jesus didn’t die to keep us safe. He died to make us dangerous. Faithfulness is not holding the fort. It’s storming the… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
Transitions are a part of life, allowing for perpetual renewal. When you experience the end of one chapter, allow yourself to feel… — David Simon Copy Share Image
I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating,… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody. And this is because the most powerful… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“Alexa, I have never been more alive in all these years than I am right now, with you.” He paused, second-guessing himself,… — Trina M. Lee Copy Share Image
“surrender is the glad and voluntary acknowledgment that there is a God and it is not me. His purposes are often wiser… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way.… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
But surrender also means your back's to the wall and saying, "Okay, I give up." But rather it's a joyful self-offering. When… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
The way to a beautiful, strong, healthy body is to start by trusting yourself right now. Let go of the struggle and… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Wishing you happiness always! Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As… — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
...people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
When I allow myself to feel all my feelings instead of numbing myself to them, they pass more quickly. I spent my… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
“I don’t know why we fight. It takes much too effort to stay mad at you. To dodge your skin in the… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
How, then, shall a Christian bear fruit? By efforts and struggles to obtain that which is freely given; by meditations on watchfulness,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I am a man of peace. I am longing and working and praying for peace, but I will not surrender the safety… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
There are three ways in which a man becomes a slave. He may be born into slavery, or forced into it, or… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
While the game of deadlocks and bottle-necks goes on, another more serious game is also being played. It is governed by two… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To all who suffer- to all who feel discouraged, worried, or lonely- I say with love and deep concern for you, never… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Are you saying I should run after her?” “Crawl, actually, if I were you,” recommended Aral. “Crawl fast. Slither under her door,… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“Many times I have walked the road in the solemn hush of a winter’s snowfall. And it seems that the inexpressible peace… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
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