Surrendering Letting Go Quotes

#1. Surrendering, letting go of possessiveness, and complete nonattachment-all are synonyms for accumulating merit.

Pema Chodron

#2. You work with people who are obsessive about shopping, obsessive about owning things and buying things, like this purchase is going to make them happy. And you want to say to them, 'You know, no amount of real estate is gonna fill that void.'

David LaChapelle

#3. Quit acting like everything is so serious. Most situations aren't as bad as you fear, and those that are might benefit from a little laughter.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#4. To find a good story, you're generally going to find it in independent or lower budget movies ... I wouldn't mind doing a big budget movie if it had a great story.

Viggo Mortensen

#5. During those days of whirling about the globe, I had an epiphany: travel was the only area of my life where I had no expectations. I anticipated nothing while fully engaging each moment. What bred adventure, surprise and deep experience was not knowing, surrendering to now and letting go of control.

Gina Greenlee

#6. Surrendering to Christ is like signing your name to a blank check and letting the Lord put in the amount.

Billy Graham

#7. I grew up with a Christmas tree, I'm going to stay with a Christmas tree.

Thomas Menino

#8. Camp life is demanding, and even the simplest daily routine becomes a chore in a climate with 90 per cent humidity, not to mention the bugs.

Stefanie Powers

#9. The sacred gift of prayer is in the right hand of our Savior, and according to the measure that you empty yourself of yourself, that is of love of your senses and of your own will, and make progress in rooting yourself in holy humility, to that extent the Lord will speak to your heart.

Pio Of Pietrelcina

#10. When we serve the great, they are our destiny.

Mary Renault

#11. Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.

Rita Mae Brown

#12. Do one of three things.One,go find a wailing wall and feel sorry for yourselves.Two,go psycho and start bombing-but this will only swing people to the right.Three,learn a lesson.Go home,organize, build power and at the next convention, you be the delegatepos

Saul D. Alinsky

#13. Enlightenment is not about knowing as much as it is about unknowing; it is not so much learning as unlearning. It is about surrendering and letting go rather than achieving and possessing. It's more about entering the mystery than arriving at a mental certitude.

Richard Rohr

#14. True zazen is surrendering every moment. But surrendering to what? It really does not matter what we call it: God or the Tao or the Dharma or the Buddha or our true nature ... It is the act of letting go, of surrendering, that matters. The very act of letting go opens us up completely.

Dennis Merzel

#15. Pause and remember - Life is a process of surrendering. Make the decision to let go of what no longer serves you or makes you feel good. Know that you are worth more and something better will arrive once you create the space.

Jennifer Young

#16. If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel'

Benjamin Netanyahu

#17. Every time Roscoe tried to think back along the line of events that had led to his being in a place where there was no trees to lean against, he strayed off the line and soon got all tangled up in his thinking. It was probably better not to try and think back down the line of life.

Larry McMurtry

#18. Celebrity culture is an aspirational culture regardless of how much you don't want it to be.

Paloma Faith

#19. Keeping order is a crutch for those who are too lazy to search for things ... )

Guy Deutscher

#20. Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form.

E. M. Forster