"I surrender to it, and by surrendering, I control it."
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"Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders."
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"In my view dictators do not surrender. They have to be well and truly defeated."
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"... so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being that has known how to touch it. That being is not selected; it is recognised and obeyed."
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"In a real sense faith is total surrender to God ."
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"When you live in surrender, something comes through you into the world of duality that is not of this world."
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"Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love."
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"That we ought, once for all, heartily to put our whole trust in GOD, and make a total surrender of ourselves to Him, secure that He would not deceive us."
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"We shall fight in parking lots, we shall fight in empty fields and on wide streets, we shall never surrender."
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"all success cloaks a surrender"
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"If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go."
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"In the end what you don't surrender, well, the world just strips away."
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"The words of truth are always paradoxical. To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders."
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"The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator—to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature. When it does so, it is good and happy."
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"To be prosperous and happy in life, Henry, it is simple. Pick one woman, pick it well, and surrender."
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"A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts."
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"Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons."
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"Sacrifice is the surrender of that which you value in favor of which you dont"
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"She is like all the rest of them. Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it's going to be in words."
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"The sine qua non for obtaining a psychedelic experience is humbling yourself to the point where you admit that you must submit to the experience of the plant or the drug. This act of surrender is the major technical function you will be called upon to perform during the psychedelic trip."
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