“ I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Yield to temptation; it may not pass your way again. ”
- Robert Anson Heinlein- Copy
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“ The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
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“ Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery. ”
- Gerald G. May- Copy
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“ He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all. ”
- Miguel de Cervantes- Copy
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“ He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all. ”
- Eleanor Roosevelt- Copy
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“ Grudge no expense — yield to no opposition — forget fatigue — till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome. ”
- Maria Weston Chapman- Copy
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“ Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission. ”
- Cesare Pavese- Copy
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“ When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future. ”
- St. Therese of Lisieux- Copy
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“ There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness. ”
- Dalai Lama- Copy
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“ They both had to sacrifice, but they finally understood what I was trying to do. ”
- Don Shula- Copy
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“ We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits — and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful. ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
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“ The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to sacrifice the self and a willingness to dissolve it by losing one's individual distinctness in a compact collective whole. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ Out spoke the victor then, As he hail'd them o'er the wave, Ye are brothers! ye are men! And we conquer but to save; So peace instead of death let us bring; But yield, proud foe, let us bring; With the crews, at England's feet, And make submission meet To our King. ”
- Thomas Campbell- Copy
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“ One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered. ”
- Michael J. Fox- Copy
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“ Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. ”
- Otavio Paz- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. ”
- Isaac Asimov- Copy
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“ Obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken. ”
- Adolf Hitler- Copy
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“ My soldiers ask of me, why surrender a military advantage in the field … I could not answer. ”
- General Douglas McArthur- Copy
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“ If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments. ”
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh- Copy
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