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“The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image, but the internalized locus of self-worth saves lives. Western men are very different. In externalizing the source of their self-esteem, they surrender all emotional independence. (Conquest requires two parties, after all.) A man cannot feel like a man without a partner, corporation, team. Manhood is a game played on the terrain of opposites. It thus follows that male sense of self disintegrates when the Other is absent.”

Source: The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide

“Mature love is not a surrender of the self but a surrender to the self. The ego surrenders its hegemony of the personality to the heart, but in this surrender it is not annihilated. Rather it is strengthened because its roots in the body are nourished by the joy that the body feels.”

Feels Heart Self Body Joy Love Is Personality Ego Roots Surrender Mature Hegemony Mature Love

Book:Joy: The Surrender to the Body and to Life

Source: Joy: The Surrender to the Body and to Life

“A Christian might drink only ginger ale at the tavern bar, but there he is already on the way to drinking beer and whiskey. The girl who attends a ball but never dances a step, will soon surrender her body to the lustful embrace of every casual male acquaintance as other dancers do.”

Way Body Might Christian Girl Steps Drink Balls Embrace Drinking Males Surrender Bars Beer Dancer Acquaintance Casual Whiskey Drinking Beer Ginger Ale Lustful Taverns

Book:The Ruin of a Christian

Source: The Ruin of a Christian

“If you hit somebody hard enough, they will give up. You can feel their body go limp and they'll just surrender. So every time I hit somebody, the goal is to knock myself out. I know that if I hit somebody hard enough that I can feel it, it's hurting them 10 times worse.”

Ifs Knows Giving Feels I Can Hard Enough Body Goal Hurt Giving Up Surrender

Author:Bob Sanders

“To surrender one's vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.”

Body Sex Sports Water Equal Surrender Vulnerable

Book:An Accidental Autobiography

Source: An Accidental Autobiography

“it ultimately doesn't matter which disease gnaws away at the body - it looks the same. The flesh surrenders, grows exhausted, and the eyes ask why.”

Looks Matter Body Eye Age Asks Grows Dying Disease Flesh Surrender Old Age Exhausted

Book:The Long Goodbye

Source: The Long Goodbye