“I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism, let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than, quite simply, to be at all times caught in the dominant forms of the moment.” WayMeanDoeMomentsTodayFormSimpleModernAmountPureCapitalismCaughtDefinitionsSurrenderAll TimeDominantOld Fashioned Author:Alain Badiou
“So, The Color Purple changed my life. It changed everything about my life because, in that moment of praying and letting go, I really understood the principle of surrender. The principle of surrender is that, after you have done all that you can do, and you've done your best and given it your all, you then have to release it to whatever you call God, or don't call God.” DoneMomentsGivenCan DoPrinciplesChangedColorPrayingLetting GoUnderstoodSurrenderReleaseThat MomentPurpleChanged My Life Author:Oprah Winfrey
“If there were a generic one-word expression for 'one whose fear of the uncertainties of success moves him to surrender at the very moment of victory', it would be 'Republican'.” IfsMomentsWould BeMovingExpressionVictoryRepublicanSurrenderUncertaintyOne WordGeneric Author:L. Neil Smith
“We must now surrender to the obligation to understand and to care. We must surrender ourselves to becoming conscious, thinking members of the human race. We must put down the temptation to powerlessness and surrender to the questions of the moment.” ThinkingHumansMomentsCareRaceKnowledgeBecomingMembersConsciousSurrenderObligationTemptationHuman RacePowerlessness Author:Joan D. Chittister
“It is not restful, it is not possible to talk wholeheartedly to more than one person at a time. You can't really talk with a person unless you surrender to them, for the moment (all other talk is futile). You can't surrender to more than one person a moment.” PersonsMomentsCommunicationConversationSurrenderWholeheartedlyRestful Book:Bring me a unicorn: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1922-1928 Source: Bring me a unicorn: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1922-1928