"Surrender your expectations. Surrender your doubts. Surrender your fears. Surrender your strengths. Surrender your anger. Surrender your control."

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Source : Yasmine Galenorn (2008). “Darkling: An Otherworld Novel”, p.245, Penguin

Yasmine Galenorn

#Expectations Quotes #Doubt Quotes #Surrender Quotes

“If someone is expressing everything I am feeling at the moment, it's probably Jon Stewart. I hear him and think, Yeah!”
“I was never one of those girls who dreamt of Prince Charming. To piss off my mom, I would say, 'I'm never having kids and I'm going to be a fabulously rich old maid with cute butlers and dogs.'”
“What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts.”

Source : Elias Hicks (1828). “The Quaker, Being a Series of Sermons by Members of the Society of Friends ...”, p.219
“Everybody has a part of her body that she doesn't like, but I've stopped complaining about mine because I don't want to critique nature's handiwork ... My job is simply to allow the light to shine out of the masterpiece.”
“Lord, No one but you and I understands what faithfulness is. Do not let me die until, for them, all danger is driven away.”
“Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like the sea urchin and starfish and empty shells and lumps of stinging jelly upon the sands here after a tide. A tidal wave out of Egypt. And it has left a multitude of little wriggling theologians and confessors and apologists hopping and burrowing in the warm nutritious sand. But in the hearts of living men, what remains of it now? Doubtful scraps of Arianism. Phrases. Sentiments. Habits.”
“I want to get comfortable with my insecurities until I am no longer insecure. I want to be comfortable in my skin so that I do not need to dump any of my discomfort onto someone else in the form of judgment.”
“Nursing may be the oldest art, but in the contemporary world, it is also one of the most invisible. One of the most invisible arts, sciences, and certainly one of the most invisible parts of our health care system.”

Source : Suzanne Gordon (2012). “Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines”, p.19, Cornell University Press

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