{"quotes":[{"text":"My love, we can close our eyes but we cannot stop the sunrise.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["accept","acceptance","beloved","close","destiny","eyes","fate","future","give-in","imminent","impending","inescapable","inevitable","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","love","lover","peace","que-sera-sera","sunrise","surrender","surrendering","tomorrow","unavoidable","undeniable"],"id":19410,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"I think there’s a point in everyone’s life where they realize that despite their best efforts, they have no choice but to surrender. That carrying on will only bring them more pain or heartache. I don’t think there’s any way that we can avoid these moments. But I just want you to know that I’m not quite there yet.","author":"Tessa Clare","tags":["attitude","dont-give-up","heartache","inspirational","motivational","pain","strength-through-adversity","surrendering"],"id":21766,"author_id":"Tessa+Clare"},{"text":"Sadly, in too many cases surrender is having been ‘outrun’ by fear rather than having ‘run out’ of heart.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["abandon","abandonment","defeat","defeated","desire","drive","fear","fearful","frightened","heart","passion","passionate","retreat","scare","scared","surrender","surrendering","withdrawal"],"id":31177,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"I can only begin the process of saving myself when I surrender to the reality that I can’t. And what greater place to surrender that reality than to an infant who surrendered Himself to me so that I might surrender myself to Him.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["christmas","god","holidays","inability","infant","jesus","jesus-christ","manger","reality","salvation","save","saving","surrender","surrendering"],"id":36083,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"As I contemplate a relationship with God, I find that I’m afraid to ride on the coattails of the infinite. But what I fear more than that is spending my life in the coat closet.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["christian","christianity","closet","coat","coattails","contemplate","contemplation","fear","fearful","frightened","god","infinite","jesus","jesus-christ","join","joining","mediocre","mediocrity","partner","partnership","relationship","relationships","surrender","surrendered","surrendering","unify","unity"],"id":62692,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"There’s not much that I can find in places where there is nothing to find. However, to avoid facing God I find myself spending a lot of time in those very places.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["abandon","abandonment","accountability","accountable","avoid","avoidance","christian","christianity","denial","deny","find","flee","futile","god","ignorant","ignore","lonely","meaningless","meaninglessness","myself","nothing","nothingness","places","run","self","surrender","surrendering","time"],"id":117475,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Maybe my greater fear should not be fear itself, but what I will lose should I submit to fear.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["abandon","afraid","detract","detraction","fear","fearful","frighten","frightened","lose","losing","loss","scare","scared","surrender","surrendering"],"id":121959,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Surrendering to who you really are and why you are here may very well change the world.","author":"Maria Flynn","tags":["authentic-living","authenticity","personal-development","surrendering"],"id":142215,"author_id":"Maria+Flynn"},{"text":"To simply survive appears to be the choice of the plodding hoards that wander all around me. Therefore, I’ve adamantly committed to never hoard hoards.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["abandon","abandonment","conform","conformity","exist","existence","hoard","hoards","mediocre","mediocrity","passive","surrender","surrendering","survival","survive","vision","visionless"],"id":150447,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Surrender your pain, look within and see your perfect and divine self.","author":"Earthschool Harmony","tags":["divine","healing","love","self-love","soulfood","spiritual","spiritual-poetry","surrender","surrendering"],"id":151169,"author_id":"Earthschool+Harmony"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":28,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}