„Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it. … Can you accept the isness of this moment and not confuse it with a story the mind has created around it?“

— Eckhart Tolle
„The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.“
— Ram Dass
„The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.“
— Eckhart Tolle
„One must also accept that one has ‘uncreative’ moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass.“
— Etty Hillesum
„All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.“
— Eckhart Tolle
„What happens is a continual surrender of himself as he is at the moment to something which is more valuable. The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.“
— T.S. Eliot
„Your thoughts and beliefs of the past have created this moment, and all the moments up to this moment. What you are now choosing to believe and think and say will create the next moment and the next day and the next month and the next year.“
— Louise L. Hay
„A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.“
— Chuck Palahniuk