Roz Chast Quotes

Surrender is not the best way to live; it is the only way to live. Nothing else works.

I don't want to make this sound negative at all, but in the best way possible I freaking give up. I give up. You can't try and make your life perfect. I'm just trying to have a good time, and I'm just trying to appreciate the things that I have around me. I give up on the 'dream' dream. I think that it's all a dream. I think it's all wonderful and terrible. And I give up in the nicest way.

The desire to abdicate, to give up - for me, that's primal.

Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us, and doing what is given us to do.

Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it.

When I was 25, I believed I could change the world. At 41, I have come to the realization that I cannot change my wife, my church, or my kids, to say nothing of the world. Try as I might, I have not been able to manufacture outcomes the way I thought I could, either in my own life or other people's.

If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

When you stop fighting, that's death.

I don't chase after things, but I put forward the effort and know the rest of it is out of my hands.

Eventually I lost interest in trying to control my life, to make things happen in a way that I thought I wanted them to be. I began to practice surrendering to the universe and finding out what "it" wanted me to do.

Once you let the words go, you have no control over how they're printed or what the media does with them. So there's no point in trying to make plans or to control it.

I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

Surrender had played out for good with me.

There it is. Take it.

I'll always be in some type of turmoil. So what I've tried to do is just surrender to that.

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

There comes a time when you have to shut it off, let it go, and say it's not going to happen.

You can't control everything.

Control is not real, and I'm really understanding that every day. It's about the acceptance of relinquishing control that makes it powerful for you.

This time, for the first time, I saw the possibilities in giving up. I even found hope in it.

shane:do we have a choice michael:dont think so shane:then screw im gitting tired lets go get eaten.at least then i can get some sleep

The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again.

I will practice acceptance. Today I will accept people, situations, circumstances, and events as they occur. I will know that this moment is as it should be, because the whole universe is as it should be. I will not struggle against the whole universe by struggling against this moment. My acceptance is total and complete. I accept things as they are this moment, not as I wish they were.