Marcus Luttrell Quotes

I am a micromanager, and I love being involved in every detail of my life, but in the big picture, you realize how little control you have. 'Air I Breathe' is about those moments of surrender where you get to something that is bigger than you, and you don't have answers for it.

I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.

The actor is in the hands of a lot of other people, over which he has no control.

I don't enter, I'm entered. It's up to someone else. It's up to them.

I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it.

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.

I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.

I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

You think you're in control, and you're trying to get that square peg in that round hole. You're frustrated, and you realize that you're not in control of everything. You need to just step back and let God.

I never thought anyone would pity me because of my time in the Marine Corps.

One of the things I noticed in my career that gave me a lot of happiness early on was realising we don't have any control.

There's nothing worse in life than to sit there and be the victim of a process that's outside your control.

It's weird to have no control over something that you're involved in.

You realize there are things you can't control. You can't control a lot of the stuff that happens in your life.

Love, love, love, says Percy. And hurry as fast as you can along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust. Then, go to sleep. Give up your body heat, your beating heart. Then, trust.

In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.

She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.

To love is to lose control.

Where is peace to be found? The answer is surprising but clear. In weakness. Why there? Because in our weakness, our familiar ways of controlling and manipulating our world are being stripped away, and we are forced to let go from doing much, thinking much, and relying on our self-sufficiency. Right there where we are most vulnerable, the peace that is not of this world is mysteriously hidden.

Fully to surrender to love can be terrifying. But it is the price life asks in exchange for the possibility of ecstasy.

Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.

You have no control [over natural disaster]. That's what's scary about it. You're helpless. That feeling of helplessness is really scary.

You can't take responsibility for everything. You can't have that kind of control. At some point, it's all out of our hands.