The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

When you relinquish the desire to control your future you can have more happiness.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

Only in death will I relinquish my belts.

Before anything else we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth justice freedom and reason.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.