Quotes About Sacrifice

Aphrodite makes us understand why women have drowned their babies.

But sometimes you gotta do stuff you don't want to do.

His eyes met mine and the rest of the room faded away. ?I'm always going to keep your heart safe, even if mine has to stop beating for that to happen,? he told me softly.

You can borrow my two-carat diamond stud earrings, Aphrodite said. I stopped and looked back at her. Huh? She shrugged. That's as close to a declaration of love as you're gonna get from me.

There are moments in the life of every man when the impulse attacks him to sacrifice his future to the alluring gratification of the present.

One cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs, sir.

Oh Brancepeth,' said the girl, her voice trembling, 'why haven't you any money? If only you had the merest pittance - enough for a flat in Mayfair and a little weekend place in the country somewhere and a couple of good cars and a villa in the South of France and a bit of trout fishing on some decent river, I would risk all for love.

Peter looked at her gravely. I'm putting up with a lot for your sake, he said. You needn't. Why don't you go away? And leave you chained to the rock, Andromeda? Not for Perseus!

kapag ako ay umalis kapag ako ay bumalik ipagkait mo na sa akin ang tinapay, ang hangin, ang liwanag at ang tagsibol huwag lamang ang iyong ngiti dahil ito'y aking ikasasawi

Do you not see that the apple tree flowers only to die in the apple?

A tu amor no puedo renunciar sin morirme.

A victory for us alone would be petty. She is the final flower of those who have fallen.

And with which numbers does the ant subtract its dead soldiers? Y con que cifras va restando la hormiga sus soldados muertos?

I could worry about his health but somehow not about my own. We throw ourselves away a little each day. Dr.

If you die, angel, it means I'm already dead.

She reached up, held his face between her palms. How can I help but fret? You live wi' death on your heels. For your sake, lass, I promise to stay one step ahead.

To lay aside what you have in your head (selfish desires and ambitions); to freely bestow what you have in your hand; and never to flinch from the blows of adversity!

I have left a few paltry rupees, a few petty pleasures, for a cosmic empire of endless bliss. How then have I denied myself anything? I know the joy of sharing the treasure. Is that a sacrifice? The shortsighted worldly folk are verily the real renunciates! They relinquish an unparalleled divine possession for a poor handful of earthly toys!

A beggar cannot renounce wealth," Master would say. "If a man laments: 'My business has failed; my wife has left me; I will renounce all and enter a monastery,' to what worldly sacrifice is he referring? He did not renounce wealth and love; they renounced him!

How easy it is for the majority of people to be tempted materially, to languish spiritually and do the very things that will hurt themselves.

I chuckled over this paradoxical view of renunciation—one which puts the cap of Croesus on any saintly beggar, whilst transforming all proud millionaires into unconscious martyrs.

You are reversing the case!" The saint's face held a mild rebuke. "I have left a few paltry rupees, a few petty pleasures, for a cosmic empire of endless bliss. How then have I denied myself anything? I know the joy of sharing the treasure. Is that a sacrifice? The shortsighted worldly folk are verily the real renunciants! They relinquish an unparalleled divine possession for a poor handful of earthly toys!

To serve mankind as one's larger Self.

No seas egoísta —me dijo—; no sientas pesar por mí. Por largo tiempo les he servido gustosamente; ahora, regocíjense y deséenme un raudo viaje hacia Dios. Voy a ver a mi Amado Cósmico.