Quotes About Sacrifice

Zarife de kendine göre Yedigey'in iyili?ini istemi? ve bu konuda vicdan?n?n sesine uymu?tu. Bunun için Zarife'yi suçlam?yor, ona k?zam?yordu. Zaten insan sevdi?ine k?zamazd? ki! Daha çok kendisini suçluyor, kendisini kusurlu buluyordu. Sevdi?i kad?n ac? çekece?ine kendisi ac? çeksindi. B?rak?p gitse bile onu hep sevgiyle anard?.

No Madonna and Child could touch Her tenderness for a son She soon would have to forget.... The air was heavy with odors of diarrhea, Of unwashed children with washed-out ribs And dried-up bottoms waddling in labored steps Behind blown-empty bellies. Other mothers there Had long ceased to care, but not this one: She held a ghost-smile between her teeth, And in her eyes the memory Of a mother's pride...

The weakness of the Elephant, our emotional and instinctive side, is clear: It's lazy and skittish, often looking for the quick payoff (ice cream cone) over the long-term payoff (being thin). When change efforts fail, it's usually the Elephant's fault, since the kinds of change we want typically involve short-term sacrifices for long-term payoffs. (We

We cut back on expenses today to yield a better balance sheet next year. We avoid ice cream today for a better body next year.)

The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants each serving a town of 60,000 people. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.

Smart enough to get into Yale. Economists studied students who had been admitted to two schools of higher and lower prestige but decided to attend the school with lower prestige. Estimated sacrifice in lifetime earnings from attending the less prestigious school: none.

Pain now for a payoff later.

Make it concrete: Look back over your schedule for the past week and ask yourself, What, specifically, would I have given up to carve out the extra three or four or five hours that I'll need?

Never choose something because it's easier.

Begitu lah kadang2 bila kita terjun ke jurang kehidupan kita.Tidak ada yang bisa menemani kita,bahkan mereka yang mau mengorbankan hati mereka demi kebahagian kita,juga tidak.

Motherhood taught me something new about love. It was the one relationship where you gave everything you had and then wished you had more to give.

I don't agree with you that the private life must be sacrificed for the public one. And that is the final advice that I leave for my children: my dearest boys, balance duty with love. Trust me, it can be done.

She did understand about sacrificing values for the sake of love. It was a lesson all mothers had to memorize.

This is what Kaikeyi failed to see: it's not enough to merely love someone. Even if we love them with our entire being, even if we're willing to commit the most heinous sin for their well-being. We must understand and respect the values that drive them. We must want what they want, not what we want for them.

love something—or someone—so much that you would willingly sacrifice yourself. I want to be brave like that.

And the mother, who through all the years of her hardship had never shed a tear, wept at his trust and her deception.

When one has to leave behind almost everything, it hardly matters what one takes.

So this, too, was true of love: it could make us forget our own needs. It could make us strong even when the world was collapsing around us.

Such rulers were adored by the citizens they protected, but often their families had to bear the brunt of sacrifice.

Why was it that our holy men who made a big deal of giving up so many things—comfort, fame, family—couldn't seem to give up their tempers?

That's love—golden ropes that bind you and pull you in different directions.

I was forced to face the truth. Ram no longer cared for me. Or if he did, it was pushed deep down inside him, suffocated by kingship. And since the children came from my body and were subject to the same gossip and doubts, he couldn't afford to care for them either.

That's how it is sometimes when we plunge into the depths of our lives. No one can accompany us, not even those who would give up their hearts for our happiness.

A wind rose around me, from where I didn't know. It was unexpectedly cold and made me shiver. 'Sacrifice, sacrifice', whispered the trees, carrying my promise across the valley