Quotes About Sacrifice

Accustoming oneself to poverty, seeing how a soldier or a labourer lives and thrives in wind and weather, with ordinary people's fare and dwelling, is just as practical as earning a few guilders more a week. After all, one is not in the world for one's own comfort, and one does not need to be better off than one's neighbour.

People who do nothing but fall in love are perhaps more serious and saintly than those who sacrifice their love and their hearts to an idea.

I shall be glad to do all I can to make a success of what we began in the café, but I think that the primary condition on which success depends is to set aside all petty jealousies, for only union is strength. Surely the common interest is worth the sacrifice of that selfishness of every man for himself.

Ce que l'homme tue Dieu le ressuscite [What man kills God resuscitates].

I always believe that I have a certain toughness in common with the peasants, who also do not eat so particularly well, and yet live and work on.

You are thrifty yourself, you understand what is absolutely needed. And I ask you, can one do what is absolutely necessary with what remains for one's own use after paying for painting materials, models, and rent? If I had some friends, if I were a little known, yes, then it would be easier; but I have no friends, and my job is to try and make them.

People who do nothing other than be in love are perhaps more serious and holier than those who sacrifice their love and their heart to an idea

I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.

Receiving Communion means entering into communion with Jesus Christ. ... What is given us here is not a piece of a body, not a thing, but him, the Resurrected one himself — the person who shares himself with us in love. ... This means that receiving Communion is always a personal act. GOD IS NEAR US, P. 81

It isn't love if it isn't everything.

Jill was young and untried, but she knew the fundamental truth about women—that love can torment them even as it gives them the moon and the stars to play with.

Never again could she give herself to any man as she had given herself to her husband; completely, as though the world might end before morning came.

Drink, my angel; everything I have inside me is yours, soak it up through the paper, through the sleeve of my coat. Suck my blood out of the hollow of my elbow where you are lying, where you are keeping warm. It's just as you please, it will always be just as you please from now on.

I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.

Many women have become teachers who never should have, because it's more appealing than working in the mills or in the fields. Yet, their students suffer." "Because

So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Jesus suffered because he named the cause of suffering, the law that kills

a marginal man condemned to death on the cross is Lord ...

I am here a stranger to all feasts but those of blood.

Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled.

Nishkâma Karma, or work without desire or attachment.

sacrifice your life for the good of others—this is my wish and blessing.

Still," I said, "I am sorry. But I was desperate to rescue my sister." "I understand," the sagging dragon assured me. He explained, "I, too, had a sister, once." The past tense didn't escape me. "What happened to her?" I asked, feeling we were connected, two of a kind after all, sharing similar personal tragedies. "I had to eat her," the dragon said, "to keep her from stealing my gold.