Quotes About Sacrifice

Suffering so someone else didn't have to suffer. Sacrificing your body for someone else's well being.

There are always sides. There is always a winner, and a loser. For everyone person who gets, there's someone who must give.

In both relationships, there were only two people: one who gave and one who sacrificed

There is always a winner, and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.

The constellation she's named after tells the story of a princess, who was shackled to a rock as a sacrifice to a sea monster--punishment for her mother Casseopeia, who had bragged to Poseidon about her own beauty. Perseus, flying by, fell in love with Andromeda and saved her. In the sky, she's pictured with her arms outstretched and her hands chained.

He couldn't live a life worth saving, and he couldn't save a life worth living.

The catch was this: Power always involved loss of humanity.

But Marice, he rode off to save you, and wound up leaving you behind forever. Is it really worth dying for the person you love? She thinks about it for a moment. That's not the real question, Oliver. What you should be asking is, can you live without her?

Oliver, she says. You can do this. I watch her walk away. When Delilah talks like that, it's easy to remember why I gave up everything I knew in order to be with her. She believes in me, and if someone believes in you wholeheartedly, you start to believe in yourself as well.

Whatever we forfeit echoes the pain from all the other times we have been disappointed in our lives.

His biggest fear was that if and when he did find his missing daughter, she would no longer recognize who he had become in order to save her.

Because when you get right down to it, the only person you should trust is the one you'd lay down your life for.

I thought that if I loved you hard enough, I could move mountains for you; I could make you fly. It didn't matter to me how that happened—just as long as it did. I wasn't thinking of who I might hurt, only who I could rescue.

When I kept someone else from getting hurt, did I hurt you?

When you love someone, you'll do anything you can to keep them with you.

I was a writer. A child who believed in fairy tales. Not the silly Disney ones your mother read to you, but the ones with blood and thorns, with girls who knew that love could kill you just as often as it could set you free.

I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes it's not for quite as long as we would have expected or hoped. But it is still far better than never having had those children at all.

What twisted deity would grant you the superpower of fatherhood to protect someone who, one day, would not need you?

As it turns out, public defenders are less Superman and more Sisyphus, and there's no small number of lawyers who wind up crushed under the weight of the infinite caseloads and the crappy hours and the shitty pay.

Parenthood was like awakening to find a soap bubble in the cup of your palm, and being told you had to carry it while you parachuted from a dizzying height, climbed a mountain range, battled on the front lines. All you wanted to do was tuck it away, safe from natural disasters and violence and prejudice and sarcasm, but that was not an option. You lived in daily fear of watching it burst, of breaking it yourself. Somehow

Jei atiduodi kam nors savo šird?, o tie žmon?s miršta, ar jie nusineša j? su savim? Ar likusi? amžinyb?s dal? praleidi su kiauryme, kurios ne?manoma užpildyti?

What good was a personal victory to someone who'd spent her life losing herself for the greater good of everyone else?

There are always sides. There is always a winner, and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.

A sacrament - like marriage - means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.