Quotes About Sacrifice

It is possible that characters need to die for the author to make her moral point, for the author himself to regenerate by letting go of an ideal identity, or for the world to recognize the necessity of certain ideas and ideals to die.

I told her I don't know if I'll have another baby, but if it meant she would come and live with me, I may just go ahead and do it.

And maybe the sacrifices will feel worth it, because having a partner that amazing to journey with is just that rewarding.

Jesus comes first. Then others. Then yourself. All of our decisions come down to that. Christ taught us to live in community. He wants us to be His hands and feet.

In a way, I realized, every woman risked her life when bringing a child into the world. Labor and delivery were serious business, and not for the faint of heart. Yet down through the centuries women took that risk, willing to trade life for life.

They begged me not to quit. But they didn't offer to change anything.

So we support the dance but it does not support us.

I took the obi from my father's chest and took it with me. I kept it until I met my husband. I gave it to him. He still wears it.

If you go personally to war, you cross the line yourself. You sacrifice ideals for survival and the fury of killing. That alters you forever. That is why no one rushes to be a veteran. Think before you want to change so unalterably. The stakes are not merely one's life, but one's very humanity.

Duty is inevitable, but we need not saddle ourselves with extra responsibilities. Keep life simple. Give up as much as possible.

The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.

But you can only give so much of yourself away before you lose yourself.

A real mother throws her heart over the fence and then climbs after it.

Era um ato de devoção. Um pouco como escrever ou amar alguém — nem sempre achamos que vale a pena, mas, de alguma forma, não desistir disso faz um sentido inesperado depois de um tempo.

But I knew jumping was like dying, I would have to let go of everything.

When unrequited love is the most expensive thing on the menu, sometimes you settle for the daily special.

Am iubit întotdeauna pe mai multe planuri, n-am ÅŸtiut s? sacrific totul pentru un sâmbure de adev?r sau de via??, de aceea m-am lovit de toate pragurile ÅŸi m-au dus valurile cum au vrut.

I wondered what exactly the war had accomplished. Men had fought great battles: the Battle of the Bulge, the battle for Monte Casino, the battle for the beaches, for God and country, for God and freedom, for God and a pure race. They had left hundreds of cities in ruins and their people without shelter or food.

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Dan wanted me to stay. I wanted Elf to stay. Everyone in the whole world was fighting with somebody to stay. When Richard Bach wrote "If you love someone, set them free" he can't have been directing his advice at human beings.

None of us have ever asked the men for anything, Agata states. Not a single thing, not even for the salt to be passed, not even for a penny or a moment alone or to take the washing in or to open a curtain or to go easy on the small yearlings or to put your hand on the small of my back as I try, again, for the twelfth or thirteenth time, to push a baby out of my body.

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She loved him for his own sake, and therefore she would rather have suffered his absence if he flourished than to have enjoyed his presence if he languished; her sorrow over his avoidable languishing would overshadow her delight in his presence. For a lover, it is more blessed to give than to receive, even when giving pierces the lover's heart.

Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.