Quotes About Sacrifice

I think this is a very hard choice, but the price we think the price is worth it.

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.

Our grandfathers were less well-housed, well-fed, well-clothed than we are. The strivings by which they bettered their lot are also those which deprived us of pigeons. Perhaps we now grieve because we are not sure, in our hearts, that we have gained by the exchange. The gadgets of industry bring us more comforts than the pigeons did, but do they add as much to the glory of the spring?

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

La rebelión consiste en mirar una rosa hasta pulverizarse los ojos.

Digo que hay que mandar a Alix y a sus amigos y congéneres y a sus semejantes a que den su maldita sangre a favor de las injusticias que ellos causaron. No hablo de lo económico solamente, como podrías imaginar…

Los hombres nobles eluden un esfuerzo realizando otro mucho mayor. Por no arrancar una rosa, construyen un palacio. Por no escuchar un reproche, ejercen la rectitud toda la vida. Por no bajarse del caballo, conquistan el Asia.

Todo libro que uno lee es también un libro que no lee. Nos vamos a morir. Una elección es una renuncia

I am a victim. To be an artist is to be a victim, because if you don't do what you want to do you die. That is the reality.

The occultist G. I. Gurdjieff (1877–1949) demanded that a student, who was an inveterate smoker, quit smoking, and until he quit, Gurdjieff forbade any visit from him. The student fought for four years against the habit. When the student managed to overcome his habit, he very proudly presented himself in front of the teacher: "So! I quit smoking!" Gurdjieff responded, "Now, smoke!

para que el hombre se haga luz, la mujer deberá enterrar su lámpara en las tinieblas" Donde Mejor Canta un Pájaro

In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown is revealed, existence is infinite, there is no possibility of sacrifice, all is rest and joy. For this reason, bowed down by suffering and duties, beautiful in the midst of his misery, capable of loving in the face of afflictions and trials, man finds his greatness, his fullest measure, only in The Kingdom of This World.

What would love be without mutually assured oblivion?

Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.

Silloin kuusi uhaten ravisti kihariansa kerran vielä ja kylvi alas latvastansa kimmeltävää lunta kuolevan poikansa peitteeksi, koska veren kuumassa virrassa pakeni sydämestä raitis henki ja hälveni höyrynä ilmaan.

Volevo dire che io la voglio, la vita, farei qualsiasi cosa per poter averla, tutta quella che c'è, tanta da impazzirne, non importa, posso anche impazzire ma la vita quella non voglio perdermela, io la voglio, davvero, dovesse anche fare un male da morire è vivere che voglio.

Dopo dodici mesi de noviziato, pieni di pentimenti e di ripentimenti, si trovò al momento della professione, al momento cioè in cui conveniva, o dire un no più strano, più inaspettatto, più scandaloso che mai, o ripetere un sí tante volte detto; lo ripeté, e fu monaca per sempre.

È un saggio che Dio vi dà per cattivarvi al suo servizio, per animarvi ad entrar risolutamente nella nuova vita in cui avrete tanto da disfare, tanto da riparare, tanto da piangere!

V'ha detto che i doveri annessi al ministero fossero liberi da ogni ostacolo, immuni da ogni pericolo? O v'ha detto forse che dove cominciasse il pericolo, ivi cesserebbe il dovere? O non v'ha espressamente detto il contrario?

Coming back was part of the price

Your world is only the product of your sacrifices.

Killing, and being prepared to send one's own followers to their deaths is an index of seriousness in bargaining.