Quotes About Sacrifice

O que um homem faz é como se todos os homens o fizessem. Por isso não é injusto que uma desobediência num jardim contamine a todos; por isso não é injusto que a crucificação de um único judeu baste para salvar todo o gênero humano.

Si el honor y la sabiduría y la felicidad no son para mí, que sean para otros. Que el cielo exista, aunque mi lugar sea el infierno.

Dios totalmente se hizo hombre hasta la infamia, hombre hasta la reprobación y el abismo. Para salvarnos, pudo elegir cualquiera de los destinos que traman la perpleja red de la historia; pudo ser Alejandro o Pitágoras o Rurik o Jesús; eligió un ínfimo destino: fue judas.

Si el honor y la sabiduría y la felicidad no son para mí, que sean para otros. Que el cielo exista, aunque mi lugar sea el infierno. Que yo sea ultrajado y aniquilado, pero que en un instante, en un ser, Tu enorme Biblioteca se justifique.

Timpul nu reface ceea ce pierdem, veÈ™nicia p?streaz? totul pentru slava ei sau pentru a-l încredinÈ›a focului mistuitor.

Y de pronto llegará alguien que baile contigo, aunque no le guste bailar y lo haga porque es contigo y nada más.

No hay miedo que resista un estómago vacío. Un hombre o una mujer con hambre hace hasta lo imposible por cruzar. No tiene nada más que perder porque, antes de partir, ya lo perdió todo.

Worship is either something "given", divine worship is fore-ordained—or it does not exist at all.

Your grandfather was a hero in a war, girls. He wasn't a bad man or a weak man. Maybe he was too old to have a second family, a second wife and your mother and me, so many years after he lost his first. Maybe he was too old to fight anymore, and that's why he let me be taken away. I've thought about this for years and years. All I know is there are no heroes in this world. Not really. Just men and women who become old and tired and lose the strength to fight for what they love any longer.

For in a real tragedy, it is not the hero who perishes; it is the chorus.

What paradise and vacation have in common is that you have to pay for both, and the coin is your previous life.

General Kuribayashi

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.

He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.

Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

Love thine enemies because they are the instruments of your destiny.

Atonement (at-one-ment) consists in no more than the abandonment of the self-generated double monster-the dragon thought to be God (superego) and the dragon thought to be Sin (repressed id). But this requires an abandonment of the attachment to ego itself, and that is what is difficult.

The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship. You become mature when you become the authority of your own life. Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it. Awe is what moves us forward.

The imitation of Christ is the joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.

You should be willing to be eaten also. You are food body.

The hero is the man of self-achieved submission. But submission to what? That precisely is the riddle that today we have to ask ourselves and that it is everywhere the primary virtue and historic deed of the hero to have solved.

Giving birth is definitely a heroic deed, in that it is the giving over of oneself to the life of another.