Quotes About Sacrifice

God, I know you're sick of hearing me beg, but this is my woman, my wife. My best friend! No, she's so much more than that—she's the other half of my heart. I've waited my whole life for her—I'd give my life a hundred times to keep her safe! A thousand times! She's every breath I take, every single beat of my heart. I don't think I can live without her now. Not now…Please, God. Please. Oh God, please…

Are you sure?" "I've never been more sure about anything. I want this. If you can't stay here, I'll go anywhere you want to go." "But Jack, you love it here!" "Don't you realize I love you more? I need you in my life. You and our baby. God, Mel—I don't care where that happens. As long as it happens.

I wanted to do it for you," he said. "I wanted to show you how much I would do, how far I would go. How hard I would work.

I asked Phil Prentiss what he would do if they never got a baby and he said they'd die with a lot of excess love in their hearts…." "And let's not," Jack said. "Let's spend every drop. On the kids, on our families, on your patients, on the town. On people we don't know yet and the ones who have been our good friends forever. On each other. Let's spend our last drop as we're taking our last breaths.

tuition, lots of fund-raising and often

After all, Jack had gone into war five times and the only really bad injury he'd sustained was a pretty miserable shot in the ass. Not everyone who went to war came out crippled.

So Jimmy gained a beautiful wife and Catherine gained a bank account. Bobby shrugged. Sounds like half the marriages of the rich and famous. What's the problem?

Believing Jesus means you're willing to risk everything you are and everything you have based on everything He taught and everything He did. It means learning to love Him more than you love your own life.

I'm really sorry I can't pay you back," I said. He shook his head. "My father's going to take everything you own and then break your life. It's the least I can bloody do.

Motherhood was not for the weak.

Making the decision to have a child—it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. —Elizabeth Stone

We may not be perfect, but we're good, and good people can't imagine evil. It catches us by surprise, and it always will. We don't know the first thing about the kind of evil that would sacrifice a child.

Any victory won that way would be Pyrrhic.

Lisa Scottoline

Katie had said that motherhood had no expiration date, and Jill had agreed, believing to the bone that that it transcended everything—biology, law, even time and space.

Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.

It's funny how in that moment I see things clearly. Am I beaten down? Yes. Have I allowed myself to become a victim? Somewhat. Am I afraid? Always. Does some part of me still long to fly away from this place? Absolutely. But I can't leave. Sam and I have built a life for Joy. It isn't perfect, but it's a life. My family's happiness means more to me that starting over again.

maybe writing doesn't require sacrifice. Maybe it's a gift to experience emotions through our brushes, ink, and paper. I wrote out sorrow, fear, and hate. You wrote desire, joy, and love. We paid a heavy price for speaking our minds, for revealing our hearts, for trying to create, but it was worth it, wasn't it, daughter?

it is composed of two characters. The first means pain; the second means love. That is a mother's love.

As the eldest daughter, I had always been responsible for my younger siblings. Now I had to provide their food and clothing and be a second mother to them. My father was no help. He was a kind man, but he shuddered under the added responsibility. Too often I found him outside, alone with his sadness. No man was built to shoulder the full weight of feeding and caring for his family. That was why he had a wife and daughters.

Every mother must leave her children to work, and every mother suffers, bu we do it.

And here is the mother tree, A-ma continues. Her voice is at once softer and filled with more emotion than it ever is during ceremonial sacrifices. She places her palms on the trunk as delicatly as she did on De-jas' belly. Isn't she beautiful? These trees are sacred, A-ma states simply. And those yellow threads are the mother tree's most precious gift. I've helped many with the leaves and threads of the mother tree when all else failed.

Every mother must leave her children to work, and every mother suffers, but we do it.

Yes, she had held her family together, but at what cost to herself.