Quotes About Sacrifice

All we can do is take their pain and carry it in our hearts, That's a mother's love... love and pain.

If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.

Parenthood wasn't about blood or biology, he found; it was about a joyful willingness to give yourself over, to subordinate your own needs for someone else's. When you loved your kids, you'd give up everything to keep them safe and make them happy, and you didn't care about the other things, the ones that went away.

Nobody told you that wen you became a parent, you became a child again; it was early bedtimes and grilled cheese sandwiches for all. Every date night was a negotiation, every invitation that you actually had the desire or energy to accept became a strategic maneuver that may or may not work out after all.

Uselessness, she thought, was the permanent condition of parenthood.

There was no undoing the bad without losing the good. That was the trick of it all.

Once a woman has a husband and child, her time, her heart, her desires never quite belong to her again. A blessing some days, a burden others, like all the other gifts that life brings.

Finley felt a fresh wash of tears, a desire to run toward Eloise, to cling and to hold on. But she didn't. She had already learned the most important lesson Eloise had to teach, though it still hurt like hell: Fear holds on. Love lets go. "Yes

The nanny you let into your home seduces your husband, sets fire to your life. And all because you wanted to work and be a mother.

We give because we love, not because we fear. When we give with love, we can disconnect from how things are received. Only the act of pure giving is important.

How much torture will I endure in the name of love?

They sought to pummel His pride, not understanding He'd laid it aside at birth, when He gave up heaven and came to earth.

Not 'I am finished,' but 'it is finished.' His supreme sacrifice was over. His mighty work of redemption was done. He came to earth to do the will of His Father, and He had accomplished that...By His death Jesus abolished the ceremonial Law and all its obligations, stamping them *paid in full*.

There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.

That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.

Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.

The art is more important than the artist. The work is more important than the person who does it. You must be prepared to sacrifice all the you could possibly have, be, or do; you must be willing to go all the way for your art. If it is a question between choosing between your life and a work of art -- any work of art -- your decision is made for you.

A man's life weighs more then glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.

Surely you can entrust your task to your friends. No, said Taran, after a long pause, I have taken it on myself through my own choice. If that is so, answered Medwyn, then you can give it up through your own choice.

Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.

Had I done it sooner, perhaps he might have lived. He was a man of courage and good heart, a proud man. Now he is dead. I saved the signal to use in a worthy cause, and when I found one it was wasted." "Wasted?" answered Fflewddur. "I think not. Since you did your best and didn't begrudge using it, I shouldn't call it wasted at all.

Det ligger större ära i en välplöjd åker än i en åker dränkt i blod.

man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. Once," he added, "you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.

He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself