Quotes About Sacrifice

Life is not worth living unless it is lived for others.

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Joining the Sangha and renouncing worldly life is necessary in order to devote your whole life and all your energies toward the Dharma.

Life is like a grain of wheat: to plant it is to recognize its value; to keep it is to destroy its value. The 'planted' Christian counts life dear not unto himself but unto God.

I wouldn't cut you out of my life Clary, any more than I would cut off my right hand and give it to someone as a Valentine's Day gift." Gross," said Clary. "Must you?" Simon grinned. "I must.

As we get older, life becomes very complicated in terms of concessions we have to make.

The age-old and noble thought of 'I will lay down my life to save another,' is nothing more than cowardice.

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

There are dread secrets that none may know and have peace. More, secrets that render whosoever knoweth them an alien unto the tribe he belongs to, that cause him to walk alone on earth, for he who takes, pays.

If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces.

Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it's the very last piece, but you let him have it.

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

It doesn't matter if one of us is desperately, desperately in love. So much in love, that equally desperate measures must be taken

I am not someone to pity, with an unstable mind and weird pain syndromes. I am taking charge of my life. I live according to my principles. I take action and make sacrifices.

They do sometimes go crazy, these people, because the world is telling them not to want the things they want. it can seem saner to give up - but then one goes insane from giving up.

When blood dripped on my bare feet or poured over the book I was reading, he was kind.

A part of me died. And it was the best part.

No importa que uno de nosotros esté perdida y desesperadamente enamorado. Tan enamorado que deben tomarse medidas igualmente desesperadas.

If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces. (p. 106)

At some point in this generation, "Take up your cross and follow me" changed into, "Come to Jesus and he'll make your life better.

Our tendency to emphasize rules over relationship and correctness over community means that we are often willing to sacrifice relationships on the altar of rules.

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

The adult incest survivor is likely to become involved in sexual relationships with older or more powerful people…There is little room for intimacy and much opportunity for abuse and sacrifice…The survivor may continue to be 'child', rather than an equal.

Until the millennium arrives and countries cease trying to enslave others, it will be necessary to accept one's responsibilities and be willing to make sacrifices for one's country - as my comrades did. As the troops used to say, "If the country is good enough to live in, it's good enough to fight for." With privilege goes responsibility.