Quotes About Sacrifice

Back in my own place, the sky burst in upon me from the window and I was reminded of a long-forgotten passage in War and Peace. Napoleon, walking through the battlefield, sees a dying soldier and, holding up the flag of France, declaims: "Do you know, my noble hero, that you have given your life for your country?" "Please! Please!" the soldier cries. "You are blotting out the sky.

But after a few months of tortuous happiness ('alas, too few,' my uncle said with a sigh), Isolde abandoned the family home and the arms of her boy-lover in order to marry a dashing lieutenant of the Prussian artillery. Petros was, of course, heartbroken.

I'm serious. He's beginning to understand.… When a person really loves something… or someone…" "Yes?" Jesse asked, softly, his lips brushing her ear. "You just have to…" Lucy looked away, over to the sun-drenched piazza, then back into Jesse's smiling face, into his warm, searching eyes, and the words came to her. "You just have to stand back and let them.

Whilst we knew what we had suffered and risked better than any one else, we also knew that science takes no account of such things; that a man is no better for having made the worst journey in the world; and that whether he returns alive or drops by the way will be all the same a hundred years hence if his records and specimens come safely to hand.

Then some prayers from the Burial Service: and there with the floor-cloth under them and the tent above we buried them in their sleeping-bags—and surely their work has not been in vain.

And at the end, when Scott himself lay dying, he wrote to Mrs. Wilson: "I can do no more to comfort you, than to tell you that he died as he lived, a brave, true man—the best of comrades and staunchest of friends.

Thus the Emperor penguin is compelled to undertake all kinds of hardships because his children insist on developing so slowly, very much as we are tied in our human relationships for the same reason. It is of interest that such a primitive bird should have so long a childhood.

the way we can know if we've betrayed ourselves is by whether we are still desiring to be helpful.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

If ever he chooses to rescue sinners from the consequences of their sins, it will not be by sacrificing his justice, but by fully satisfying it.

Some Saian mountaineer Struts today with my shield. I threw it down by a bush and ran When the fighting got hot. Life seemed somehow more precious. It was a beautiful shield. I know where I can buy another Exactly like it, just as round.

We often weep beneath Love's cross, But when she calls we her obey.

She thought, watching him, 'I am in a bath, naked in a bath with no bubbles, and a man is washing me; my reputation is doomed and to hell with it. I've been to hell and all I wanted in it was to be alive for this man. Who carried me out of it.

I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!

Casper] has an interesting origin story.. "We noticed that everyone was drinking green juice and working at standing desks to stay healthy and increase productivity, yet sleep was something that everyone sacrificed..Even worse: they bragged about how little they slept.

It's time we recognize that, as the workplace is currently structured, a lot of women don't want to get to the top and stay there because they don't want to pay the price—in terms of their health, their well-being, and their happiness.

The poet Mark Nepo defines sacrifice as "giving up with reverence and compassion what no longer works in order to stay close to what is sacred." So recognizing when habits are no longer working for us and sacrificing them is a cornerstone of wisdom.

Es terrible perder una guerra. -Casi tan terrible como ganarla.

And the truth is, the ten or twenty minutes I was somebody's mother were black magic. There is nothing I would trade them for. There is no place I would rather have seen.

Is it a sin to hold something more important than your life? Should I be condemned for that?

I live solely for you. If you're the moon that never sets...Then I'll walk the night. I'll be a quiet light in the endless darkness surrounding you...protecting that kindness in your eyes. This is...my wish.

If you are willing to jump in front of a car to save a friend, then that friendship is real.

Have you found out the meaning of your life? Yes. I've finally figured it out. It's to find something more important to me than my own life. Finding something more important to us than our own lives is why we are all born. We're all given with one life inside us. And God wants us to use that life to set out on lifelong journey to find something that is more important to us. You too are someone more important to me than my own life.

Have you found out the meaning of your life?' 'Yes. I've finally figured it out. It's to find something more important to me than my own life. Finding something more important to us than our own lives is why we are all born. We're all given with one life inside us. And God wants us to use that life to set out on lifelong journey to find something that is more important to us than ourselves