Quotes About Sacrifice

Sólo tú estás. Sólo tu cuentas. Lo demás es un juguete que hay que despedazar porque nos hace daño estar jugando con él a eso de estar sacrificando nuestro mejor tiempo a intereses que no son ni pueden ser nuestros.

Mi madre se llamaba María Vizcaíno y estaba llena de bondad, tanta, que su corazón no resistió aquella carga y reventó. No, no es fácil querer mucho, Juan

La Virgen nuestra, nuestra madre, que no quiere saber nada de nuestros pecados; que se echa la culpa de nuestros pecados; la que quisiera llevarnos en sus brazos para que no nos lastime la vida, está aquí junto a nosotros, aliviándonos el cansancio y las enfermedades del alma y de nuestro cuerpo ahuatado, herido y suplicante.

Pony eyed the pitcher of hot fudge sauce Nellie had placed on the table. "And if you pass that pitcher, I will reveal a nugget of information that will please you and instantly return me to your good goddess graces." Nellie pushed the pitcher forward. "Spill. Not the fudge sauce. The info.

I am speaking of something deeper. I am speaking of everything a being can give another. This is what I offer you. I offer myself.

Sometimes sacrifice was necessary in pursuit of a worthy goal.

It will be so difficult to have to spend five days in Costa Rica, but hey, anything for you guys. - Nellie

Irigaray remarks in such a vein that the masquerade... is what women do... in order to participate in man's desire, but at the cost of giving up their own.

If I had a hundred kingdoms, I would trade them all for you, my dearest love. I was nothing until you.

Every week, Michael went to Dean and DeLuca to buy your pears. She shook her head, remembering. He waas going to school, and he had no money, so he stretched every penny like this - She made a motion as if she were pulling on rubber band. But he wanted you to have the best pears. For you, only the best would do.

Either give me your hand, or end it now, and put us both out of our misery.

Bit ljubavi u tome je da se cijeli predaš i da ništa ne uskra?uješ, Ljubav je zna?ila da svoju sre?u povjeravaš nekomu drugomu i zauzvrat snosiš odgovornost za sre?u te osobe.

I tried to do it all myself: be mommy and camp counselor and art teacher and prereading specialist (and somehow, in my off-hours, to do my own work). I tried my absolute best. And like so many of the moms around me, I started to go a little crazy.

There was something almost sacred in the self-sacrifice that I felt was required of me as a mother, caring for this child.

Sex is a commitment...Once you're there you can't go back to holding hands...and when you give yourself both mentally and physically...well, you're completely vulnerable.

If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities," Caitlin said, "then I haven't missed anything.

To experience the "Kingdom" means that I have taken all that He has freely given to me, plus the right to my own life, and have given all this unconditionally to Him. He has become "Lord" of my life and I have yielded control over the totality of my being - all that I am, and all that I ever will be, to Him. He is now "my" Lord.

Such are they who buy the life of this world at the price of the Hereafter. Their punishment shall not be lightened for them, nor shall they be helped.

He accepted the belief that the driving force behind the authentic artist is his self-isolation and even his self-immolation.

When we're young, we take so casually every sacrifice offered by the old.

She is also capable of a noble generosity, and of cramming it down on the head of the recipient like a crown of thorns.

Even while you paid attention to what you must do today and tomorrow, you heard the receding sound of what you had relinquished.

There are as many heroes in private life as in the great affairs of state.

That place [Disneyland] is my baby, and I would prostitute myself for it.