Quotes About Sacrifice

We love what we love in spite of ourselves, toward something larger and more generous than the velvet prison of self.

An estimated 400 women disguised themselves as men to fight in the Civil War. Many were like Amy Clarke, who enlisted so she could remain with her husband when he joined the Confederate Army. Amy continued to fight after he was killed, and she was wounded herself and taken prisoner.

Break up? We didn't break up. He gave me away.

To be really good at something, you can't be married. I believe that, along with Katharine Hepburn.

Sometimes things don't work out as they're planned, and there have to be sacrifices in order to make things better again.

We have a baby now at my house, all day long. And all night long. I wonder why they say you have a baby? The baby has you.

How many nights must it take one such as me to learn that we aren't, after all, made from that bird that flies out of its ashes, that for us as we go up in flames, our one work is to open ourselves, to be the flames?

the wages of dying is love.

At the height of the Cultural Revolution, rather than risk having to face dire consequences for his accumulated writings, he burned several kilos of manuscripts (ten plays, and many short stories, poems, and essays). For him it was an ordeal to part with what he had written. Moreover, it took a long time to burn so much paper without creating smoke and arousing suspicions.

You have to be ready for hard work and frugal spending to get the idea off the ground.

The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.

Other humans can die a grisly death, as Jesus did. They cannot be born, as he was, as God incarnate.

You work for the devil, you better be ready to die for him.

Many of us have convinced ourselves that compromise is necessary to achieve our goals, that all of our goals are not attainable so we should eliminate the extraneous, prioritize our desires, and accept less than the moon.

To be a champion, you must have no ego at all. You must not exist as a separate entity. You must give yourself over to the race. You are nothing if not for your team, your car, your shoes, your tires. Do not mistake confidence and self-awareness for egotism.

A race car driver must be very selfish. It is a cold truth: even his family must came second to the race.

Ob?udoval sem oba; kako težjo je biti ?lovek. Da nenehno zatajuješ svoje želje. Da te skrbi, ali boš naredil, kar je prav, namesto, da bi naredil, kaj bi najraje.

For however much the Gateses might give away, their daily life remains, by and large, unaffected. They remain, in spite of this enormous donation, one of the wealthiest couples in the world. Mother Teresa, on the other hand, gave up everything to serve the poorest of the poor. Pinker

Love isn't a smiling bride who holds a colorful bouquet and gazes lovingly at her husband; it's a corpse-littered battlefield where the walking wounded have to keep searching for survivors or die themselves.

Sometimes you just have to play in pain

We must never forget that the paschal mystery does not expose that which man has done to offend God but that which God has done to redeem man. Lent is never about me, no matter how much I may have wronged the Lord; Lent is always about Christ Jesus and his sacrificial love.

For love, we will climb mountains, cross seas, traverse desert sands, and endure untold hardships. Without love, mountains become unclimbable, seas uncrossable, deserts unbearable, and hardships our lot in life.

Love is a choice.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." And that's when I started crying. Crying like a kindergarten kid in front of everyone. Crying because Joseph wasn't just my friend. I had his back. And he had mine. That's what greater love is.