#sacr

She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine. ↗

— Dan Brown

#deeply #feminine #passionate #sacred #she

Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by the experience of a woman who had lost everything because of her child. Tereza would listen and believe that being a mother was the highest value in life and that being a mother was a great sacrifice. If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#guilt #mothers #sacrifice #experience

Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of California's budget crisis, state workers are going to have to do the same. ↗

— Jerry Brown

#budget #california #contributions #crisis #cuts

I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother. ↗

— Charles Farrar Browne

#brother #cousins #given #i #ready

Although it was in primitive times and differently called the Lord's day or Sunday, yet it was never denominated the Sabbath; a name constantly appropriate to Saturday, or the Seventh day both by sacred and ecclesiastical writers. ↗

— Charles Buck

#appropriate #both #called #constantly #day

Of what value is your life, unless you are willing to sacrifice it for those you love? ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#love #quotable #quotes-on-life #sacrifice #value

I felt like my pregnancy was a sacred moment for me. I stayed in Boston and I didn't work apart from the contracts I have, and then I only let them use my face. ↗

— Gisele Bundchen

#boston #contracts #face #felt #i

I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#footsteps #i #illustrious #men #people

I would definitely return to Austria. They were all good experiences for me, but definitely Austria because there were some ancient Celtic, sacred sites that were in the forest that were quite beautiful. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#austria #beautiful #because #celtic #definitely

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#each #make #other #relationship #sacrifice