#sacrifice

You don't get it, Clary. You don't understand what it's like to live always at war, to grow up with battle and sacrifice. I guess it's not your fault. It's just how you were brought up- ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-glass #isabelle-lightwood #life #mortal-instruments #sacrifice

But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It's a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright. ↗

— Bob Goff

#sacrifice #life

It was one thing to sacrifice your own life for someone else's. It was another thing entirely to bring into the mix a third party - a third party who knew you, who trusted you implicitly. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#trust #life

This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make. ↗

— Cammie McGovern

#sacrifices #life

Kufanikiwa katika maisha ni kuwa tayari muda wowote kujitoa mhanga kwa ajili ya kitu unachoweza kuwa. ↗

— Enock Maregesi

#sacrifice #life

He remembered the darkness and despair she'd suffered during her long years as a prisoner, but he also recalled the deep, unquenchable joy she took from the world around her; and he knew that given the choice, Wilamena would suffer all she had and more rather than sacrifice one day of being alive. It was just as his father had said. She chose life, all of it. ↗

— John Stephens

#pain #sacrifice #the-fire-chronicle #life

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But...the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him? ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#neighbor #sacrifice #service #love

Without sacrifice, true love is incomprehensible. ↗

— Toba Beta

#sacrifice #true-love #love

I became intent on saving him through showing him that he was loved. ↗

— Joyce Johnson

#kerouac #love #rescue-mentality #sacrifice #love

The pain we feel in separation is the price we pay for love. ↗

— Hatef Mokhtar

#love #romance #sacrifice #separated #love