#sacrifice

...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience. ↗

— Andy Stanley

#faith #financial-freedom #giving #promise #sacrifice

All I wanted was for you to be free from everything. And with that freedom, you often showed me another world, so I wanted you to be even freer. I wanted you to be so free that you would live your life for other people. ↗

— Kyung-Sook Shin

#free #freedom #love #others #sacrifice

War is hell, but sometimes in the midst of that hell men do things that heaven itself must be proud of. A hand grenade is hurled into a group of men. One of the men throws himself on top of it, making his body a living shield. In the burst of wild fire he dies, and the others live. Heroism is only a word, often a phony one. This is an action for which there is no good word because we can hardly even imagine it, let alone give it its proper name. Very literally, one man takes death into his bowels, takes fire into his own sweet flesh, so that the other men can take life, some of them men he hardly knows. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#heroism #life #sacrifice #war #death

Our little tribal circles, bound by social contracts and selfish mutual need. Everyone working in their own greedy self-interests and huddling together with their tribe, at war with all those outside who they regard as barely human. What breaks a human mind out of that iron cage of mistrust, is a sacrifice. The martyr who gives up everything, who abandons all personal gain, who lays down his life for the good of those outside his group. He becomes a symbol all can rally around. So instead of trying to make a selfish, violent primate somehow empathize with the whole world, which is impossible, you only need to get him to remember and love the martyr. As one is forgotten, another must replace it. ↗

— David Wong

#inspirational #sacrifice #selflessness #inspirational

In a brave and noble way, I want to sacrifice my life one day so that two of my clones can live. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#clone #funny #noble #sacrifice #funny

My mother told me that life isn't always about pleasing yourself and that sometimes you have to do things for the sole benefit of another human being. I completely agreed with her, but reminded her that that was what blow jobs were for. ↗

— Chelsea Handler

#self-sacrifice #life

We all have something to offer, and we must choose to focus on what we do have to offer, not what we don’t. And remember the dirty little secret is that those who are acting like they have it all together really don’t. ↗

— Miles Anthony Smith

#leadership #quotes-to-live-by #sacrifice #servant-leader #inspirational

Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#sacrifice #life

Some of us weren't born for rewards, Froi. We were born for sacrifices. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#life #rewards #sacrifices #tariq #life

I’d rather spend the rest of my life without ever seeing you again,” he says, “than watch them destroy you because of me. ↗

— Sangu Mandanna

#sacrifice #separation #life