#sacrifice

Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome . ↗

— Maria Weston Chapman

#fatigue #forget #grudge #love #opposition

Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a form of slavery? To sacrifice oneself to an idea, to a race, to God? Or does it mean that the higher the model the longer the tether of our slavery? Then we can enjoy ourselves and frolic in a more spacious arena and die without having come to the end of the tether. Is that, then, what we call liberty? ↗

— Nikos Kazantzakis

#liberty #passion #sacrifice #freedom

You think me noble?” She rolled to her side facing him. “Am I saint-like? Do I slay dragons and hang the moon as well? ↗

— Jessica Fortunato

#moon #noble #sacrifice #saint #friendship

Wait," said Butler. "Just wait, Holly. Artemis has a plan." He squinted through the green dome. "What is your plan, Artemis?" All Artemis could do was smile and shrug. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#death #sacrifice #death

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

In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#sacrifice #life

Because love was not the answer to every question. Because real love meant sacrifice. Sometimes love means letting go. ↗

— Melissa de la Cruz

#love #sacrifice #truth #life

It is a great priviledge to hear from the mouth of an initiate what struggles we are ensnared in and what the meaning is of the sacrifices we are required to make before veiled images. Even if we should hear something evil, it would still be a blessing to see our task as something beyond a senseless cycle of recurrence. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#meaning-of-life #sacrifice #life

Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves! ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

#girls #love #purity #self-sacrifice #suffering

Phury knelt beside him and stroked his face. "I've only ever had you to live for. If you die I have nothing. I'm utterly lost. And you are needed here." Zsadist tried to reach out, but couldn't lift his arms as Phury stood up. "God, Z, I keep thinking this tragedy of ours is going to be over. But it just keeps going, doesn't it?" Zsadist blacked out to the sound of his twin's boots heading from the room. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#love #sacrifice #love