#sacrifice

Rumors run wild when one sacrifices for self and temporarily forsakes those who assume entitlement to one's persona. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#forsake #person #persona #rumors #sacrifice

Life is like a film screen: pictures come, make an impression, go, and then make a place for new pictures with new impressions which obscure the previous ones. Some of those old pictures fade, but the impressions they leave will never pass away. Such an impression is the image of Hein Sietsma -- a joyful Christian who loved life so much but was still willing to give it to the great, good, and holy cause. ↗

— Diet Eman

#life #sacrifice #diet

What's going on?" he asked, looking from face to face. "I was having a good dream." "I need you," said Lissa. "I hear that from women a lot," said Adrian. Christian made a gagging sound, but the faintest glimmer of a smile crossed Eddie's lips, despite his otherwise tough guardian-stance. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#last-sacrifice #richelle-mead #vampire-academy #dreams

All the world seemed suddenly dream, for in what waking world would a prince deceive his own people for the benefit of a slave? ~ Ayden ↗

— Rachel Haimowitz

#rachel-haimowitz #sacrifice #dreams

On the Russian revolutionaries: To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having children, to lose your fortune, and to give up your civil honor, all for revolutionary conviction, makes for a league of more practical proof than any religious order. ↗

— Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#russian #sacrifice #faith

You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a lesson to him," said Miss Hillyard. "It didn't pay, did it? Say he sacrificed his professional honour for the women and children we hear so much about -- but in the end it left him worse of." But that," said Peter, "was only because he committed the extra sin of being found out. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#dishonesty #falsification #family #financial-distress #honor

I needed to choose between the one thing that really filled m thoughts-my love for that woman-and losing my freedom and all the choices that the future promised me. To be honest, the decision was easy. -Lukas Jessen-Petersen ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#marriage #sacrifice #freedom

Without sacrifice, there is no freedom. Without freedom, there is no life. God bless them who give their all for us.” From Dark Rising. ↗

— Greig Beck

#freedom

They left their encampment with dirt-covered linen strewn about the abandoned grounds amongst clothes, shoes, children’s toys and other discarded belongings. The handcart wheels crunched over them, and the dry wheels screamed as the Willie Company started for Zion. ↗

— Sage Steadman

#pioneers #religious-freedom #sacrifice #willie-handcart #zion

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