#sacrifice

It's risky most of the time, but its better to listen to your heart. ↗

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#burkett #friends #girlfriend #heart #heartbreak

Making money isn't hard in itself,what's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting your life to ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#jobs #money #sacrifices #life

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#self-sacrifice #love

If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant after all: sacrifice and selflessness. It did not mean hearts and flowers and a happy ending, but the knowledge that another's well-being is more important than one's own. ↗

— Melissa de la Cruz

#reality #sacrifice #selflessness #well-being #love

This was our rhythm, our worship: give and take, gift and receive, honor and entrust. Making love to this man wasn’t just an expression of my feelings for him or a carnal, physical need—it was an offering. ↗

— Rachael Wade

#love #sacrifice #sex #worship #love

What value will there ever be in life, if we are not together? ↗

— Becoming Jane

#sacrifice #life

In the final analysis, with Rene she had been an apprentice to love, she had loved him only to learn how to give herself, enslaved and surfeited, to Sir Stephen. ↗

— Pauline Réage

#love #sacrifice #love

I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice," said she. — "In not one of all my clever replies, my delicate negatives, is there any allusion to making a sacrifice. I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness. ↗

— Jane Austen

#sacrifice #love

She had seen what it cost him and her heart quickened with compassion. For that alone, she might have loved him almost. ↗

— Cecilia Dart-Thornton

#kindness #love #sacrifice #love

I was aware that we were both silently making those inevitable comparisons, putting our relationship in context. She is more this and less that. He is better or worse in these ways. It is human nature to do this--unless its your first relationship, which might be the very reason that your first relationship feels special and remains forever sacred. But the older you get, the more cynical you become, and the more complicated and convoluted the exercise is. You begin to realize that nothing is perfect, that there are trade-offs and sacrifices. The worst is when someone in your past trumps the person in the present, and you think to yourself: if I'd known this, then maybe I wouldn't have let him go. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#relationships #sacrifice #nature