#sacrifice

I love you," he whispered, and that was the moment he knew what he was going to do. When you loved someone, you put their needs before your own. No matter how inconceivable those needs were; no matter how fucked up; no matter how much it made you feel like you were ripping yourself into pieces. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#self-sacrifice #love

To persist with a goal, you must treasure the dream more than the costs of sacrifice to attain it. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#cost #goals #persistence #richelle #richelle-goodrich

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

Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation. ↗

— Boris Spassky

#compensation #dynamic #element #important #material

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

The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex. ↗

— John Osborne

#beliefs #careers #doing #first #give

It’s not easy to be God. ↗

— Péter Zilahy

#coming-of-age #dark-humour #sacrifice #age

The sin of quick anger is an idol of the heart that is not dying to our own rights. ↗

— Ron Pearce

#rights #self-sacrifice #temper #anger

Above all we must not wish to cling to our suffering. Suffering surely deepens us and enhances our person, but we must not desire to become a deeper self than God wills. To suffer no longer can be a beautiful, perhaps the ultimate sacrifice. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#beauty