#sacrifice

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#flame #isolation #laughter #loss #sacrifice

I started skating because I loved it. I started when I was three and I didn't know all the sacrifices and all the hardships and how difficult day-in and day-out it would be. ↗

— Sarah Hughes

#day-in #day-out #difficult #hardships #how

I just keep thinking how lucky I am that I haven't had to sacrifice anything. ↗

— Karlie Kloss

#anything #had #haven #how #i

My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do. ↗

— Norah Jones

#been #best #best friend #close #early

If I have nothing to sacrifice, I have nothing to gain. ↗

— Catherine Ndereba

#i #nothing #sacrifice

There can be no argument about the Lone Star State's significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and the sacrifices of those who made Texas independence a reality. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#actions #american #american history #argument #contributions

If there were more than one path to salvation then it would totally negate Jesus' sacrifice on the cross, his life, his teachings. ↗

— Josh McDowell

#his #jesus #life #more #path

The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked. ↗

— Keith Miller

#bible #get #giving #god #good

In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#aspirations #been #characteristic #create #development

The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#fascism #great #lives #our #our lives