Being smart takes patience. Being wise takes pain. Being apathetic takes practice. Being in love takes everything…away.

Truth often sacrificed for the sake of stability and peace.

If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Bring it on, I can take whatever you can dish out.” I need to keep living in order to save my daughter from dying.

…We understood nothing at all. Not what it meant to wish for a miracle… nor its price.

That night my mother had what she considered a wonderful dream. She dreamed of the country of India, where she had never been. There were orange traffic cones and beautiful lapis lazuli insects with mandibles...

Raphael’s hand tightened on the hilt of the knife. His knuckles were white. He spoke to Magnus. “I have no soul,” he said. “But I made you a promise on my mother’s doorstep, and she...

A wise mother is the unifying force between father and children; her seed of love produces a harvest of trust.

The image of God infused in us never sees the light of day in the service of self, but it becomes the light of day in the service of others.

Sina jinsi. Nguzo ya maisha yangu ni historia ya maisha yangu. Historia ya maisha yangu ni urithi wa watu waliojifunza kusema hapana kwa ndiyo nyingi – waliojitolea vitu vingi katika maisha yao kunifikisha hapa nilipo...

Compare King William with the philosopher Haeckel. The king is one of the anointed by the most high, as they claim—one upon whose head has been poured the divine petroleum of authority. Compare this king...

If we presuppose that Jesus and God are one—as many (but not all) Christians do—then we can also infer that Jesus Christ was omnipotent, omniscient, and omni-benevolent, and it is with this that the idea...

In a pocket of his knapsack he’d found a last half packet of cocoa and he fixed it for the boy and then poured his own cup with hot water and sat blowing at the...

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...

The ultimate test of man’s conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.

Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, and so they give their lives to little or nothing....

The thing about a marine is that they can be the nicest men and women you will ever meet, but when it comes to their duty there are none fiercer.

Don’t Give Someone Responsibility without Requisite Authority

I do not say that I could never be persuaded to sacrifice my reputation to passion- only that it would take a great deal.

You will achieve what you want to achieve, only if you can cope with the theory of altruism.

If giving my everything is what it takes, I won’t hesitate, not for even a second. That’s what it means to have something you’d give your life to keep safe.

Real magic can never be made by offering someone else’s liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.

Life is funny. Things change, people change, but you will always be you, so stay true to yourself and never sacrifice who you are for anyone.

It is not the dead rather the ones who lives through war have seen the dreadful end of the war, you might have been victorious, unwounded but deep within you, you carry the mark of...

Also … the plan sounded exactly like the sneaky, twisted, ridiculously annoying and noble sort of thing Leo Valdez would do.

The amount of perfume she had on was like a human sacrifice on Incense Night.

In Ephesians 5, Paul shows us that even on earth Jesus did not use his power to oppress us but sacrificed everything to bring us into union with him. And this takes us beyond the...

Some things are very low profile, but if they excite me creatively, I accept them. Sometimes there are high-profile projects, and you have to do it. We all have human limitations. It is a painful...

True love was about letting go. A daily choice. Knowing the worst about a person and sacrificing for them anyway. Choosing to love.

Sometimes what we seek to gain through “winning” a conflict is not worth what we’re refusing to sacrifice. And true compromise often involves sacrifice: As on the path between Scylla and Charybdis, the monsters of...

Good tells us that our agenda is the agenda of the person next to us.

It was once necessary to go from somebody to nothing to become everything.

Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

War is hell, but sometimes in the midst of that hell men do things that heaven itself must be proud of. A hand grenade is hurled into a group of men. One of the men...

If you want to know what love really is, take a look around you. …It’s giving life that counts. Until you’re ready for it, all the rest is just a big fraud. All the crazy...

Sacrifice is the ecstasy of giving the best we have to the One we love most.

People don’t want words, as seductive, pleasant and warming as they can be. People want to see that they’re worth some sacrifice or some great deed. And it’s not that people are always worth it,...

I never advise anyone to sacrifice something else because of music, but then I don’t see why they would have to anyway.

Whenever I use to think of others, I had to sacrifice myself…., Its called life in earth where you had to think a lot to do or not to do, the things you like or...

Only yesterday I was no different than them, yet I was saved. I am explaining to you the way of life of a people who say every sort of wicked thing about me because I...

I thought I saw my entire future once, every moment of it, until the day of my death. I spent it in her arms. Then after twenty years, she left.

Too many disciples neglect their thorn-like qualities. For instance: Opting for singleness doesn’t count if you can’t attract a mate. Patience doesn’t count if you are too cowardly to defend what is right. Forgiveness doesn’t...

And I began to suspect that the ultimate sacrifice isn’t death after all; the ultimate sacrifice is willingly bearing the fullest penalty for your own actions.

There are matters in that book, said to be done by the express command of God, that are as shocking to humanity, and to every idea we have of moral justice, as any thing done...

Because I fuckin’ love you Mia…That didn’t come out exactly as I’d planned, but it is the truth. I’m in love with you…

I wouldn’t be caught dead sacrificing myself for this country.

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,While follow eyes the steady...

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...

Ghosts will forever put in appearances, as they should. Our illusions have muscle and meaning. The past returns at midnight, in the heart of our dreams, and the rains and the willows forever remind us...

A sacrifice is not convenient. If it is something we can easily do, then it is not a sacrifice.