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

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.

Forgive me, my sons. I’ve been defeated by this despicable idiot. This is as far as I go.I leave everything to you.You have my gratitude. Farewell, my sons.

Once a woman put her hand in a gate and it ate her fingers. A five-legged spider with red eyes crawled out. That woman put in three fingers from her other hand, so that the spider might be complete. Do you have that integrity of purpose, sister?

You have to face the very thing you fear.–tdf

Those who sacrifice freedom for safety deserve neither.

A gift involves sacrifice. If you give away something that you no longer value or want, it cannot be a gift. It is simply a discarded item.

Of what value is your life, unless you are willing to sacrifice it for those you love?

He was not being courageous as he bore the freezing stream for his wife and children. He simply chose between the lesser of two evils—the pain and suffering he would endure in the river, a physical pain that he could stand to bear, or the pain and suffering he would feel if he had to...

And Pantalaimon didn’t ask why, because he knew; and he didn’t ask whether Lyra loved Roger more than him, because he knew the true answer to that, too. And he knew that if he spoke, she wouldn’t be able to resist; so the dæmon held himself quiet so as not to distress the human who...

Sometimes evil wins, nah, child. But it’s always fleeting. Just a temporary ripple in a sea of goodness, brought on by the carnal nature of greed ’n corruption. Sacrifice washes that ripple out in waves of love ’n light, and peace is found when justice is served, even for those who lose, ya hear?

There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.

Others could be victim for each lesson we learned.

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.

Even if I never get to see the light of heaven, it will still be worth my sacrifice as long as I save you.

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

I was just looking for a ball over the plate and get it into the air (for a sacrifice fly), … The worst thing you can do is hit a ground ball.

These things sensibly affected Theseus, who, thinking it but just not to disregard, but rather partake of, the sufferings of his fellow citizens, offered himself for one without any lot. All else were struck with admiration for the nobleness and with love for the goodness of the act.

When civilians are not asked to pay any price, it’s easy to be at war – not just to intervene in a foreign land in the first place, but to keep on fighting there. The justifications for staying at war don’t have to be particularly rational or cogently argued when so few Americans are making...

Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a form of slavery? To sacrifice oneself to an idea, to a race, to God? Or does it mean that the higher the model the longer the tether of our slavery? Then we can enjoy ourselves and...

…I have so many dreams of my own, and I remember things from my childhood, from when I was a girl and a young woman, and I haven’t forgotten a thing. So why did we think of Mom as a mom from the very beginning? She didn’t have the opportunity to pursue her dreams, and...

Following Jesus isn’t something you can do at night where no one notices. It’s a twenty-four-hour-a-day commitment that will interfere with your life. That’s not the small print—that’s a guarantee.

Well, we spent enough on gymnastics.”Christ, did we,’ said Maureen. ‘So many lessons.’So many lessons, it was true: art and music and ice-skating; Lily’s every fleeting interest enthusiastically, abundantly indulged. Not to mention the many more practical investments–chemistry tutoring when she struggled, English enrichment when she excelled, SAT courses to propel her to the school...

The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.

Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance–a car turns left instead of right, a train is missed, a call comes too late–and the real test of our humanness is whether, in light of that knowledge, we are ever able to recover. When we again...

Every turning point in a person’s life isn’t reached by luck, they choose to be successful, they know what it takes to be there, they can do what is expected of them to do, they do not show trepidation about the requirements needed to be on top

The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

Am I saint-like? Do I slay dragons and hang the moon as well?

I screeched with frustration, which in hindsight is never okay when there are people trying to kill you.

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

He is saying: let’s not condemn them because these people are making a major sacrifice to protect their country,

But sometimes, in order to win, you have to make sacrifices.

They do not learn, fixed in their ways as they are. You are naïve tothink otherwise. It’s an illness, Assassin, for which there is but one cure.’‘You’re wrong. And that’s why you must be put to rest.’‘Am I not unlike those precious books you seek to save? A source of knowledgewith which you disagree? Yet...

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

It isn’t sacrifice if you love what you’re doing.

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.

Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.

What can you do for love?Can you leave a person for love?Can you leave a country for love?I think I wouldn’t even leave my couch for love

This is the one who will find us. He’s the one who will lead them all back to me someday. He’s the explorer. El curioso.

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 keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the...

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

Leadership is giving out far more than one expects in direct return. The rewards are intangible, yet priceless.

In order for you to receive, someone else has to give. That’s called sacrifice.

Skypilot could not help but hope that the song of the moon–the song of God’s miraculous firmament–might reach her tonight and enable her to feel the reality of Christ’s love and sacrifice.

To sacrifice anything is of great honor. To sacrifice everything is of God.

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

On the average, only those prisoners could keep alive who, after years of trekking from camp to camp, had lost all scruples in their fight for existence; they were prepared to use every means, honest and otherwise, even brutal force, theft, and betrayal of their friends, in order to save themselves. We who have come...

P29 – the oppressed, having internalised the image of the oppressor and adopted his guideline are fearful of freedom. Freedom would require them to eject this image and replace it with autonomy and responsibility.

Even after making up one’s mind to the sacrifices Ihad decided upon, there is always left a trace of envyfor those who have triumphed in the melancholystruggle for literary supremacy