A cult is a group of people who share an obsessive devotion to a person oridea. The cults described in this book use violent tactics to recruit,indoctrinate, and keep members. Ritual abuse is defined as...

The accomplishment of your dreams will demand big sacrifice and hard work.

Seek the Blame; Give Away the Fame

You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it’s a catch-22: all of those things that you’re willing to lose are...

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

Only after Mom went missing did you realize that her stories were piled inside you, in endless stacks. Mom’s everyday life used to go on in a repeating loop, without a break. Her everyday words,...

Love without sacrifice is like theft

Sometimes talking to you is like talking to myself: pretty damned annoying.

Giving out of your surplus does not make you generous, it makes your selfishness more tolerable! Giving while you are lacking is what pleases the Lord.

Achieving a goal requires endurance and sacrifices beyond limitations.

She’s the only younger sibling I have. If something happens to her, I don’t see any reason why should I keep alive on this freaking Earth!

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

His voice caught. I choose you, Gretchen.Every time, I’ll choose you.

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....

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

Being our best involves walking away from every situation with less than what we had when we encountered it because we left something behind in the exchange.

Kufanikiwa katika maisha ni kuwa tayari muda wowote kujitoa mhanga kwa ajili ya kitu unachoweza kuwa.

The flowers left thick at nightfall in the woodThis Eastertide call into mind the men,Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, shouldHave gathered them and will do never again.

What Cuba has shown to the world is not only that we could play up to par with other major leaguers. We are not professional, we are amateur. We don’t get paid for doing this....

She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you’d given up the thing you most wanted.” Archer received this strange communication in silence....

Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I’m glad of it.

Why don’t people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don’t look like they are on the Calvary...

Open up your eyes for me people, the prophecies are true and the beast is real.

unkindness �of ravens”?

If someone had told Allie that she would commit a premeditated act of murder, she would not have believed it. She would have spouted off all the reasons how she could never be capable of...

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

Today we are getting part of the payoff, of your sacrifice, by seeing the last settlers leaving Gaza, … The credit for the evacuation is for you and for the martyrs who sacrificed themselves and...

Have the courage to let some go, and sacrifice for some to stay; thus, live and make life your own way.

The real achievers are those who, in the dreary pit of sacrifice, still smile up at the goal.

Life’s just a sacrifice, a ransomWe pay to Death for Love to save,Which turns to be as great as handsomeTo get a blessing from the grave.

Artists forget than the first purpose of a comic character is to convey emotion. Everything else, like realism, or other kinds of virtuosity, is an optional extra. If you sacrifice expression for the sake of...

WL’s [White Liberals] think all the world’s problems can be fixed without any cost to themselves. We don’t believe that. There’s a lot to be said for sacrifice, remorse, even pity. It’s what separates us...

I didn’t know if it was possible to kick someone hard enough to knock the cocky out of ’em, but for Rowan I was willing to try.

I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling.

I didn’t sacrifice everything for love, just my mother when love required a caesarian.

We won’t die. We’ll never die. I promise. He’d promise anything, meant it, would die defending this man, would live and die and suffer for him.

Before I go,” he said, and paused — “I may kiss her?”It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was...

I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial. Love is not blood and suffering. Love is not murdering...

… to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.

Artemis looked at Holly and felt a tremendous affection for her… he could properly appreciate how fierce and beautiful his best friend was…She is truly magical, thought Artemis. Perhaps her qualities are more obvious to...

You have to make sacrifices for the things you believe in. If you don’t, what’s the point in believing in anything?

People of God are always people who care about other people and it always comes at some cost.

The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, he said:’Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is...

He turns to leave, stops, looks back at me. “Just so you know: What you did for Victor means a lot to us. You could have left him to die.””No, Richard, I couldn’t.”I see in...

So che, rifiutando a mia volta di accettare un compromesso con i fondamentalisti e con i signori della guerra, o di annacquare le mie denunce nei loro confronti, protrò finire con l’essere annoverata anch’io nel...

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...

I became intent on saving him through showing him that he was loved.

If you hold on to what you want so tightly, it almost becomes an idol.

Some men can love forever, some for six years, some for six months, and others for six hours.

I haven’t been around here for long. Well… actually, I haven’t been around anywhere for long. I don’t know who I am, or what I’m here for. I know that Lord Umber’s important, though. I’ve...