Alice will always be a beautiful mystery. It is one I am content not to solve.I can love her now in her lovely darkness.” -Amalia Milthorpe

Drizzt looked long and hard at the young woman, tje dedicated warrior, and he understood that Danica, too, had been forced into a great sacrifice because of Cadderly’s choice. He sensed an anger within her,...

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,...

In sharp contrast with our culture, the Bible teaches that the essence of marriage is a sacrificial commitment to the good of the other. That means that love is more fundamentally action than emotion. But...

Vengeance cannot abide the agony of grace.

Blood fills my mouth. Fire sears my veins. I choke back a howl. The silver knife slips–thechoice is mine.I am death or life. I am salvation or destruction. Angel or demon.I am grace.I plunge in...

In times like these, a journalist’s contribution to his country is measured in terms of illustrious commitment and sacrifice, … There was no one more devoted to his calling than David Bloom and for that...

There’s something tightly woven throughout the fabric of our humanity that runs entirely opposite to the baser instinct of looking out for our own good.

If they knew how much you kept inside to keep from hurting them, but hurting yourself instead, maybe they’d love you more.

I’ll walk through the fireWith my head lifted highAnd my spirit revivedIn Your story

Patriotism is a tricky way that neutralizes the life instinct — Eros; you give your life as a sacrifice for others who never share even their wealth with you. The irony is that even their...

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.

She made a sound of regret. ‘We come second, you and I, Luc-ien,’ she said. ‘Our allegiance is always to our kingdoms. Without that allegiance, our people would fall.’She placed her head back against his...

I’ve been thinking of something your father said – that the true measure of love is what one is willing to give up for it. He was talking about freedom – fighting for liberty. But...

Maybe that’s what love is—sacrificing yourself to save another, taking the insult or taking the hit.

For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers. My heart is blighted and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food. In my distress, I groan aloud and am reduced...

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 gave...

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...

Have you ever stopped to ponder the amount of blood spilt, the volume of tears shed, the degree of pain and anguish endured, the number of noble men and women lost in battle so that...

Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its...

It’s a shame how much artists have to bleed for people to enjoy their work.

Was it permitted to believe that there was nowhere upon the earth, or above the earth, a heaven for hogs, where they were requited for all this suffering? Each one of these hogs was a...

We sacrifice our potential because we do not know that we are pure potential.

You know you love something if you’re willing to die for it, and you know it means nothing if you walk away from that which is dying.

Hereby perceive we the love of God, because He laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.” How often I think of that ‘ought.’ No sugary...

The underlying logic of sacrifice was always the same: In order to gain the god’s goodwill, destroy what you value most.

If I am always standing at the bottom of the mountain longingly looking up, in all probability it is because I have heeded the pillaging dogma of mediocrity which persistently tells me that the dream...

Special Logan Kiss…Yeah, but you didn’t know that I’d recited how i felt for you right then, in that moment, in my mins. The words flowed silently, so easily. There’s no mistaking them. When I...

I’m a cactus but I will only offer you flowers.

To all those who care, You can’t forever. Time steals the years,And your reflection in the mirror.But I can still see the story in your eyes, And your timeless passion that’s never died.While your skin...

I refuse to dedicate my life to posterity. Surely one owes as much to the current generation as to one’s unwanted children. What a fate – to grow rotund and unseemly, to lose my self-love,...

I gave him everything from my lunches I hate, which is called Charity.

I will love you like God, because of God, mighted by the power of God. I will stop expecting your love, demanding your love, trading for your love, gaming for your love. I will simply...

As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation — either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative...

Someone has to be stoic, for the sake of, in spite of, and in the face of all those who are, not. Someone, has to be serious. Someone has to choose to forgo choice, so...

Selfish Apologies Aren’t Apologies at All

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.

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.

No price is too high to pay, to be the author of your fate.

If the ultimate goal is lasting love, women are going to have to become comfortable with sacrifice and capitulation. Because those are the underpinnings of a long-term marriage – for both sexes.

If you think it is spiritual to burn food in front of starving people in hopes that your gods will bring this back to you in triplicate, you are missing the point and sowing animosity...

How much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve the level of success you desire?

He couldn’t look back at the children. He couldn’t think of it. All he could do was watch the eyes of his wife.He pulled her to him, her body soft, her skin warm. She was...

My father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for.

No it was my choice. It’s what I wanted to do. And I knew they’d probably send me to Iraq. It’s not like anybody lied to me.”She groans. “Billy, all these mofos ever do is...

Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

A Godly mother`s seed of faith yields a bounty of faithfulness.

If I give with the motive to get, regardless of the degree to which that motive besets me, I will walk away impoverished and I will leave those to whom I have given just as...

Wakati mwingine inaweza kuonekana kuwa kadiri unavyozidi kujitolea kwa ajili ya watu wengine ndivyo unavyozidi kuwa maskini, lakini hii si kweli. Huduma kwa ajili ya watu wengine huleta maana fulani na ukamilifu katika maisha yetu...