Oftentimes winning can become an addiction, whether good or bad, to the point where you would rather lose it all before you lose at all.

Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.

For I was sure of one thing, it wasn’t always the hero who saved the world. It was the person most willing to die first.

If you stay, I’ll do whatever you want. I’ll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I’ll do that, too. I was talking to Liz...

It takes practice to stand with others facing pain of death, and it helps if you don’t have to do it all alone. We should practice on the small stuff so that we will be...

The only honorable, desirable kind of fear that shouldn’t be feared is the fear of harm on a loved one. It’s the kind of fear that leads to self-sacrifice and the kind of fear where...

Amin, you’re not making sense to me. Things have always been this way, since the beginning of time. Some die so others can be saved. You don’t believe in the salvation of others?

The generation of American men who fought the Second World War were too struck by the scale of the effort – and the stakes of the effort – to see the war as a stage...

If we seek spiritual heroism ourselves, the old ego is just back in control under a new name. There would not really be any change at all, but only disguise, just bogus self-improvement on our...

Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

Sometimes love is not enough.

My mother told me that life isn’t always about pleasing yourself and that sometimes you have to do things for the sole benefit of another human being. I completely agreed with her, but reminded her...

You could run from someone you feared, you could try to fight someone you hated. All my reactions were geared toward those kinds of killers – the monsters, the enemies. When you loved the one...

Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.

Giving yourself is the ultimate revolution.

How far should a person go in the name of true love?

The more you offer yourself to make life better for someone, the more you empty yourself of the load of destiny you carry into the world. Serve till you empty all.

Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money. The giving of money has thus become our characteristic virtue....

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...

They say the only way you can truly kill a Celestra is by fire. I would gladly lend myself to the flames to peer down eternally over this sinful disgrace of a planet that houses...

Ik heb al zoveel over boord gegooid, dat ik wel eens kapseizen kon bij gebrek aan zwaarte.

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.

True love is generative. It is the only kind that makes more of itself as it goes along.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrsfor their religion–I have shuddered at it,I shudder no more.I could be martyred for my religion.Love is my religionand I could die for that.I could die for...

A great imperative imparts a wonderful impulse to the spirit.

Courtship is driven by hormones; marriage is sustained by humility and self-sacrifice.

Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

Happiness can be a confusing concept for Christians. On one hand, if we serve a good God who promises us a full and abundant life, shouldn’t we be happy? On the other hand, any careful...

You can sacrifice and not love. But you cannot love and not sacrifice.

Civilians who volunteer generally wish to escape, not to share, privatizations worse than their own.

At certain moments, the foot slips ; at others, the ground gives way. How many times had that conscience, furious for the right, grasped and overwhelmed him! How many times had truth, inexorable, planted her...

What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.

… self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling. It whirls its victim to destruction in the highest affirmation of his personality. The object doesn’t matter; it may...

One little second of pleasure, a whole life of pain…my mother knew nothing of the pleasures of a good roll in the hay…she missed out on all that…like me, her son…a lifetime of sacrifice!…the woman...

She put others before herself and yet you hate her. What did she do to you?

The sin of quick anger is an idol of the heart that is not dying to our own rights.

Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.

He was lost. He knew it. He had neither the size nor the strength to defeat her, and she had him cornered. But he would fight. He was a warrior, the prince-son of the unicorns,...

Those who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is the self-sacrifice, or selflessness, that peace more often than not requires. Those who insist on going by...

The goddess smiled. “You are a good hero, Percy Jackson. Not too proud. I like that. But you have much to learn. When Dionysus was made a god, I gave up my throne for him....

self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

I love you,” he whispered, and that was the moment he knew what he was going to do. When you loved someone, you put their needs before your own. No matter how inconceivable those needs...

Oh I know it’s cliché but yeah they say that great men make it in-To places few others who even do take the risk’ve ever been

Sadie,” he said forlornly, “when you become a parent, you may understand this. One of my hardest jobs as a father, one of my greatest duties, was to realize that my own dreams, my own...

If you are trading silence or compliance for love, you are being cheated. When acceptance or love is withheld if you reveal secrets, the value of the relationship is just an illusion. Love cannot be...