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“Oh, my child, can you not see? You must let go of yourself. For if a seed wishes to live, it must sacrifice itself and grow outward, not inward.”

Book:Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern

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“It was not in her nature to stop short at half-measures, not to pause when once she had fixed her purpose. If she ever trembled on looking forward to the utter ruin she was about to encounter, her second emotion was to despise herself for such pusillanimity, and to be roused to renewed energy.”

Purpose Goal Sacrifice Ambition Resolution

Book:Lodore

Source: Lodore

“I have found the more worthwhile something is, the more of your life is required to achieve it.”

Sacrifice Achievement

Book:The Tao of Jiu Jitsu

Source: The Tao of Jiu Jitsu

“I mean it, it’s another gap in your education. Until you can learn to understand her, you’ll get nowhere as a detective. She’s everybody’s conscience, Bob—the universal maiden aunt, cousin or sister. Humanity’s backbone. Throughout history, she’s gone to the stake for you again and again; not with any sense of heroism, but as a matter of principle and because it would never occur to her to do anything else.”

Sacrifice Hero Conscience Heroism Womanhood Heroine British Womanhood

Book:Picture Miss Seeton

Source: Picture Miss Seeton

“Love gives us happiness, peace then it gives us a lot of pain and you also have to sacrifice your happiness, then you began to hate that person, so fall for friendships. Respect each other’s space and styles, then hangout and enjoy”

Love Pain Happiness Peace Sacrifice Friendships Hating Styles Hangout

Book:Friendship, Love & Sacrifice

Source: Friendship, Love & Sacrifice

“Sometimes you sacrifice too much. You find yourself out on a limb and not knowing really quite how to get back down the tree. But it’s the space that you’re in because you have taken the risk. I’m not unaware of the sacrifices and, at times, whom your compassion hurts. It’s not all moving in one direction. It’s complicated, as the work is complicated.”

Sacrifice

Author:Carrie Mae Weems

“The road from white belt to black is long and arduous; most never reach the end. There are simply too many obstacles of daily life, and too much effort and attention required, for this to be something that the majority of practitioners achieve. This is why a black belt in Jiu Jitsu, especially from a reputable source, is the pinnacle of martial arts rank. It is valuable because of what must be traded for its achievement.”

Growth Sacrifice Adversity Martial Arts Jiu Jitsu Black Belt

Book:The Tao of Jiu Jitsu

Source: The Tao of Jiu Jitsu

“And so she cut out her heart and offered it as a sacrifice. She would pay whatever price her mother Wallachia demanded. “Make me prince,” she said without feeling.”

Sacrifice Lada Dragon Of Wallachia

Book:And I Darken

Source: And I Darken

“I must send you into exile, that you may be the coal of her heart. No real thing can be so perfect as memory, and she will need a perfect thing if she is to survive. She will warm herself on the memory of you when there is nothing else, and be sustained.”

Love Sacrifice

Author:Scott Hawkins, The Library at Mount Char

“When you spend any time at all paying attention to the proclivities of the natural world, you realize that nature has no problem including in its sorority the dead, dying, and ailing as fully as the lovely, healthy, and whole.”

Whole Death Spirituality Nature Holistic Thinking Natural Cycles

Book:Radical Joy for Hard Times: Finding Meaning and Making Beauty in Earth's Broken Places

Source: Radical Joy for Hard Times: Finding Meaning and Making Beauty in Earth's Broken Places

“For the greater good": the phrase that always precedes the greatest evil.”

Sacrifice Ethics Haiku Greater Good

Author:Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

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