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“Success is sacrifice.”

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“All due respect to Romeo and Juliet, but I don’t think love is sacrifice at all. Real love is when you let another person make you better. You don’t lose yourself in love—you find yourself there.”

Book:The Dire King

Source: The Dire King

“Grief—in all of its agony—burrowed deep into her essence, its serrated edges killing her piece by piece.”

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Book:Dark Night of the Soul: A sacrifice to end a life; A rescue to save a soul.

Source: Dark Night of the Soul: A sacrifice to end a life; A rescue to save a soul.

“I yearn not for the easy path, but for the right path. For 'easy' and 'right' are rarely compatible.”

“Nothing shows our hearts like sacrifice. When we are willing not only to give from our excess, but to embrace some personal loss or disadvantage for the sake of showing generosity toward others, we say loudly and clearly…that we have a greater love than ourselves and our comforts.”

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Book:Habits of Grace: Enjoying Jesus through the Spiritual Disciplines

Source: Habits of Grace: Enjoying Jesus through the Spiritual Disciplines

“Have you ever, for even a second, thought about how hard it is for people like me just to stay alive?”

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Book:A Girl on the Shore

Source: A Girl on the Shore

“Rose pivoted. “Alainn, can I ask you something about ethics?” Alainn nodded, slowly. “Sure.” Rose’s inhuman eyes met hers, and she asked, “Would you die to save a million people?”

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Book:Ensnared

Source: Ensnared

“The kingdom of God is an upside-down kingdom. It beckons us to gamble all, to trust radically, to come and die so that we might live--to give our lives away. Giving life away is a paradox. It's losing so we can win. It's giving so we can receive. It's risking for security. It's faith. The kingdom of God means living that tension.”

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Book:Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live & Die for Bigger Things

Source: Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live & Die for Bigger Things

“Mladí lidé vždycky doufají, že jim ten, jemuž svěří své nadeje, přinese nějakou oběť.”

Book:Embers

Source: Embers

“Rose: A real sacrifice is giving up something you want or enjoy very much, isn't it? Alec: Yes. Rose: Doing it one's own self because one loves another person very much and wants her to be happy? Alec: Yes. Rose: And doing it pleasantly, and being glad about it, and not minding the praise if it doesn't come? Alec: Yes dear, that is the true spirit of self-sacrifice...”

Author:Louisa May Alcott

“Are you going to let me be eaten?' Billy Beecham looks stunned. 'Don't you know that sometimes Beast collectors get collected?' I ask him. 'But you're a virgin.' 'Virgins were never sacrifices,' I say. "Not to this kind of Beast. Virgin are collaborators.”

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Book:Unnatural Creatures

Source: Unnatural Creatures