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“In myths the warrant of grace was the acceptance of sacrifice; it is this acceptance that love, the re-enactment of sacrifice, beseeches if it is not to feel under a curse.”

Ifs Love Feels Grace Sacrifice Acceptance Myth Curse Warrants

Book:Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

“One thing is certain: the humility of faith, if it is followed by the proper consequences-by the acceptance of the work and sacrifice demanded by our providential task-will do far more to launch us into the full current of historical reality than the pompous rationalizations of politicians who think they are somehow the directors and manipulators of history.”

Ifs Thinking Reality Certain One Thing Sacrifice Acceptance Humility Politician Directors Consequence Tasks Historical Currents Pompous Manipulator

Author:Thomas Merton

“We all have to lead our own life, and we only have the one life, and the only people who can live life not according to their own desires are those who have no desires--which is the majority, actually. People can say what they like, they can speak of abnegation, sacrifice, generosity, acceptance, and resignation, but it's all false. The norm is for people to think that they desire whatever comes to them, whatever they achieve along the way or whatever is given to them--they have no preconceived desires.”

People Thinking Way Desire Speak Given Sacrifice Achieve Acceptance Majority Generosity Live Life Norm Resignation Abnegation

Author:Javier Marías

“You solve it as you get older, when you reach the point where you've tasted so much that you can somehow sacrifice certain things more easily, and you have a more tolerant view of things like possessiveness (your own) and a broader acceptance of the pains and the losses.”

Pain Certain Loss Views Sacrifice Acceptance Solve Possessiveness

Book:Letters of Ted Hughes

Source: Letters of Ted Hughes

“Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.”

Ideas Self Sacrifice Danger Example Acceptance Absolutes Elevating Sacrificing Everything

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice, not to the annals of a stage, however dignified.”

Self History Sacrifice Acceptance Greatness Self Sacrifice Great Women

Author:Leigh Hunt

“I'm not going to sacrifice my mental health to have the perfect body.”

Body Perfect Sacrifice Acceptance Mental Health

Author:Demi Lovato

“Combination does not produce though mergers and combinations are still the accepted panacea. In Big business there appears to be increasing aridity, bureaucracy, and stultifying sacrifice of initiative and above all fear.”

Doe Stills Bigs Science Sacrifice Acceptance Produce Productions Accepted Combination Initiative Bureaucracy Big Business Panacea Mergers

Author:Reginald Fessenden