“Contrary to popular stereotypes, seeking simplicity doesn't require that you become a monk, a subsistence forager, or a wild-eyed revolutionary. Nor does it mean that you must unconditionally avoid the role of consumer. Rather, simplicity merely requires a bit of personal sacrifice: an adjustment of your habits and routines within consumer society itself.” MeanDoeBitsRolesSacrificeHabitSimplicitySeekingContraryConsumersRevolutionaryStereotypeMonkAdjustmentSubsistencePersonal Sacrifice Author:Rolf Potts
“I think whatever it is you decide to do in life, if you want to be the very best at it, you have to be able to make sacrifices. Not everybody can do that and I think it makes our sportsmen and women that little bit special.” IfsThinkingWantLittlesAbleBitsCan DoSacrificeSpecialLittle BitMen And WomenSportsman Author:Jill Douglas
“Sometimes I feel like my childhood has been taken away from me just a tiny bit. But if you want to achieve your goals, you have to sacrifice some things.” IfsWantFeelsHas BeensSometimesBitsGoalTakenSacrificeChildhoodAchieveTinyAchieving Your Goals Author:Freddy Adu
“God forbid that Americans earning, say, more than $1 million a year be asked to pony up a little more in taxes to support a larger military at a time when, we are told over and over, the country is in the middle of a war on terror. Millionaires can't be asked to sacrifice even just a little bit. No, they deserve to have their taxes cut while others fight and die.” YearsLittlesWarCountryDiesFightingBitsMillionsSupportCuttingSacrificeMiddleMilitaryTaxesLittle BitDeserveTerrorEarningMillionaireWar On TerrorTax CutsPonies Author:E. J. Dionne
“I also think we need unconventional political action, and I increasingly think that there is a need for people of faith to be able to do the kind of things that people of faith did 40 years ago in the heat of the civil rights revolution. This is a moral issue of every bit as much importance requiring every bit as much sacrifice, courage, and energy as that crisis did.” PeopleThinkingNeedsYearsKindAbleActionPoliticalEnergyBitsMoralIssuesRightsSacrificeRevolutionYears AgoImportanceCrisisCivil RightsHeatUnconventionalMoral IssuesPolitical Action Author:Bill McKibben
“If you really want to make a relationship work, at some point in time, you're going to have to make some sacrifices and do some things that are a little bit uncomfortable.” IfsWantLittlesBitsSacrificeLittle BitUncomfortable Author:Ashton Kutcher
“In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We’re each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real. We’ve got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there is a lot of grey to work with. No one can live in the light all the time.” ArtRealLightPainRememberLyingChoicesFightingBitsDarkSacrificeRegretBalanceIllusionForgivingCrueltyGreyGood And BadLight And DarkSomething RealDark ArtChiaroscuro Book:A Great and Terrible Beauty Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
“He looked resigned, as though he knew that wretched door--to where? Home? Heaven? Peace?--would never open, and at the same time he seemed resolved, ready to do his bit even though he couldn't possibly know what sacrifices that would require. Had he been kept here, too--in a place he didn't belong, serving in a war in which he hadn't enlisted, to rescue sparrows and soldiers and shopgirls and Shakespeare? To tip the balance?” KnowsWarHomeHeavenBitsDoorsSacrificeReadyBalanceSoldierServingRescueWretchedSparrowsResignedEnlisted Book:All Clear Source: All Clear
“mostly we've had to found ways to amuse ourselves." "Really?" Valkyrie asked. "Like what?" Plight's smile faded. "Like human sacrifice." He grabbed one arm and Lenka grabbed the other and Valkyrie cried out. Then they both let go. laughing. "Naw," Plight said, we just play board games." ..."she fell for it!" gasped Lenka. "She fell for the human sacrifice bit!” WayHumansSaidPlayFoundGamesBitsLaughingSacrificeArmsLetting GoBoardsCriedFadedPlightBoard Games Author:Derek Landy
“If they had $2.00 for food, they had to give $1.00 to the union. Otherwise, they would never get out of the trap of poverty. They would never have a union because they couldn't afford to sacrifice a little bit more on top of their misery.” IfsGivingLittlesBitsPovertySacrificeLittle BitUnionsMiseryTraps Book:The Words of César Chávez Source: The Words of César Chávez
“The poor, you know, have a way of solving problems...they have a tremendous capacity for suffering. And so when you build a vehicle to get something done, as we've done here in the strike and the boycott, then they continue to suffer - and maybe a little bit more - but the suffering becomes less important because they see a chance of progress; sometimes progress itself. They've been suffering all their live.s It's a question of suffering with some kind of hope now. That's better than suffering with no hope at all.” KnowsWayKindLittlesImportantSometimesDoneProblemSufferingBitsChancePoorProgressSacrificeLittle BitCapacityStrikesVehicleProblem SolvingNo HopeBoycott Author:Cesar Chavez