“He who loathes war, and will do everything in his power to avert it, but who will, in the last extremity, encounter its perils, from love of country and of home--who is willing to sacrifice himself and all that is dear to him in life, to promote the well-being of his fellow-man, will ever receive a worthy homage.” MenWellsWarCountryHomeLastsSacrificeWillingFellowsDearWorthyWell BeingEncountersPatriotismFellow ManPerilHomageLoatheExtremityAvert Author:John Stevens Cabot Abbott
“Men who have sacrifice their well-being, and even their lives, for the cause of truth or the public good, are, from an empirical point of view - which scorn ("fait fi", Fr.) virtue and altruism - regarded as insane or fools; but, from a moral standpoint, they are heros who do honour ("qui honorent", Fr.) humanity.” MenWellsHumanityCausesViewsMoralVirtueSacrificeFoolHeroPoint Of ViewInsaneWell BeingHonourAltruismScornStandpointPublic Good Author:African Spir
“To make a real independent film where the filmmaker is in charge creatively, one must sacrifice personal, financial, and physical well-being.” WellsRealFilmSacrificeIndependentFinancialWell BeingFilmmakerIndependent Film Author:Mark Polish
“In the Christian sense, love is not primarily an emotion but an act of the will. When Jesus tells us to love our neighbors, he is not telling us to love them in the sense of responding to them with a cozy emotional feeling. You can as well produce a cozy emotional feeling as you can a cough or sneeze. On the contrary, he is telling us to love our neighbors in the sense of being willing to work for their well-being even if it means sacrificing our well-being to that end.” IfsWellsMeanEndsFeelingsChristianJesusLove IsEmotionSacrificeProduceEmotionalWillingNeighborContraryWell BeingRespondingCozy Book:Wishful thinking: a theological ABC. Source: Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.
“If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant after all: sacrifice and selflessness. It did not mean hearts and flowers and a happy ending, but the knowledge that another's well-being is more important than one's own.” IfsWayWellsHeartMeanSaidImportantWholeWantedSacrificeFlowerWell BeingSelflessnessHappy Endings Book:Lost In Time: Number 6 in series Source: Lost In Time: Number 6 in series
“I just want to be happy. And I find that people that have the least in life are sometimes the happiest. And I don't have the least in life. I have enough in life. And I won't sacrifice my health for that.” PeopleWantInspirationalSometimesEnoughMotivationalSacrificeHealthySuicideWell BeingSuicidal ThoughtsWant To Be HappyI Just Want To Be HappyJust Want To Be Happy Author:John Moffitt