Quotes about Sacrifice

Real results come from putting your momentary needs on hold to pursue larger, more important goals.

People destroy what they love.

I needed to choose between the one thing that really filled m thoughts-my love for that woman-and losing my freedom and all the choices that the future promised me. To be honest, the decision was easy. -Lukas Jessen-Petersen

Freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with pleasure and a smile, even when that smile is dimmed with tears.

A Warrior of the Light makes decisions. His soul is as free as the clouds in the sky, but he is committed to his dream. On his freely chosen path, he often has to get up earlier than he would like, speak to people from whom he learns nothing, make certain sacrifices. His friends say: "You're not free." The Warrior is free. But he knows that an open oven bakes no bread.

I will be able to love above all discontentment. To give even when I am stripped of everything. To dry tears even when I am still crying. To believe even when I am discredited.

In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love.

Love is an act of faith, not an exchange.

She hated the love she had been given, because it had asked for nothing in return, which was absurd, unreal, against the laws of nature

Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.

When I die, bury me standing, because I've spent all my life on my knees!

We are used to thinking that what we give is the same as what we receive, but people who love, expecting to be loved in return, are wasting their time. Love is an act of faith, not an exchange.