sacrifices

All I want to tell young people is that you're not going to be anything in life unless you learn to commit to a goal. You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices.

Stop setting yourself on fire for people who just stand to watch you burn.

It__ important to know that you're behind, to be able to convince yourself to make sacrifices that get you ahead.

But, ladies and gentlemen, we will also be asked to make sacrifices in matters that are not our affair and that do not concern us, sacrifices that would leave our people bleeding or wounded, or even dead, from battle. There is no equality for us in this lifetime.

Harry, you wonderful boy, you brave, brave man.

...We understood nothing at all. Not what it meant to wish for a miracle... nor its price.

Sacrifices will make you a martyr, victories will make you a hero.

I am thankful that to be attuned to the needs of another attunes us to the world, and that if I stay attuned only to my needs I will always be a stranger to the world.

The most benevolent souls are the one's who have had to drink some of life's worst poisons, yet protected others in their lives from ever having to taste them.

If someone you love asks you to give up something you love, don't do it.

If I__ asking what kind of __eturn_ I should be expecting on the sacrifices I__ making, I have in that question revealed the need to __eturn_ that question to wherever I found it and have the word __eturn_ edited out of it.

Not everyone who has helped or is helping you wanted or wants to help you.

After everything, you still want to believe that love prevails, that in the end there will be justice. That is an illusion, and I pity you.

Sometimes love is not enough.

After Nicholas hung up the phone, he watched his mother carry buckets and garden tools across the couch grass toward a bed that would, come spring, be brightly ablaze as tropical coral with colorful arctotis, impatiens, and petunias. Katherine dug with hard chopping strokes, pulling out wandering jew and oxalis, tossing the uprooted weeds into a black pot beside her.The garden will be beautiful, he thought. But how do the weeds feel about it? Sacrifices must be made.

The length of one's journey to success is quite irrelevant if one has several reasons why the rewards at the very end of it is worth every sacrifice.

The greatest gains that we will ever experience arise from the greatest sacrifices that we have ever known.