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• Love is more than a noun-it is a verb; it is more than a feeling-it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing.

  William Arthur Ward

  Love, Inspirational, Caring

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• Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

  Thomas Merton

  Peace, War, Perfect

  Thomas Merton (2010). “The Nonviolent Alternative”, p.35, Macmillan

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• How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

  Eric Hoffer

  Self, Realization, Philanthropy

  "Thoughts of Eric Hoffer, Including: 'Absolute Faith Corrupts Absolutely'" by Eric Hoffer in The New York Times Magazine (p. 60), April 25, 1971.

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• Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?

  William Butler Yeats

  Broken Heart, Long, May

  "Easter 1916" l. 57 (1921)

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  I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

  Nathan Hale

  Inspirational, Life, Country

  Before being executed as a spy by the British, 22 September 1776, in Henry Phelps Johnston 'Nathan Hale, 1776' (1914) ch. 7.

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• Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Being Sad, Humanity, Purpose

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• Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice.

  Thomas Merton

  Peace, Heroism, Demand

  Thomas Merton (2010). “The Nonviolent Alternative”, p.35, Macmillan

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• This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form.

  Martin Buber

  Possibility, Form, Endless Possibilities

  Martin Buber (2004). “I and Thou”, p.16, A&C Black

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• The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

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• If God gives you an abundant harvest of trials, it is a sign of great holiness which He desires you to attain. Do you want to become a great saint? Ask God to send you many sufferings. The flame of Divine Love never rises higher than when fed with the wood of the Cross, which the infinite charity of the Savior used to finish His sacrifice. All the pleasures of the world are nothing compared with the sweetness found in the gall and vinegar offered to Jesus Christ. That is, hard and painful things endured for Jesus Christ and with Jesus Christ.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Jesus, Flames, Giving

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• Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Beautiful, Country

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• All artists are self-sacrificing human beings, and to become an artist is nothing but to devote oneself to the subterranean gods.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Artist, Self, Humans

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• Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Pain, Space, Firsts

  "Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  Love, Forgiveness, Attitude

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• I sacrifice in my love life and my social life, but those things will be there in three or four years. This is a really important time in my life. I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.

  Katy Perry

  Girl, Love Life, Years

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• Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

  Bertrand Russell

  Art, Responsibility, Ethics And Morals

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.164, Bertrand Russell

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• Let us here observe, that a religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things, never has power sufficient to produce the faith necessary unto life and salvation.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Doe, Salvation, Produce

  Joseph Smith Jr. (2010). “Lectures on Faith”, p.71, Cedar Fort

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• Was this all part of your plan as my lawyer? I don't recall explosive escapes being part of the legal training." "Well, I'm sure it wasn't part of Damon Taru's legal training.

  Richelle Mead

  Training, Lawyer, Damon

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.32, Penguin

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• Тhere isnʹt much I wouldnʹt do for you. Тhe stupider, the better.

  Richelle Mead

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• Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Freedom, Liberty, Civil Liberties

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• By thetest of our faith thehighest standard ofcivilization is the readiness to sacrifice for others.

  David Lloyd George

  Standards, Readiness, Sacrifice For Others

  1914 Speech in Queen's Hall, London, 21 Sep.

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• In art as in life the valid sacrifices are those that bring no income.

  Jean Rostand

  Art, Income

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• However exquisite the contours or the colours of clouds, trees, rivers or hills, may be in themselves, they must be sacrificed if they do not conform with the general plan.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Clouds, Rivers, Tree

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• Art, not unlike raising children... may entail much sacrifice and periods of despair, but, with luck, the effort will produce something that outlives you.

  Michael Kimmelman

  Art, Children, Effort

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• I thought you had to give up a lot for art, and you did. It required complete concentration. It also required that whatever money you had had to be put into art materials.

  Alice Neel

  Art, Giving Up, Concentration

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