We humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entreched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bodies and blow ourselves up in the midst of our enemies. We are, when the cause is sufficient, insane.
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Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.
Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.
Forgivness is The ultimate sacrifice.Eloquence belongs, To the conqueror.
Forgivness is The ultimate sacrifice.Eloquence belongs, To the conqueror.
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater read more
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.
The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of read more
The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.
As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens read more
As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.
Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
Sacrificing your happiness for the happiness of the one you love, is by far, the truest type of love.
Sacrificing your happiness for the happiness of the one you love, is by far, the truest type of love.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
