The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it. – Elder Cloward Category: Sacrifice
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. Its a spiritual dissipation. – Margaret Deland Category: Sacrifice
The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice. – Mahatma Gandhi Category: Sacrifice
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. – Max Beerbohm Category: Sacrifice
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French Category: Self-Discovery
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration. – Charles Dickens Category: Housewarming
I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty. – Jane Smiley Category: War
Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now. – Margaret Atwood Category: power