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«Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.»
«For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service»
Author: John Burroughs
(Essayist, Naturalist)
| Keywords:
currencies, currency, for anything, paper currency, promises, self-sacrifice, self-sacrificing
«For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice»
«Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.»
Author: Andrea Dworkin
| Keywords:
annihilation, bodily, celebration, celebrations, defined, female, fulfill, identity, masculinity, mythic, pornography, redeem, romantic, romantic love, self-sacrifice, self-sacrificing, submit, The Celebration, The Sacrifice, willingness
«Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
act, action, Act of, choose, choose up, desire, else, in that, limitation, reject, sacrifice, self-sacrifice, self-sacrificing, self, sense
«Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.»
Author: Woodrow T. Wilson
(President)
| Keywords:
absolute, loyalty, principle, sacrifice, self-sacrifice, self-sacrificing, The Absolute
«There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere man»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Fidelity,
Friendship,
Love,
Men
| Keywords:
brute, directly, fidelities, fidelity, frequent, gossamer, occasion, paltry, sacrificing, self-sacrificing, unselfish
«Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
blushed, blushes, blushing, enables, sacrifice, self-sacrifice, self-sacrificing
«The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passion are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine.»
«Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Self-sacrifice
| Keywords:
Miracles, reported, sacrifice, self-sacrifice, self-sacrificing
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