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Self-sacrifice

«The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.»
Author: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi | About: Self-sacrifice | Keywords: sacrifice
«I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious in order to advance the political career of my husband»
Author: Pat Nixon (First Lady) | About: Self-sacrifice | Keywords: sacrificed
«Getting what you want is not nearly as important as giving what you have.»
«There is a woman who spent her life loving that evil creature: she died. I'm sure she's a saint in heaven right now. You are going to kill me the way he killed that woman.That is what's in store for all of us who have unselfish hearts.»
Author: Arthur Rimbaud (Poet, Writer) | About: Love, Self-sacrifice | Keywords: died, killed
«Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself»
«Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth»
«Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow»