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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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.
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
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.
The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it.
The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it.
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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.
One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.
One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.
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No sacrifice short of individual liberty, individual self-respect, and individual enterprise is too great a price to pay for permanent peace.
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
