Getting what you want is not nearly as important as giving what you have.
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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.
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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.
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The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
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Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow
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Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself
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I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious in order to advance the political career of my husband
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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
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money. The giving of money has thus become our characteristic virtue. But to give is not to do. The money is given in lieu of action, thought, care, time.
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Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.
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A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.
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You can sacrifice and not love. But you cannot love and not sacrifice.
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If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.
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I have been astonished that men could die martyrsfor their religion--I have shuddered at it,I shudder no more.I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religionand I could die for that.I could die for you. My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet.
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How far should a person go in the name of true love?
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When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
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The sin of quick anger is an idol of the heart that is not dying to our own rights.
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They say the only way you can truly kill a Celestra is by fire. I would gladly lend myself to the flames to peer down eternally over this sinful disgrace of a planet that houses cowards such as these.
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Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.
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