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“There's no generosity without some sacrifice.” Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
“suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.” Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
“Sacrifice! What do I sacrifice? Famine for food, expectation for content. To be privileged to put my arms round what I value—to press my lips to what I love—to repose on what I trust: is that to make a sacrifice? If so, then certainly I...” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“Let us sacrifice one day in order to gain our whole lives, perhaps.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.” Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
“Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.” Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet In Heaven
“Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed. It is the unsacrificed self that we must respect in man above all.” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
“No country sacrifices its men without reason, and certainly not in the interests of another” Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
“I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds. I am not a sacrifice on their altars. I am a man.” Ayn Rand, Anthem
“I'm not going to die with you just because you made lunch for me. Of course, if it had been dinner.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although...” William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets
“the freedom struggle was not merely a question of making speeches, holding meetings, passing resolutions, and sending deputations, but of meticulous organization, militant mass action, and, above all, the willingness to suffer and sacrifice.” Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
“what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying” Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
“ there have been times when brave men have killed their wives and their womenkind, to keep them from falling into the hands of the enemy.” Bram Stoker, Dracula
“The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.” David Foster Wallace, This Is Water
“Sorry I will never know him... but he will know why I died and I hope he will understand. I was trying to make a world in which he could live a happier life.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“Can I go forward when my heart is here?” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“My fellow Americans, I stand before you today, humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices born by our ancestors.” Barack Obama, Inaugural Address
“success can only be one ingredient in happiness, and is too dearly purchased if all the other ingredients have been sacrificed to obtain it.” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
“every man is not bound to imperil his own body for his neighbor's safety: this belongs to the perfect” Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
“Nature can’t evolve a species that hasn’t a will to survive. Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never decide to cease to exist.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
“There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes,...” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“Many of the boys I saw in hospitals are now leading happy and useful lives, but they carry with them, day after day, the results of the war. If we do not achieve the ends for which they sacrificed—a peaceful world in which there exists freedom...” Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
“But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art.” Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted.” Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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