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"The greatest freedom in this world is a sense of self detached from appearances so that we may sacrifice today's comforts for tomorrow's opportunities."
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"There is no rank in sacrifice."
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"Just as God expressed his great love by giving his son to die for our redemption, so we will express our love for God by giving to others."
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"Be prepared to die to self and to give up everything for the Gospel's sake, even to give up the most precious thing you have, your life."
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"People don't want words, as seductive, pleasant and warming as they can be. People want to see that they're worth some sacrifice or some great deed. And it's not that people are always worth it, it's that love is."
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"It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain."
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"It was a star," Mrs. Whatsit said sadly. "A star giving up its life in battle with the Thing. It won, oh, yes, my children, it won. But it lost its life in the winning."
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"Delaware's firefighters put their lives in jeopardy every day in an effort to keep families safe."
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"They paid the ultimate price and we can never forget their sacrifice."
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"Working for your boss doesn't make you rich, it only makes your boss richer from your sweat."
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"Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as well as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born. What would the world be like without music or rivers or the green and tender grass? What would this world be like without dogs?"
Happiness
"Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response."
Sacrifice
"We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up."
Happiness
"And now you'll be telling storiesof my coming backand they won't be false, and they won't be truebut they'll be real."
Storytelling
"I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write."
Time
"It does no good to bark at the television,I said. I've tried it too. So he stopped."
Humor
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
Purpose
"Though I play at the edges of knowing, truly I know our part is not knowing, but looking, and touching, and loving."
Wonder
"Poetry is meant to be heard."
Poetry
"The sweetness of dogs (fifteen) What do you say, Percy? I am thinkingof sitting out on the sand to watchthe moon rise. Full tonight.So we goand the moon rises, so beautiful it makes me shudder, makes me think abouttime and space, makes me takemeasure of myself: one iotapondering heaven. Thus we sit,I thinking how grateful I am for the moon's perfect beauty and also, oh! How richit is to love the world. Percy, meanwhile, leans against me and gazes up intomy face. As though I werehis perfect moon."
Companionship
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