Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.
How far should a person go in the name of true love?
Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
In the end she felt pity for me, for the lost man. And when a girl's heart is moved to pity, that is, of course, most dangerous for her. She's sure to want to save him then, to bring him to reason, to...
Sadie, he said forlornly, when you become a parent, you may understand this. One of my hardest jobs as a father, one of my greatest duties, was to realize that my own dreams, my own goals and wishes,...
To die trying is the proudest humans thing.
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
At certain moments, the foot slips ; at others, the ground gives way. How many times had that conscience, furious for the right, grasped and overwhelmed him! How many times had truth, inexorable, plan...
Self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling. It whirls its victim to destruction in the highest affirmation of his personality. The object doesn't matt...
On my license, it says I'm an organ donor, but the truth is I'd consider being an organ martyr. I'm sure I'm worth a lot more dead than alive - the sum of the parts equal more than the whole. I wonder...
Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.
He had grown so accustomed to feeling tired that he took a certain pleasure in it, the pleasure of someone who has given up, the pleasure of someone who, when the moment of truth arrives, turns back t...
When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
I love you, he whispered, and that was the moment he knew what he was going to do. When you loved someone, you put their needs before your own. No matter how inconceivable those needs were; no matter...
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