{"quotes":[{"text":"As empaths, one of the quickest ways to completely losing our grounding in reality is by deferring our needs and wants in relationships.","author":"Mateo Sol","tags":["caring-for-others","emotional-intelligence","empath","empaths","highly-sensitive-people","intuition","self-sacrifice","sensitivity"],"id":3587,"author_id":"Mateo+Sol"},{"text":"- 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 resurrect him, to call him to nobler aims, to regenerate him into a new life and new activity. Well, everyone knows what can be dreamt up in that vein. I saw at once that the bird was flying into my net on its own.","author":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky","tags":["love-hurts","pity","self-sacrifice"],"id":13027,"author_id":"Fyodor+Dostoyevsky"},{"text":"To die trying is the proudest humans thing.","author":"Robert A. Heinlein","tags":["ministry","mortality","self-sacrifice"],"id":13214,"author_id":"Robert+A.+Heinlein"},{"text":"If we seek spiritual heroism ourselves, the old ego is just back in control under a new name. There would not really be any change at all, but only disguise, just bogus self-improvement on our own terms.","author":"Richard Rohr","tags":["ego","initiative","martyrdom","self-improvement","self-sacrifice"],"id":16071,"author_id":"Richard+Rohr"},{"text":"We could see that our mothers blackmailed us with self-sacrifice, even if we did not know whether or not they might have been great opera stars or toasts of the town if they had not borne us. In our intractable moments we pointed out that we had not asked to be born, or even to go to an expensive school. We knew that they must have had motives of their own for what they did with us and to us. The notion of our parents' self-sacrifice filled us not with gratitude but with confusion and guilt. We wanted them to be happy yet they were sad and deprived and it was our fault.","author":"Germaine Greer","tags":["children","parenting-advice","self-sacrifice"],"id":16978,"author_id":"Germaine+Greer"},{"text":"She put others before herself and yet you hate her. What did she do to you?","author":"Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz","tags":["empathy","hate","love","once-upon-a-time","self-sacrifice","selflessness","spite","television","the-huntsman"],"id":36752,"author_id":"Edward+Kitsis+and+Adam+Horowitz"},{"text":"True love is generative. It is the only kind that makes more of itself as it goes along.","author":"Timothy J. Keller","tags":["discipleship","self-sacrifice"],"id":53512,"author_id":"Timothy+J.+Keller"},{"text":"Yet, there is a sense of some deep sort that runs entirely contrary to human nature; that in putting ourselves first, we must by necessity put others first.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["first","greed","human","human-nature","necessity","sacrifice","self-centered","self-sacrifice","selfish"],"id":53841,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"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.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["common-sense","courage","grenade","hero","lack-of-common-sense","metaphorically-speaking","self-sacrifice","soldier"],"id":61623,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"For I was sure of one thing, it wasn't always the hero who saved the world. It was the person most willing to die first.","author":"R.K. Ryals","tags":["heroes","self-sacrifice"],"id":66844,"author_id":"R.K.+Ryals"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":67,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}