J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

My life is so full of sacrifices.

Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.

Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-long hurts and losses, death itself - for some great good, dimly seen but dearly held.

A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, must empty ourselves.

There's a scene I particularly like in 'Betrayed' where Shane has been shot in the side. Yet he drives to a small airport, checks out the Rockfort plane and flies himself and Elena to safety. Only when he knows they are out of danger does he allow himself to sit down on the couch and admit he's injured - to a horrified Elena.

Every day, hundreds of thousands of men and women protect and serve, often putting their own lives at risk.

To save all we must risk all.

The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.

Not many of us are willing to give up everything we have.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Spare all I have, and take my life.

I'd take a bullet for just about anyone! If someone pulled out a gun, I'd step in front of you even though I've never met you.

Those with less of a sense of service to the nation never understand it when men and women of character step forward to look danger and adversity straight in the eye, refusing to blink, or give ground, even to their own deaths. The protected can't begin to understand the price paid so they and their families can sleep safe and free at night.

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

I've always seen first responders as unsung heroes and very special people because, when everyone else is running away from danger, they run into it.

They say time heals all wounds, but sometimes you wonder.

There's something very comforting in the fact that you're given this reminder that whatever it is, whatever situation you find yourself in, there are these people that will run into the danger to keep you safe.

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.

To get something you must give something away. To hold something you must give something away. To love something you must give something away.

Physical courage in whatever scene ... seems to hinge on whether the individual can feel he is fighting for others as well as himself.

These precious things, let them bleed.

I guess it's going to have to hurt, I guess I'm going to have to cry, And let go of some things I've loved to get to the other side I guess it's going to break me down, Like fallin when you try to fly, Sad but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life starts with goodbye

Pain, loss and separation are inevitable on the path of love, and the only way of avoiding them is by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you have to renounce love.It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.

You're demonstrating a courage that most people can't even fathom: giving it all away in order to have yourself

If you want to be given everything, give everything up.