Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

If your life was all you had to give your beloved, how could you not give it?

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

I would die for you. But I won't live for you.

For me, 'Lamb' started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in 'Coyote Blue' and 'Island of the Sequined Love Nun,' but it ended up being an exploration of the true meaning of sacrifice, loyalty, and friendship.

I think the most romantic thing you can do is just turn up. Turn up when it's difficult for you. Travel halfway around the world or just up the road. Whatever it is, just be there.

I will lay my bones by the Ganges that India might know there is one who cares.

My owner is life and that's what I fight for.

You can be committed to somebody because of ego: 'I said I was going to be with this joker for the rest of my life, so I'm just going to do it.' Or you can be committed because you have a deeply rooted connection.

My father instilled in me to take care of my family. Show up even when you don't want to show up.

My life has ever been devoted to her service from my youth up, though never before in a cause like this - a cause for which I would most cheerfully risk and lay down my life.

I would never leave my baby and my wife. I would die first before I leave them on the side of the road.

I've dedicated my life to my family.

I'd lay down my life for her - Mas'r Davy - Oh! most content and cheerful! She's more to me - gent'lmen - than - she's all to me that ever I can want, and more than ever I - than ever I could say. I - I love her true. There ain't a gent'lman in all the land - nor yet sailing upon all the sea - that can love his lady more than I love her.

At last I took one big, callused hand and slid forward so I knelt on the boards between his knees. I laid my head against his chest, and felt his breath stir my hair. I had no words, but I had made my choice. "'Whither thou goest,'" I said. "'I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried.' Be it Scottish hill or southern forest. You do what you have to; I'll be there.

I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.

Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.

Everything I went through," he said. "For you. It was worth it.

Devotion means your involvement with life is no more conditional.

Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice, He offers in another's enterprise; But more in Troilus thousand-fold I see Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be, Yet hold I off.

Our lives are not fully lived if we're not willing to die for those we love, for what we believe.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

Good Soldiers don't sacrifice the cause for love - Lucas If the cause isn't love then it isn't worth the sacrifice

It’s not like love at first sight, really. It’s more like… gravity moves. When you see her, suddenly it’s not the earth holding you here anymore. She does. And nothing matters more than her. And you would do anything for her, be anything for her… You become whatever she needs you to be, whether that’s a protector, or a lover, or a friend, or a brother.