Alice Munro Quotes

Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father.

We are all trying to balance our careers and children and give as much of ourselves and our time to them. You work and have a husband, and projects, and friends. It is a balancing act.

When you finally have kids, you realize how selfish you are. I think we are naturally selfish beings. When you have kids, that can kind of be a shock at first. I think just trying to make time for yourself is very hard. Especially now that I have 3, finding that time can be very difficult.

It's about self-sacrifice. Since having children, I've worked, but I've maintained the balance of being at home as well.

I've always put everybody else's child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame.

I don't see how a woman in documentary photography could have children. I think it's a very difficult thing to do to raise a family, and I have enormous respect for people who do it. I'd hate to do something like that and not be good at it.

I can't selfishly take journeys anymore because I have to take a little boy along with me.

By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.

I cannot tell people who are struggling that I come first. I just cannot.

I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood.

I have a lot of responsibilities outside myself. I have a large family. I want to know I can always be helpful.

My whole life has been nothing but trying to find a way to take care of my mom and take care of my family as quickly as possible.

I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband.

The worst thing you can do is to put your life aside for someone else.

As soon as I had a child, he became the priority. Now, I fit my training around him. I've changed as an athlete.

Over the years I have heard all the psychological analysis which says that habitually tardy people are narcissists and I don't buy it. I'm late because I am always trying to do one more thing for my family before I leave the door.

I cannot just do things without thinking. I have a wife and daughter to think of at all times now.

Every mom knows it's hard to take care of yourself while you're trying to take care of your children because, when you become a mother, you become so selfless.

You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.

Now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire family, as well as myself, my woman, and my team that I consider family.

Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

The decision to give ourselves to others is a daily taking up of the cross.

When love is involved no sacrifice is too great.

It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first.

The denial of ourselves which Christ has so diligently commanded his disciples from the beginning will at last dominate all the desires of our heart.