Peter S. Beagle Quotes

Take care that all your offerings be free, and of your own, that has cost you something; so that ye may not offer of that which is another man's, or that which ye are entrusted withal, and not your own.

The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor.

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

I had sacrificed my entire life to play football.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Since I believe that a person's philosophical point of view has little meaning if it is not matched by being and action, I found myself willingly wed to an endless series of unpopular causes, experiences which I feel enriched my writing as much as they depleted other aspects of my life.

I am willing to make any part of my life public, if it will help others.

A lot of people, some of them close to me as well, have said that I sacrificed myself by doing what I did in bringing Terry on board. I didn't see it that way.

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.

I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.

You may judge for yourselves, without partiality, whether I have not sacrificed my life, my being, every minute of my time in order to make a nation of you.

For the higher interest of the nation, you've got to be capable of hurting yourself.

For the sake of calm in the country, I am ready to sacrifice my own sanity.

I think everything I've tried to do, whether or not it's come off that way immediately, is for the greater good. I'll take the jabs I need to in order to help us all in the long run.

It's always easier to sacrifice when you're not the one who has to do it.

Every journey toward a dream is personal, and as a result, so is the price that must be paid for it.

There is no hell like that of a selfish heart, and there is no misfortune so great as that of not being able to make a sacrifice. These two thoughts come to me strongly this morning. It is something to have learned these truths so that we can never again doubt them.

If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.

Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons--throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.

There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing.

I want to suffer so that I may love.

Real love will take you far beyond yourself;and therefore real love will devastate you.

What is to give light must endure burning.

The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us. When we begin to take the lowest places, to wash the feet of others, to love our brothers with that burning love, that passion which led to the cross, then we can truly say, 'Now I have begun'.

All spiritual journeys are martyrdoms