Richelle Mead Quotes

It is impossible to do anything for anyone.

A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it.

I already gave my best.

I'm not saving lives.

The terrorists gave up their lives to kill people. Americans gave up their lives to save people.

We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.

America has a genius for great unselfish deeds, and into the hands of America, God has placed an afflicted mankind.

You can't save anybody.

Man, I wanna be there for everybody. I wanna make everybody happy, and I can't... That's why I stay in the studio.

I don't think I am hero material.

It's such a magnificent thing to be able to love someone and expect nothing from them.

Sacrificers ... are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those that they sacrifice. Oh, the sacrificers, they get it both ways. A person knows themselves that they're able to do without.

Intercession means that we deliberately substitute God’s interests in others for our natural sympathy with them.

Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck.

There is simply too much to be done for us all to go round 'enjoying ourselves.' When the world is perfect, then we can all sit down and eat jelly beans, but for now the fact that things are going well for you just means that you are in a position to alleviate someone else's suffering for a while.

He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!

You can give of your talent, you can give of your possessions, or you can give of yourself. For God's sake, give something.

If you truly love someone, then the only thing you want for them is to be happy....even if its not with you.

If what makes you happy is going out and living it up and spending all your money on wine, women, and song, the world doesn't need that. But on the other hand, if you give your life to good works - you go and work in a leper colony and it doesn't make you happy - the chances are you're not doing it very well.

I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment.

Did you know that true love asks for nothing?

Doing too much for others (often at their own expense), many persons are more 'human doings' than human beings.

I'm not claiming I'm a saint, but I have a genuine, genuine belief in trying to help others.

You made a sacrifice. And heaven rewarded you.

Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does for souls. Cheerfulness is often a cloak which hides a life of sacrifice and a continual union with God.