"The word sacred comes from sacrifice, to cut up. That means that in order to have a sacred journey, you have to give up something, sacrifice; but few people today in the West want to hear about that. Americans want the boon without the labyrinth.Pilgrimage starts the wheel, it turns the wheel of samsara, the wheel of life, and we have to live with the consequences."

-- Anthony Lawlor

#Giving Up Quotes #Mean Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes

“I don't hate cats...as long as they stay on the freeway, where they belong.”
“God's love never ceases. Never... God doesn't love us less if we fail or more if we succeed. God's love never ceases.”
“I finally managed to try to do away with myself, as neatly and concisely as possible. I would rather die young leaving various accomplishments, some work, my friendship with you, and some other artifacts intact, instead of pell-mell erasing all of these delicate things.”
“There was nothing else to do but call upon the Creator, praying, begging, pleading, bargainingâ€”anything to make him protect Xavier. I couldnâ€™t have him ripped away from me like that. I could survive emotional turmoil; I could survive the most intense physical torture. I could survive Armageddon and holy fire raining down upon the earth, but I could not survive without him.”

Source : Alexandra Adornetto (2011). “Hades”, p.63, Macmillan
“I will never have a life with Gale even if I want to.”
“We need a new religion.”
“So Crake never remembered his dreams. It's Snowman that remembers them instead. Worse than remembers: he's immersed in them, he'd wading through them, he's stuck in them. Every moment he's lived in the past few months was dreamed first by Crake. No wonder Crake screamed so much.”
“I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.”

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