“I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.”— Joyce Carol Oates, amazon.com
“So don’t sacrifice yourself, your self-worth, your sanity, and your respect, all in the name of holding onto someone who seems to love you only sometimes.”— Lacey Ramburger, thoughtcatalog.com
“Sacrificing who we are for the sake of what others think just isn’t worth it.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“She’s not the kind of girl you choose your battles for. She’s the kind of girl you fight to the death for.”— Colleen Hoover, amazon.com
“Nobody can help you. That’s what love’s all about… You’re the one having these wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you wander through the dark. Your mind and body have to bear it all. All by yourself.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“A knife is just a rock who was willing to reject 90% of its true self to achieve something.”— Tay Zonday, twitter.com
“If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant after all: sacrifice and selflessness. It did not mean hearts and flowers and a happy ending, but the knowledge that another's well-being is more important than one's own.”— Melissa de la Cruz, amazon.com
“I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“Real love brings pain. Real love means sacrifices and hurts and all the thousand shocks of life. But it also means beauty, true beauty.”— Anne Elisabeth Stengl, amazon.com
“When you care about somebody you do what's best for them even if it sucks for you.”— Elizabeth Meriwether, Schmidt, Max Greenfield, imdb.com
“For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. If my career were of that better kind that there was any opportunity or capacity of sacrifice in it, I would embrace any sacrifice for you and for those dear to you.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“I learned, however, that the loss of balance is ultimately more painful than the giving up required to maintain balance. It is a lesson I have continually had to relearn. As must everyone, for as we negotiate the curves and corners of our lives, we must continually give up parts of ourselves. The on…”— M. Scott Peck,, amazon.com
“She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they can help it--those are the real heroes.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com