Simon Van Booy Quotes

There is no love without sacrifices.

You give up your narcissism, your egotism. That's how you achieve chemistry.

Learning to not be selfish is what has changed in me the most since being married.

Say you want to be with someone, and you're doing something that they don't really like. They're gonna ask you to stop it, just for a moment to take a look at them, to see them clearly. That's what God wanted for me.

Sacrifice really means giving up something good for something better.

Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

It's really hard to be a servant leader because we come into this world as a baby in a self-survival mode. Life is a journey toward service.

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

Forgiveness is a sacrifice. You're giving up being right about something, whether you're right or wrong about it.

Sacrifice is the surrender of that which you value in favor of which you dont

We ought to be people of compassion. And being people of compassion means we deny ourselves, and our self centeredness.

To love someone means that you sometimes are fulfilled the most by putting thier deepest desires above your own.

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.

You couldn't give up you for them. But what if you wanted them more than you wanted a singular powerful you?

Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in.

The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex.

You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.

My life is so full of sacrifices.

It's not about me, it's about my family. You don't answer questions for you, but for us. You learn to live beyond yourself.

Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more…to give way to the happiness of the person you love.

Giving up something personal to the public, you are surrendering something.

I think the thing about love is that even though the things around us change, we as human beings, a lot of the ways we interact, and the ways we love each other is timeless. It requires trust, honesty, commitment, romance, and physical chemistry.