Sentences with phrase «living lives of sacrifice»

We have sports heroes, movie heroes, music heroes — but when it comes to living truly heroic lives, it's our servicemen and servicewomen in the military that truly earn that title by living lives of sacrifice on behalf of others,» Nayquonabe said.

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What looks like deprivation and sacrifice, when following your deepest values, becomes the most meaningful and purposeful parts of your life.
Others often sacrificed personal needs at the expense of a healthy work - life balance.
The harsh personal sacrifices demanded by the creative life litter the biographies of great artists.
Here's how to get the best rest of your life - without sacrificing performance.
This kind of «hustle porn,» as Ohanian put it, often establishes an unhealthy standard for entrepreneurs to live by, reinforcing the idea that they need to sacrifice their health to be successful.
It might seem quirky — or even strange — for such an incredibly wealthy man to live so frugally, but Buffett doesn't sacrifice his preferences because of what's expected of him.
In the end, it's a small amount of time to sacrifice compared to the happiness it will give you for the rest of your life.
Family and our personal health frame our lives in meaning, without which none of the sacrifices of a startup matter.
There's no way to build a business without making some sacrifices in other areas of your life.
«We all enter the program with busy careers and social lives, and then we inject 20 to 30 hours of homework and 16 hours of classroom time... and the only way we can accommodate the new demands is by making sacrifices in droves.»
«So for me, enabling people to work out without sacrifice is just really going to change how people live the rest of their lives
And finally, it emphasized love and gratitude for the lives they've been allowed to live because of the earlier sacrifices made on their behalf.
But individuals who are willing or able to sacrifice some basic aspects of normal life, such as sleep or friends and family time, to pursue these extreme sports are the ones who have the mettle to succeed when faced with entrepreneurial challenges.
Instead of forcing employees to sacrifice their personal lives, startup employers need to create more work - life balance at their companies.
One thing they've told me repeatedly is that the best way to honor that sacrifice is to remember those who gave their lives — and to live lives worthy of them.
Last summer, Chief Peter Moonias said he would sacrifice his own life if need be, to block construction of a bridge over the Attawapiskat River.
When the expectation from the top down is that people's personal or family lives have to be sacrificed for the job as evidenced by 50 - hour - plus workweeks, little or no vacation time, and 24/7 availability for work communication, you've reached the height of a toxic workplace.
Startup pressure is a product that needs to launch today because it was originally supposed to launch three months ago, and if it doesn't launch today you're going to fire a whole lot of people who sacrificed and turned down more - secure ways to make a living because they believed in you.
They rely on daily deal services like Groupon and they are willing to sacrifice other expenses like designer fashion, cars, and meals out at fancy restaurants to acquire the items they find necessary for their daily lives, according to the Department of Labor Consumer Price Index for 2011.
A common way to combat this is to live with parents longer, which is a sacrifice on both the part of the parents and young professional (parents giving up space / resources, young professional giving up freedom).
It doesn't show you how to retire early, live on a lot of money, and make no sacrifices.
Haskins and Prescher share in clear detail how retirees can spend just a fraction of what their day - to - day life costs today yet sacrifice nothing when it comes to quality, comfort, and safety.
While it can be difficult to end a toxic relationship, friendship or get out of your comfort zone to start a new one, you'll be far better off in the long run if you know what you want and pay the daily price — the hard work and sacrifice — to bring it to life.
By leveraging some advantages that our college provides in terms of housing and healthcare as well as making some sacrifices (to live in the student housing which not have great location and accommodations), we are able to stay debt free and build our net worth.
I am, indeed, deeply regretful of the fact that you were not allowed to be compelled to sacrifice your life for the good of everyone else the way that men are required to do, and I have actually been a very vocal advocate for women to be allowed into combat conditions — indeed, to lead combat platoons.
This might be too much of a sacrifice for the true - blue coffee lover, but if you could go either way, keep in mind that a cup of tea brewed at home can cost as little as four cents per cup, compared to 12 - 43 cents for less - than - fancy home - brewed coffee, according to Living Stingy.
Thanks to a lower cost of living, this has been a lot easier to accomplish in Grande Prairie than it would be in Vancouver, but it does require some sacrifices.
Though salarymen worked extremely long hours and were expected to provide the utmost loyalty and sacrifice to their corporation, they were rewarded with thoroughly middle class lifestyles and promises of lifetime employment — a significant step - up from the very humble lives that most Japanese lived before World War Two.
A narrative by campaign organizer Mandy Goodman read: «A kind, caring hero sacrificed his life to save the lives of children.
Garner specifically mentioned how he's going to feel the absence of coach Aaron Feis, who sacrificed his life to save students.
SEATTLE — For most of its life, Amazon sacrificed profits if it could build another few warehouses to ship orders to customers more quickly or find some other investment to fuel its growth.
Generally, one member of a couple would need to live into their late 80s for the increased benefits from deferral to offset the benefits sacrificed from age 62 to 70.
«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»
«The most important and fulfilling thing in my day to day life is taking care of my five children, who are ages 3 - 13 but on the business side, it's knowing CSSCS has so quickly made a difference in people's lives that makes the sacrifices I have made all worthwhile.
NOt unorthodox!!!! Its about sacrifice or just making an extra effort in your daily life in remembrance of what God has done for us... whether it be good deeds, praying more, spending less on vices or earthly pleasures, etc...
I have been very blessed in my life, and these very tiny self sacrifices are a way to give thanks and remind me that it is through the Grace of God (my words / my belief) that I am even here.
If children and infants were killed it was quick and better than a life of live sacrifice in red hot arms or growing up blood thirsty and wicked.
your god asked for human sacrifice in order to save his flawed creatures he designed and then promised to burn forever 99 % of all humans that ever lived.
The Amalekites as you recall offered live sacrifice of infants and children into the red hot bronze arms of their fertility god while they danced and had orgies.
Talking snakes, talking donkeys, a boat at sea for half a year with a couple million animals, a temple less than 5000sq feet taking 150,000 workers and 7 years to complete, and then sacrificing 14 animals a minute for 7 days straight, a virgin birth story (like there weren't already a few of them before), a zombie invasion that no third party seemed to witness, a dude living in the belly of a fish for a couple days, a guys last words (before become back as a zombie) being «My god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me.»
Christians believe that a faith in Jesus, his sacrifice and proof of life after death is a complete «remission / cure» to the fate of «separation from God» which is the horriblest thing that can happen to the «core» you.
But why would the creator of life require the blood sacrifice of the one perfect man in order for God to be able to accept us.
Self - important simpletons commonly hate anyone that isn't bound to the «moral» standards of verses such as Leviticus 20:13 which commands putting people to death that are not within the primitive social norms of living in caves and sacrificing goats and children and owning slaves.
Ruether concludes: «The true struggle of religion in the sixteenth century and still today is not between the true god of the Bible and «paganism» but between the warlord gods of human sacrifice in both religions and the god of life who calls for compassion and mutual respect between peoples, a god revealed in Christ but also known in Quetzalcoatl.»
Refusing to accept the lure of power through military might or pursuing peace through violence, Jesus embodies the life of suffering and self - sacrifice that he is calling his followers to emulate.
God sacrificed his only son, the only innoce3nt human in history, he sufferd the shame of occupying a human body and then he lived his whole life without sin, and let himself be wrongly accused and executed that our sins may be traded and washed away by the blood of the lamb of God.
One could have an abortion and happy they denied life to an innocent in favor of their own lifestyle, one could have a baby with the intent on sacrificing it to Satan in some way, shape, or form, it could go lots of different ways for lots of different reasons but contradicting itself is of absolutely no concern as a lot of Satanists also label themselves «nonreligious».
Beware the Mormon who smiles and will not answer — he has taken the oath of Blood Atonement — agreeing to sacrifice your life if secrets are revealed, okay to slit my throat if I am deemed a sinner by the church because that is the only way to save me.
Have you sacrificed your job, or your relationships with family, for the sake of living a Christian life (Matthew 19:29)?
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