“With rocky and dangerous pasts, comes determination and self-sacrifice.”
“...there is power in self-sacrifice.”
“Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.”
“self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.”
“Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.”
“I should not have cared to see it as an act of self-sacrifice even if it had been one; for there is nothing clever in self-sacrifice, nothing to pride oneself on.”