Sacrifice Andrei Tarkovsky Quotes & Sayings

When you're doing some things that are damaging you, you don't really realise it at the time. — Natasha Henstridge

What is art? ( ... ) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of life - love and sacrifice. — Andrei Tarkovsky

I had a million plans. I knew what I was going to do. I had the next few years of my life all figured out.
But what I didn't know was that within a few hours all those plans would change. Ms. Know-it-all didn't quite know it all so much then. — Cecelia Ahern

I didn't go to Cirque Lodge for alcohol abuse or drug abuse — Kirsten Dunst

All of us are infected today with an extraordinary egoism. And that is not freedom; freedom means learning to demand only of oneself, not of life and others, and knowing how to give: sacrifice in the name of love. — Andrei Tarkovsky

Art is a meta-language, with the help of which people try to communicate with one another; to impart information about themselves and assimilate the experience of others. Again, this has not to do with practical advantage but with realising the idea of love, the meaning of which is in sacrifice: the very antithesis of pragmatism. I simply cannot believe that an artist can ever work only for the sake of 'self-expression.' Self-expression if meaningless unless it meets with a response. For the sake of creating a spiritual bond with others it can only be an agonising process, one that involves no practical gain: ultimately it is an act of sacrifice. But surely it cannot be worth the effort merely for the sake of hearing one's own echo? — Andrei Tarkovsky

It is certain that Scripture nowhere contradicts Scripture; rather, one passage explains another. This sound principle of interpreting Scripture by Scripture is sometimes called the analogy of Scripture or the analogy of faith. — J.I. Packer

Video game fans are like nothing else. You can do so many movies or so many TV things, but video games is where there is just everyone. — Jillian Murray

Many Syrians understand that the only option that exists is the option of peace, which means the option of compromise, .. Nobody can have 100 percent of his desires. He must compromise. — Shimon Peres

Everything is permissible' - but not everything is beneficial (1 Corinthians 10:23). — Lysa TerKeurst

It is the Spirit of God that actively sustains every form and force in the universe; yet He is transcendental and aloof in the blissful uncreated void beyond the worlds of vibratory phenomena," Master explained. "Saints who realize their divinity even while in the flesh know a similar twofold existence. Conscientiously engaging in earthly work, they yet remain immersed in an inward beatitude. The Lord has created all men from the limitless joy of His being. Though they are painfully cramped by the body, God nevertheless expects that souls made in His image shall ultimately rise above all sense identifications and reunite with Him. — Paramahansa Yogananda

The artist is always a servant, and is perpetually trying to pay for the gift that has been given to him as if by miracle. Modern man, however, does not want to make any sacrifice, even though true affirmation of self can only be expressed in sacrifice. — Andrei Tarkovsky

People are always wanting to pull me up on my shortfalls. I try to battle against those and concentrate on how good things are. — Bobby Davro