nothing comes for free

There are sacrifices that seem worthwhile


and


there are sacrifices that you can’t even figure out


why you’re doing it.


A wise man said that you can have everything in this world

if you sacrifice everything for it.




But what he meant was…

“nothing comes without a price.”


So before you go into battle,


you better decide how much you're willing to lose.


Too often,


going after what feels good


means letting go of what you know is right,


and letting someone in

means abandoning the walls


you've spent a lifetime building.

Of course,


the toughest sacrifices


are the ones


we don't see coming,


when we don't have time to come up


with a strategy to pick a side


or to measure the potential loss.


When that happens,


when the battle chooses us

and not the other way around,


that's when the sacrifice


can turn out to be more than we can bear."