Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.

Peter Kreeft
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Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. This quote is from a book by Bill O’Reilly . In it, O’Reilly says that our culture has been so focused on the materialistic values of success and wealth that we have forgotten to focus on the other things that make up a fulfilling life. He points out that there is a difference between being a good person and being a hero.

We have been conditioned to think that being a "nice" person is what we should strive for. The problem with this mindset is that it doesn’t make us happy. The truth is, we need to be brave, bold and courageous in order to live life to the fullest.

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