Name one hero who was happy." I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason's children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus' back." You...
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Madeline Miller
I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.
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Nikolai Gogol
Dead people can be our heroes because they cant disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.
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Veronica Roth
To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions.
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Amit Kalantri
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.
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Peter Kreeft
More Quotes By Lance Conrad
Teachers see coldness in the world and light fires in the minds of their students, hoping for a warm summer. Sadly, some cannot bear the flame, some turn away from the heat, and some twist the fire to burn.
Fear sticks like a barb in the mind. Someone cold enough to take advantage of it can attach strings to those barbs and make puppets of men and women.
War is more than battles, and battles are more than violence.
If you would see a man's heart, knock him down. Then observe how he rises. If you would see his soul, do it a thousand times more.
There is wisdom out there that can’t be relayed in musings or sage advice. Like the complexity of life itself, it simply won’t condense. It can only be shown in its entirety. It takes a story.
