#heroes

Heroes do not dwell in a time of peace; heroes are hardened in a kiln against the sorrows. Their troubles sharpen the blade and make it gleaming. The glint becomes a brightness that is raised high on a hill, allowing women and men to see beyond themselves. For light swallows darkness. Truth buries death. Heroes are not born. They are filled by Music. ↗

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

#hill #love #sword #death

Hercules, huh? That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn, there he is. ↗

— Percy Jackson

#heroes-of-olympus #humor #mark-of-athena #percy-jackson #humor

I like my coffee black, my beer from Germany, wine from Burgundy, the darker, the better. I like my heroes complicated and brooding, James Dean in oiled leather, leaning on a motorcycle. You know the color. ("Ode to Chocolate") ↗

— Barbara Crooker

#coffee #heroes #wine #coffee

My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than when they found it, whether in small ways or great ones. Some succeeded, some failed, most had mixed results... but it is the effort that's heroic, as I see it. Win or lose, I admire those who fight the good fight. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#heroes #perseverance #men

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#men

Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#men

When she had asked him how he was able to kill two men with his bare hands, he had gone into asshole mode, telling her not to look a gift horse in the mouth. ↗

— Brad Taylor

#men

Heralds don't sing about men who lived in orthodoxy or played it safe, they sing about men who lived an uncertain future and took enough risks to make your head spin. ↗

— Evan Meekins

#fantasy-fiction #fiction #heroes #legends #risk

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#heroes #inspirational #inspirational

Stupid men, always thinking they're the ones who get to do the rescuing. ↗

— Peadar Ó Guilín

#men #men