#heroic

To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little. ↗

— Criss Jami

#courage #courageous #crazy #death #definition

In his youth, he was electrified. The stars were moving in his bloodstream. He would not have been cowed by the customs of an earthly monarch. When he loved, it was with a heat and a desperation that he carried like a sword. He loved in the way that Greeks burned cities. ↗

— Brenna Yovanoff

#devil #greeks #heroic #love #passion

What a great thing, to be loved! What a greater thing still, to love! The heart becomes heroic though passion…if no one loved, the sun would go out. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#love #sun #love

If I say I will protect you, I will." ~Alexi de Warenne to Elysse O'Neill ↗

— Brenda Joyce

#heroic #romantic #romantic

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#consequences #heroic #me #ordinary #ordinary people

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do. ↗

— David Duchovny

#i #i think #kids #like #mom

I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#because #body #bruce #bruce springsteen #heroic

I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and fraught and beleaguered and downtrodden, just as Tom Cruise wants to show that he's terrifyingly upbeat and terrifyingly heroic all the time. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#cruise #fraught #heroic #i #just

Soft sun shone down on a misty cathedral at the opposite end of a football-field length courtyard. The cathedral had a long pointed tower with beautiful rose and ivory stained glass windows. Pink-petal flowers and deep green ivy climbed the stones from the ground to it’s roof. A large fountain stood in the middle of the courtyard with water falling from several lion’s heads. Between the misty air and rolling slope of the earth, the grounds reminded me of a long lost fairy tale. ↗

— Priya Ardis

#coming-of-age #e-books #ebooks #fairy-tales #heroic-fantasy

The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that. ↗

— Sheryl Crow

#big #heroic #i #like #make