#heroism

We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths. I can't stop pissing on fire hydrants...I am an animal like any other. Hazel is different. she walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth. She knows the truth: We're as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we're not likely to do either. People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's not sad. It's triumphant. It's heroic. Isn't that the real heroism? The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. ↗

— John Green

#depth #hero #heroism #intimacy #the-fault-in-our-stars

I come in a world of iron...to make a world of gold ↗

— Dale Wasserman

#generosity #giving #goals #goals-in-life #heroism

Faith is the heroism of the intellect. ↗

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

#heroism #intellect

Heroism in a bad cause. ↗

— Karel Reisz

#cause #heroism

Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference. ↗

— Marc Morial

#contribution #difference #equality #freedom #greatest

Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. ↗

— Alfred Tennyson

#heroism #poetry #ulysses #age

If, as has been postulated before, heroism happens when courage meets circumstance, what if the circumstances are mundane? ↗

— Brad Herzog

#heroes #heroism #courage

As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore. ↗

— Alan Moore

#art

Launching a turnaround takes courage. I cannot measure that and so it is not going to be included in my analysis, but behind the moments of change there are always a few people within these societies who have decided to try to make a difference. ↗

— Paul Collier

#heroism #poverty #social-change #change

We all have heard about ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary situations. They act courageously or responsibly, and their efforts are described as if they opted to act that way on the spur of the moment... I believe many people in those situations actually have made descisions years before. ↗

— Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger

#courage