(Had a pic of Commander Shepard here but it got broken in transit somehow)<\/p>\n
Mary Gordon quoting Andre Malraux: “Joan of Arc, without tomb and without portrait, you who knew that the grave of heroes is in the heart of the living<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n \u201cA hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere<\/strong> and endure<\/strong> in spite of overwhelming obstacles.\u201d \u201cA hero is someone who understands the responsibility<\/strong> that comes with his freedom.\u201d \u201cA hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.\u201d \u201cThe hero draws inspiration<\/strong> from the virtue of his ancestors.\u201d \u201cAspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.\u201d \u201cA hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them. <\/strong>Obviously that can only work at moments. It can’t be a lasting thing. That’s not saying that people shouldn’t keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence. Someday, who knows, we might conquer death, disease and war.\u201d \u201cA hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself<\/strong>.\u201d \u201cA hero has faced it all: he need not be undefeated, but he must be undaunted.<\/strong>\u201d \u201cA hero is a man who does what he can.\u201d \u201cDown these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world.<\/strong>\u201d \u201cThe prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both<\/strong>; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.\u201d \u201cThe hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.\u201d \u201cThe ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts.<\/strong> An immense difference.\u201d \u201cWho is a hero? He who conquers his urges.<\/strong>\u201d \u201cTo be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.<\/strong>\u201d \u201cIt doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. 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\n– Christopher Reeve<\/p>\n
\n– Bob Dylan<\/p>\n
\n– Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/p>\n
\n– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<\/p>\n
\n– Baltasar Gracian<\/p>\n
\n– Jim Morrison<\/p>\n
\n– Joseph Campbell<\/p>\n
\n– Andrew Bernstein<\/p>\n
\n– Romain Rolland<\/p>\n
\n– Rebecca Harding Davis<\/p>\n
\n– Johann Kaspar Lavater<\/p>\n
\n– Felix Adler<\/p>\n
\n– Henry Miller<\/p>\n
\n– The Talmud<\/p>\n
\n– Simone Weil<\/p>\n
\n– Norman Schwarzkopf<\/p>\n
\n– Umberto Eco<\/p>\n
\n– Andrew Bernstein<\/p>\n
\n– Lise Hand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"