#heroic

It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal value: downtime for reflection, conversation, and reverie; beauty that is captivating and pleasuring; relatedness to the environs and to people; and any animal’s rhythm of rest and activity. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#beauty

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

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

Dying in the line of duty is heroic, but dying while unemployed is just stupid. ↗

— Tsugumi Ohba

#heroic #unemployed #death

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

— Brenda Joyce

#heroic #romantic #romantic

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. ↗

— Mark Twain

#fine #heroic #keep #people #telling

What is a society without a heroic dimension? ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#heroic #society #without

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day. ↗

— Edward Albert

#another #another day #day #days #fear

I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. ↗

— Jane Campion

#ends #generally #heroic #i #i think

I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive. ↗

— Jane Campion

#believe #compulsive #courage #dangerously #ends