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Quotes About Hero

A life had been ruined. What was it for: just some social media drama? I think our natural disposition as humans is to plod along until we get old and stop. But with social media, we've created a stage for constant artificial high drama. Every day a new person emerges as a magnificent hero or a sickening villain. It's all very sweeping, and not the way we actually are as people.
~ Jon Ronson
Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight.
~ Jonathan Nolan
Long ago I dreamed of being a hero in your company" Halli said Huskily "I'm sorry to say your reality disappoints me
~ Jonathan Stroud
A hero called Adin rose from the ranks of the people. He was an ordinary man, a blacksmith who made swords and armor and shoes for horses. But he had been blessed with strsngth, courage, and cleverness.
~ Emily Rodda
They welcomed him as a hero, but he now knew that heroes were soon created by those needing reflected glory.
~ Emma Drummond
I look at my father. He is one of my heroes. He is such an incredible, classy man. He was such a great father and such a great husband in so many ways, and we lived through some pretty tough times losing my mom. When I see all that he did, I think, 'Wow, that's a really wonderful man.'
~ Emmanuelle Chriqui
No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist.
~ Eric Berne
When homecoming is no longer an option, the hero must complete his journey elsewhere. Sometimes the journey isn't just leaving and returning home, it's figuring out where home even is.
~ Eric Kim
A real man's gotta be a hero to his wife before he can be a hero to anybody else- or he ain't a real man.
~ Eric Wilson
The tests of masculinity and the proofs of ego stability, will power, bravery, knowledge of "heaven," and so forth, which are demanded of the hero, have their historical equivalent in the rites of puberty.
~ Erich Neumann
The self-generating power of the soul is man's true and final secret, by virtue of which he is made in the likeness of God the creator and distinguished from all other living things. These images, ideas, values, and potentialities of the treasure hidden in the unconscious are brought to birth and realized by the hero in his various guises—savior and man of action, seer and sage, founder and artist, inventor and discoverer, scientist and leader.
~ Erich Neumann
Although they appear as inner events, the victory and transformation of the hero are valid for all mankind; they are held up for our contemplation, to be lived out in our own lives, or at least re-experienced by us.
~ Erich Neumann
Historically speaking, however, the synthetic path of development—which includes the stage of the hero fight—was never followed in Christianity as it grew up under Gnostic influences, but only in alchemy, the cabala, and above all in Hasidism.
~ Erich Neumann
task of the hero, which is to "awaken those sleeping images that can and must come forth from the night, in order to give the world a better face," is far indeed from "masturbation.
~ Erich Neumann
It is, however, impossible to find the treasure unless the hero has first found and redeemed his own soul, his own feminine counterpart which conceives and brings forth.
~ Erich Neumann
From the union of the hero's ego consciousness with the creative side of the soul, when he "knows" and realizes both the world and the anima, there is begotten the true birth, the synthesis of both.
~ Erich Neumann
through the masculinization and emancipation of ego consciousness the ego becomes the "hero." The story of the hero, as set forth in the myths, is the history of this self-emancipation of the ego, struggling to free itself from the power of the unconscious and to hold its own against overwhelming odds.
~ Erich Neumann
So long as the man loves only the bounteous mother in woman, he remains infantile. And if he fears woman as the castrating womb, he can never combine with it and reproduce himself. What the hero kills is only the terrible side of the female, and this he does in order to set free the fruitful and joyous side with which she joins herself to him.
~ Erich Neumann
DoveWing (talking to LoinBlaze): You got somthing wrong, what you said to ToadStep. You are the hero.
~ Erin Hunter
Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where he made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.
~ beecher henry ward xviii
Not baked goods! BAKED BADS!!!!" --The Tick
~ Ben Edlund
Only at [a] university is a riot an "uprising," a police officer a thug, and a criminal a hero.
~ Ben Shapiro
Doth nought return-- Only a spear and sword, and ashes in an urn! For Ares, lord of strife, Who doth the swaying scales of battle hold, War's money-changer, giving dust for gold, Sends back, to hearts that held them dear, Scant ash of warriors, wept with many a tear, Light to the hand, but heavy to the soul; Yea, fills the light urn full With what survived the flame-- Death's dusty measure of a hero's frame!
~ Benjamin Franklin
After the passing of my personal hero, Anthony Bourdain, I've been reflecting a lot on his influence on food culture. He made street food from around the world, that most of us have never heard of, accessible.
~ Antoni Porowski