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"To be brave among the brave is little; but to be brave among the cowardly is the height of true valor."
โ Ivanhoeby Sir Walter Scott
"I will not let my son go to the tournament, for he is the only one I have to uphold the honor of my house."
โ Ivanhoeby Sir Walter Scott
"The memory of my father's house is a light that burns in the darkness, and I will not let it be extinguished."
โ Ivanhoeby Sir Walter Scott
"Chivalry! Why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affectionโthe stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant."
โ Ivanhoeby Sir Walter Scott
"I am done with the monster of 'We,' the word of serfdom, of plunder, of misery, falsehood and shame."
โ Anthemby Ayn Rand
"It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see."
โ Anthemby Ayn Rand
"We are one in all and all in one. There are no men but only the great WE, One, indivisible and forever."
โ Anthemby Ayn Rand
"To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else."
โ Anthemby Ayn Rand
"My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose."
โ Anthemby Ayn Rand
"Most creatures live their lives looking for a crown, but I have found that true nobility is simply knowing where to find the ripest persimmons in the dark."
โ Oswald, the Almost Famous Opossumby Sara Goldsmith Pascoe
"The moon doesn't ask for permission to shine, and neither should an opossum apologize for simply existing in the shadows."
โ Oswald, the Almost Famous Opossumby Sara Goldsmith Pascoe
"Being 'almost famous' is a peculiar gift; you get to witness the worldโs spectacle without the exhaustion of being the centerpiece."
โ Oswald, the Almost Famous Opossumby Sara Goldsmith Pascoe
"Fear is a heavy cloak to wear, but feigning death is the lightest armor I know; it gives the world a chance to walk past and forget you were ever in its way."
โ Oswald, the Almost Famous Opossumby Sara Goldsmith Pascoe
"People spend their whole lives trying to be noticed, not realizing that the most beautiful things in the forest are those that prefer to remain unseen."
โ Oswald, the Almost Famous Opossumby Sara Goldsmith Pascoe
"History remembers the lions and the wolves, but the earth itself remembers the scavengers who kept the cycle turning while everyone else was busy posing for portraits."
โ Oswald, the Almost Famous Opossumby Sara Goldsmith Pascoe
"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls."
โ The power of mythby Joseph Campbell
"Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation."
โ The power of mythby Joseph Campbell
"We are not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that, you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes."
โ The power of mythby Joseph Campbell