Quotes for Thought.

"A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot farmer or a king -- every man is a hero if he strives more for others than himself alone." 

~ The High King by Lloyd Alexander

“It’s like in the great stories Mr. Frodo, the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn’t want to know the end because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end it’s only a passing thing this shadow, even darkness must pass. 

A new day will come, and when the sun shines it’ll shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you, that meant something even if you were too small to understand why. But I think Mr. Frodo, I do understand, I know now folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going because they were holding on to something.”


“ What are we holding onto, Sam?”


“That there’s some good in the world, Mr. Frodo, and it’s worth fighting for.”

Sam and Frodo, Two Towers 




"True courage is knowing not when to take a life but when to spare one." ~Gandalf the Grey



"There are all kinds of courage. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies , but just as much to stand up to our friends." ~Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

 definition: hero: noun, plural he·roes; a man of distinguished courage or ability, admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities. 2 a legendary figure often of divine descent endowed with great strength or ability)