A Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The hero is he who is immovably centered.
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The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero. At the edge, the certainty of borders gives way. We are more subject to invasions, less able to mobilize defenses, less sure of who we really are, even as we may be perceived by others as a person of character. The dislocation of self from center to indefinite edge merges us more with the world, so that we can feel blest by everything.
No hero is a hero if he ever killed someone! Only the man who has not any blood in his hand can be a real hero! The honour of being a hero belongs exclusively to the peaceful people!
We have these rules, the 'hero rules.' Like, a hero doesn't slouch. A hero walks proudly with his head up. A hero walks with a purpose. A hero's always a gentleman.
We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge.
Be dogmatically true, obstinately holy, immovably honest, desperately kind, fixedly upright.
A "godly" person is one who ceases to be self-centered in order to become God-centered.
I always say centered food equals centered behavior.
Real beauty is when you're centered, when our mind is with the truth. That is how every baby is beautiful because they are centered.
The key to good technique is to keep your hands, feet, and hips straight and centered. If you are centered, you can move freely.
The hero wanders, the hero suffers, the hero returns. You are that hero.
Dost thou know what a hero is? Why, a hero is as much as one should say, a hero.
It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.
You are a vain fellow. You want to be a hero. That is why you do such silly things. A hero!... I don't quite know what that is: but, you see, I imagine that a hero is a man who does what he can. The others do not do it.
The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero; what is more to the point, we suspect hero worship.
I hate photographs abstractly, because they have given me more ideas perversely and immovably wrong, than I ever should get by imagination.
We make time for what we truly value. We build habits and routines around the things that really matter to us. This is an important principle to understand as we seek to build our lives around the gospel. Do you want a cross centered life? A cross centered life is made up of cross centered days.
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