“For the hero, fear is a challenge and a task, because only boldness can deliver from fear. And if the risk is not taken, the meaning of life is somehow violated, and the whole future is condemned to hopeless staleness, to a drab grey lit only by will-o’-the-wisps.”
― Symbols of Transformation
― Symbols of Transformation
“Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.”
― The Light in the Heart
― The Light in the Heart
“No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is certain that someone will. And let those who go down the sunset way do so with open eyes, for it is a sacrifice which daunts even the gods. Yet every descent is followed by an ascent; the vanishing shapes are shaped anew, and a truth is valid in the end only if it suffers change and bears new witness in new images, in new tongues, like a new wine that is put into new bottles.”
― Symbols of Transformation
― Symbols of Transformation
“No one wants to suffer. But that is the fate of each. And some suffer more. Not necessarily of their own volition. It's not about to enduring the suffering. It's about how you endure it.”
― Wieża Jaskółki
― Wieża Jaskółki
“When the going gets tough, put one foot in front of the other and just keep going. Don’t give up.”
― The Light in the Heart
― The Light in the Heart
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