crisitunity

"Crises don't make heroes. Crisis reveals who you were before it happened."
- Dr. Phil

embracing imperfection

"War between strengths and weaknesses."
- Greeks on heroism

Hero

"... somebody who survives the whole experience, but is not ruined by it."
- Paul Fussell, WWII U.S.A. Infantry

Gaius

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
- Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 2, Scene 2, 1599.

Image: Valour and Cowardice by Alfred Stevens [1817-1876]