Are you a slumbering hero? Wake up!
By raydene
@raydene (9871)
United States
August 15, 2008 7:41am CST
As some of you know I love good quotes.
What do you think of the quote below?
I just wish mine would wake up! lol
xoxoxoxoxo
To live heroically is its own compensation in which all can share. In every person there is a slumbering hero.
—Henry Neumann
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@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
15 Aug 08
I have to admit my hero woke up and rescued me from my ex! Now that is hardly slumbering is it! Mind you he was slumbering for best part of 9 years before he woke up and said enough is enough, Wolfie needs to be rescued and my hero came out and split his shirt and showed his green hairy chest and said NO MORE! He helped me escape and he flew me away on a plane to Rhodes where Wolfie lived happily ever after, my hero has gone back to slumber now and he has warned me that I should never get into another relationship again, that way I won't need to wake him up to rescue me again!
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@medicguy (307)
• Pakistan
15 Aug 08
Can't say that I disagree with that quote. We all have the potential to do good. It is just a matter of choice and a little bit of will power that is needed to make things work out for betterment of all mankind.
I believe the hero within us is always awake but might not be at its fullest energetic state all the time. Do tell me, don't you feel like helping an old woman to cross the road if you find her struggling to even move on her own, let alone make a dodging walk of life in the jungle-like mesh work of cars?
What I mean to say is that we don't have to do something that extraordinary for us to consider worthy of being called a hero. Everyday situations and day to day small problem-solving is what I believe enhances and brings out the true hero within oneself. Have a beautiful and heroic day!
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@BYOLA2871 (4371)
• South Africa
22 Aug 08
everyone of us have that thing inside them that only needs to wake up and go for that which they really want to achieve in life it doesnt get any better when you are able to find that hero within you and go all out for your place in destiny
@jerzgirl (9291)
• United States
16 Aug 08
Geez, Raydene - I don't know if I'm a slumbering hero or not, but I've got the slumbering part down to a science, I can attest to that!
Actually, though, I'd like to be a hero, at least to myself, if to no one else. That's part of the problem I'm dealing with right now - having a poor self-image. I'm comfortable here because I'm comfortable being able to write and knowing I don't have to have an instant rapport, that I'll have time to come up with a response that is lucid and at least somewhat intelligent (which hasn't always been 100%, I will admit). Face to face, even with the same issues, I can become vapor-locked in my thought process, stumbling and nonsensical, just because I'm in someone's physical presence. So, I'm trying to work on that - I'm too old to start over, but I'd like to get what I've got running smoothly at last, and then maybe, I can be my own hero (lots of history to explain that I won't go into) and maybe even one to my kids and grandkids. It would be nice.