Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.
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Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.
The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.
Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.
People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.
The simple act of caring is heroic.
I don't really like heroes who always behave heroically. That's not interesting to me.
Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it.
People aren't universally heroic.
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.