Give your enemy a face, If he is human, do not dehumanize him. Know him and know why he is your enemy. If your enemy is within you, understand what it is and why you are afraid. Put a face on your fear. When you understand it, and it is no longer vague and shapeless, you will find that your fear is no longer so formidable.

Mercedes Lackey

Categorized in : Giving Fear Courage

Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.

Mercedes Lackey

yeah alive adventure

If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.

Mercedes Lackey

sadness regret love

Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was painful and unnecessary, or a lie was necessary to save others. Never manipulating the truth to serve only yourself. Protecting the weak and helpless; standing fast even when fear made you weak. Keeping your word.

Mercedes Lackey

honor lying way

Doctor MacKenzie says "Sometimes I think the Victorians had the right idea. When you lost a family member back then you were suppose to be in full mourning, dress in nothing but black, for a whole year. Then you went into something they called 'half mourning' for another full year, adn during those two years, you were pretty much expected to have emotional breakdowns, you could do it whenever you felt you needed to, and everybody would support you. Now?, A month after a tragedy, maybe two, and you're expected to be all better-or down pills so you can pretend you are.

Mercedes Lackey

support-you emotional thinking

The great love is gone. There are still little loves - friend to friend, brother to sister, student to teacher. Will you deny yourself comfort at the hearthfire of a cottage because you may no longer sit by the fireplace of a palace? Will you deny yourself to those who reach out to you in hopes of warming themselves at your hearthfire?

Mercedes Lackey

lost-love brother teacher

There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they’re the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren’t willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race.

Mercedes Lackey

dying race answers

Getting angry over something that won't change is like seeing what happens if you hit your hand with a hammer over and over again, and being surprised each time when it hurts. So you might as well stop doing it.

Mercedes Lackey

hammers hurt hands

It's just as easy to be lonely in a city as out in the wilderness. Easier, really. It's harder to get to know someone when you meet in a crowded place. People can freely ignore you in the city; they can assume they don't have any responsibility for you. When there are fewer people, (...) they begin assuming some kind of responsibility, simply because you naturally do the same.

Mercedes Lackey

lonely cities responsibility

We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run.

Mercedes Lackey

getting-back-up running fall

Three things trust and cherish well- The horse on which you ride, The beast that guards and watches, And your shield-mate at your side.

Mercedes Lackey

your-side horse watches

This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and the gods are pleased. This I have observed: what occurs in nature, comes by the hand of nature, and if the gods did not approve, it would not be there ~ Moondance k'Treva (Magic's Pawn)

Mercedes Lackey

magic hands thinking

It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.

Mercedes Lackey

gossip information gathering

Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.

Mercedes Lackey

harder atrocities support

Some must be warriors, that others may live in peace.

Mercedes Lackey

warrior may

I'm not a legend or a hero, I don't slay dragons, I don't do any of the things that a real hero can. But I can make things better, one day at a time, for most of the kingdom.

Mercedes Lackey

dragons real hero

When warriors feel afraid they lack something, it is only because they are forgetful. They have forgotten how capable they truly are.

Mercedes Lackey

forgetful warrior forgotten

Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.

Mercedes Lackey

keep-moving dies moving

Assume the attitude of prayer, and in time, the attitude will become prayer.

Mercedes Lackey

assuming prayer attitude

It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.

Mercedes Lackey

childhood wise mother

Parents always know what strings control your heart and soul. After all, they are the ones who tied them there.

Mercedes Lackey

parent soul heart