What is life but an ongoing war?

The most important gift you can give your children is the importance of standing up to injustice. Children will remember moments spent with you. However, it isn't togetherness that creates humane parents and righteous kids. It is the example of integrity that a parent sets and the on going lessons they teach about compassion toward others throughout their lives. A good father or mother teaches their children that cruelty is not something you cause or ignore, rather it is the moment you suit up for war.

Hurry,' Hector urged, and his voice changed as his power surged, his tone and cadence sliding into the rhythm that said he was seeing the future. 'Battle is in the air. I smell it. I can almost touch it. Death is coming Death is coming for us.' With a click, the call disconnected.

Sensitive people care when the world doesn't because we understand waiting to be rescued and no one shows up. We have rescued ourselves, so many times that we have become self taught in the art of compassion for those forgotten.

This will not be the end of the Clans. As long as I have breath in body, the Clans will be safe.

[Fireheart]mewed,'It's not my place to judge you.' Greystripe looked up as Fireheart went on.' Greystripe, whatever you decide to do, I will always be your friend.

This is a story of Africa. A pioneer woman's journey north was merely the beginning.

A great battle is a terrible thing,' the old knight said, 'but in the midst of blood and carnage, there is sometimes also beauty, beauty that could break your heart.

You will not say how you are haunted by the faces of the men you killed, how in their last gasp of life they sought your pity and you had none. You will not speak of the boys who died screaming for their mothers while you twisted a blade in their guts and snarled your scorn into their ears. You will not confess that you wake in the night, covered in sweat, heart hammering, shrinking from the memories. You will not talk of that, because that is the horror, and the horror is held in the heart’s hoard, a secret, and to admit it is to admit fear, and we are warriors.We do not fear. We strut. We go to battle like heroes. We stink of shit.

To have a different life you have be a different person. You have to do what you haven't done. You have to become the person that fits that dream. But most of all, you have to realize that if you don't step into your story it becomes the moral of the story. Your inaction is a lesson you leave to your kids-- I was too afraid to change.