Everyday heroes

“It is easier to be a hero for a second, for an hour, than to endure everyday life with silent heroism. Take upon yourself the task of enduring the gray, ordinary life, of doing work for which no one praises you, whose heroism no one notices, by which you arouse no one’s interest in yourself. He who endures this gray everyday life and yet remains a human being is a true hero.”
(Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky)