It’s a pity so few of us are allowed to chose thectime and manner of our death.
Staring into his dark eyes, she felt the doubts she had nurtured slipping away on a single breath. She reached out to him again, pulling him toward her. Their bodies met, two galaxies subject to the inexorable pull of the universe, both determined to remain connected, if only by a bridge of stars.
Most thing worth doing come with their fair share of risks.
My mother used to say that the gods made the world round so that we could never see too far into our own future.
Knowledge does not come through force. it can not be taken, it can only be freely received.
Both life and work were a great deal more rewarding when you didn’t take them seriously.
Balancing security against the values we hold dear requires commitment.
I didn’t realize you were a man of faith.” “My people have a rich spiritual heritage,” Chakotay said. “I spent many years refusing to appreciate it, but, like most truths, it found me eventually and held me.
We may succeed, but if we lose what is best in us in the process, what have we won?
Civilizatons rise and fall. History has taught us that this is the way of things.
It’s hard for me to see characters as villains... just heroes with competing agendas.
It isn’t what we lose that defines us. It’s what we refuse to release.” Janeway.
The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress is so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope.” – ROBERT E. LEE.
They did not need to be close friends to work together. But they need to trust each other.
Just worry about things you can do something about. The rest wil take care of itself.
We all have choices, some are just harder to make than others.
Maintainig a positive attitude is essential, especially in trying times.
The ability to admit that you do not know is the surest indication of your enduring strength.
Chakotay watched its progress with equal amounts of fear and anger. Self-sacrifice was hard-wired into Kathryn Janeway. It was her greatest strength and most inconvenient weakness. It was also one they shared.
What species is he?” “British.