Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up. The earth must be broken to bring forth life. If the seed does not die there is no plant. Bread results from the death of wheat. Life lives on lives. Our own life lives on the acts of other people. If you are lifeworthy, you can take it.

The person who thinks he has found the ultimate truth is wrong.

Love your enemies, for they determine who you are.

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.

Enlarge the pupil of the eye, so that the body with its attendant personality will no longer obstruct the view. Immortality is then experienced as a present fact.

And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero's Journey.