We reap a reward merely in the act of helping others. We never know how, or if, that reward will come back to us. Helping is the reward; none other is needed nor better.

Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing.

To love someone means that you sometimes are fulfilled the most by putting thier deepest desires above your own.

Teachings that defy reason defy reality; what defies reality defies life. Defying life is embracing death.

Every person's life is theirs by right. An individual's life can and must belong only to to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave.

His face set in grim determination, Richard slogged ahead, his fingers reaching up to touch the tooth under his shirt. Loneliness, deeper than he had never known, sagged his shoulders. All his friends were lost to him. He knew now that his life was not his own. It belonged to his duty, to his task. He was the Seeker. Nothing more. Nothing less. Not his own man, but a pawn to be used by others. A tool, same as his sword, to help others, that they might have the life he had only glimpsed for a twinkling. He was no different from the dark things in the boundary. A bringer of death.

I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me! Only victory can return my life to me!