Jas

“I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.”
― Takeshi Shudo, The Art of Pokemon, The First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back!

“If we’re not supposed to dance, Why all this music?”
― Gregory Orr

“All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life. And if you be a philosopher, though seated in the whale-boat, you would not at heart feel one whit more of terror, than though seated before your evening fire with a poker, and not a harpoon, by your side.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Tales from Earthsea