The only chance of success is to trust in your own power.
Everyone dies. The don't all have the chance to see what they wanted most. At least I've seen the Above. At least I've known True.
Sometimes you can't speak, not because others won't let you, but because you are afraid of what you'll say.
What are the gifts given to we who live Below?" "Long life, health, strength, and happiness." "What is the curse of those who live Above?" "Short life, illness, weakness, and misery." "Is this fair?" "It is fair. It is as the gods decreed at the time...
I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.
I can't help being happy. I'm alive.
You always have something left to lose. Until, of course, you die.
So much of life is in the smallness of moments...but they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and occasions. People like to feel significant
