Quotes from Kirsten Beyer

Life is much too short to waste time wallowing in the past especially when the future hands you a second chance. Chakotay Talking to B'Ellana (When she asks him why he isn't mad her for lying about her and Miral being dead) Book:Unworthy: pg. 121

I believe that we must align our actions with our highest principles. No matter the outcome, we will not have failed if we act from our best intentions." "The road to hell is paved with good intentions, Captain," Chakotay said with equal certainty. "So is the road to peace," Cambridge observed.

I love you," Kathryn said simply. "I like hearing you say that." Chakotay smiled. "Good," Kathryn replied, resettling herself beside him, "because if we do this, we do it together.

No one is truly lost when they remain in the hearts and minds of those wwho love them

For me, nothing can change the fact that your happiness is indistinguishable from mine.

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.

It's hard for me to see characters as villains... just heroes with competing agendas.

Making a different choice isn't the same thing as giving up," Janeway said. "Sometimes we're not happy because we aren't living up to our own expectations. But sometimes we're not happy because we're asking the wrong things of ourselves. Part of growing up is learning to tell the difference between the two.

Did you just do that math in your head?" Farkas asked the admiral. Janeway nodded. "I've already had my coffee.

What species is he?" "British

If we could direct our hearts to love only those most likely to keep it safe, how much easier would our lives be?

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.

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.

Knowledge does not come through force. It can not be taken, it can only be freely received

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

The bridge of stars?" Janeway asked. "Uh-huh," Glenn said, nodding. "I can't remember the whole story. Two galaxies were one but over time, the natural expansion of the universe separated them. Still, they couldn't bear to be torn apart, so each of them sacrificed a few of their stars to leave a bridge between them so that no matter how far apart they drifted, they could never truly be separated." "That's beautiful," Chakotay said, glancing toward Janeway with a gentle smile.

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

It's a pity so few of us are allowed to chose thectime and manner of our death

Just worry about things you can do something about. The rest wil take care of itself