Quotes from Kirsten Beyer

We all have choices, some are just harder to make than others

Maintainig a positive attitude is essential, especially in trying times

The ability to admit that you do not know is the surest indication of your enduring strength

Chakotay watched its progress with equal amounts of fear and anger. Self-sacrifice was hard-wired into Kathryn Janeway. It was her greatest strength and most inconvenient weakness. It was also one they shared.

The gods made the world round so that we could never see too far into our own futuer.

he blessed again the gods of his fathers for bringing Kathryn back to him. He refused to think too far ahead. He'd already learned that to live in the future was folly, especially when the present held everything for which he could ask.

I know I haven't 'taken a step back or retreated from a better future.

Faith is not a crime. Blind obedience should be. Too many years wasted in strict adherence to fabricated laws could damn a religion to oblivion.

Are we really going to have to do this the hard way?" Farkas sighed. "Going forward, may I suggest that designation be restricted only to operations that include arming our self-destruct mechanism while inside an alien vessel?" Commander Roach asked.

Ambassador Garak is having a field day with the press at my expense, and while that just means it's probably Tuesday again, it never does much for my mood.

But the whole thing with new people, aliens or not, is that you can't go in just looking at the ways you are different and decide you'll never get along. You have to look for the ways you are the same. They can be hard to find but they are almost always there. And once you find a little common ground, that's how you get to know each other better. We just discovered a new alien species.

One may grow complacent, but even in peace the spirit stirs.

Once in a while, it's going to be us or them.

Powers rise and fall. Leaders come and go. History makes a mockery of our best-laid plans, in the end, you aare left with thosecthings you have shared with one another

The Klingons are not calling to the warriors within us to seek out death. They are calling us to live every moment of every day as our best selves, so that should death arrive unbidden, we may face it without regret.

It is both a blessing and a curse that one could never see too far down the road ahead

I'm talking about allowing others to see you as you truly are, embracing them in all of their imperfections without fear, and remaining true to them come what may. I'm talking about connections that run so deep, it no longer matters where you end and they begin. Some find it in marital love, others in friendship. Both are worth risking.

Death is a part of life. It is inevitable. It is not to be feared

Humanity is a stubborn thing,' she said. 'It hopes, even when all hope is gone.

The captain was experienced en8gh t8 kn8w how bad relationships worked. Your gut told you from the beginning to stay out of it. You got drawn in anyway, telling yourself your eyes were open to the good and the bad. There was just enough good to keep you interested butvnot enough to allow you to commit. One day you woke up with nothing but regrets and wasted time.

Sometimes there's nothing but force that will get the job done, and the more force we bring to the equation, the better our odds of survival will be.

It's wrong for a state to turn its people into monsters, even to secure ourselves, bacause we draw the line at becoming what we behold

Just remember, we are the first Federation citizens to set foot on this world. Our presence here is a gift to us from those who came before; those who first braved unexplored space with a desire to expand their knowledge of the universe.

We all have two lives, Counselor: the one we want and the one we learn to live with. I'm content with both of mine.