I’m damned tired of being needed. Being needed is just the flip side of being royally screwed. - Steven Barnes

Hate comes from the past, fear from the future. Pain and pleasure are now, and therefore their own trap.

Don't be afraid of dying. A Warrior lives with death, Aubry. Welcome it as an ally. All other fears are just fragments of death, forms of unbecoming. A fighter clings to life, and therefore cannot win. A warrior treats life and death as the same thing, and therefore cannot lose.

Definitions are just words, just labels. And once you label something, the label gets between you and the thing.