MONDAY
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Doyle: "Our rates are low, but our standards are high. When the chips are down, and you're at the end of your rope you need someone that you can count on. And that's what you'll find here - someone that will go all the way, no matter what. So don't lose hope. Come on over to our offices and you'll see that there's still heroes in this world. (Clears his throat) Is that it? Am I done?"
(Hero)
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Fortune Cookies:
"Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men."
---Bishop Westcott
"My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here."
---Jim Henson
"See on the sacred temple's spire
The impious demon's ruthless hand,
While half the city sinks in fire,
Has fixed the wildly blazing brand.
His red right arm, with mighty power,
Launched the fell instrument of woe;
And lo, a desolating shower
Pours on the humbled roofs below!
Aghast, the trembling crowds survey
The sparkling torrent from on high!
Ah, what can now the ruin stay,
Unless some aid divine be nigh?
While yet they gaze, behold, with speed,
The dauntless BREWSTER eager springs;
Angels! who noble actions heed,
Uphold him with your guardian wings!
He swiftly mounts on Franklin's rod,
The steeple's smoky height ascends,
Nobly preserves the house of God,
And calms the fears of virtue's friends.
Such was the deed, that lately saved
Our sister city's beauteous domes!
The champion's image is engraved
On hearts secure in peaceful homes."
---John Lothrop, "Hero's ode"
"This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on."
---Oswald Spengler
TUESDAY
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Buffy: "No! You guys are going to have a prom. The kind of prom that everyone should have. I'm going to give you all a nice, fun, normal evening if I have to kill every single person on the face of the earth to do it."
Xander: "Yay?"
(The Prom)
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Fortune cookies:
"Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day."
---Sally Koch
"When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it."
---W. Clement Stone
"What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?"
---George Eliot
WEDNESDAY
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Willow: "Xander!"
Olaf: "Now. Choose!"
Anya: "Olaf, no!"
Xander: (still bending over in pain) "I'm not choosing."
Olaf: "Then you shall be the one who dies."
Anya: (rushes forward) "No! Choose me! Just don't take him! Don't take Xander!"
(Triangle)
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"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."
---Rumi
"Explore your mind, discover yourself, then give the best that is in you to your age and to your world. There are heroic possibilities waiting to be discovered in every person."
---Wilferd A. Peterson
"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what."
---Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
"Courage conquers all things."
---Ovid
THURSDAY
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"Dawn, the hardest thing in this world is to live in it. Be brave. Live, for me."
Buffy Anne Summers
1981-2001
Beloved Sister
Devoted Friend
She saved the world. A lot
(The Gift)
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Fortune Cookies:
"Few of us will do the spectacular deeds of heroism that spread themselves across the pages of our newspapers in big black headlines. But we can all be heroic in the little things of everyday life. We can do the helpful things, say the kind words, meet our difficulties with courage and high hearts, stand up for the right when the cost is high, keep our word even though it means sacrifice, be a giver instead of a destroyer. Often this quiet, humble heroism is the greatest heroism of all."
---Wilferd A. Peterson
"To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind -- this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for."
---Henry Van Dyke
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart."
--- Carl Jung
"To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly,
to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony."
---William Henry Channing
"You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived
are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."
---Henry Drummond
"Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hill
Sketch the trees and daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land
Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now
Starry, Starry night
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of China blue
Colors changing hue
Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand
Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
They did not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now
Starry, starry night"
---Vonda Shephard, Lyrics and Music by Don McLean
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