Hero, Ralph Waldo Emerson

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Death, David Searls

Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.

- David Searls

Mind, Zen Proverb

Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving.

- Zen Proverb

Kōan 29 : Not the Wind, Not the Flag

Superhero, Halle Berry as Catwoman from Catwoman (2004)

[voiceover] The day I died was the day I started to live. In my old life, I longed for someone to see what was special in me. You did, and for that, you'll always be in my heart. But what I really needed was for me to see it. And now I do. You're a good man, Tom. But you live in a world that has no place for someone like me. You see, sometimes I'm good. Oh, I'm very good. But sometimes I'm bad. But only as bad as I wanna be. Freedom is power. To live a life untamed and unafraid is the gift that I've been given, and so my journey begins.

- Halle Berry as Catwoman from Catwoman (2004) [last lines]

Attitude, Confucius

成事不說, 遂事不諫, 旣往不咎。

- 孔子

Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.

- Confucius (孔子)

Death, Jiddu Krishnamurti

Death is extraordinarily like life when we know how to live. You cannot live without dying. You cannot live if you do not die psychologically every minute.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)

Hero, Halle Berry as Catwoman from Catwoman (2004)

[voiceover] It all started on the day that I died. If there had been an obituary, it would have described the unremarkable life of an unremarkable woman, survived by no one. But there was no obituary, because the day that I died was also the day I started to live. But that comes later. This was my life. Days blended together, consistently ordinary, thanks to a job that was the practical version of my passion. I was supposed to be an artist by now. Instead, I was designing ads for beauty cream.

- Halle Berry as Catwoman from Catwoman (2004) [first lines]