“You must meet death in order to be reborn.”

“Everyday as we die, we must be reborn. If there were no death, life would be meaningless.”

“Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to each other and are forever reborn. And with them, all is reborn, the flower of the apple tree, the light of the stars. In life is death. In death is rebirth. What then is life without death? Life unchanging, everlasting, eternal?-What is it but death-death without rebirth?”

“We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.”

“In the Orthodox Church, we don't go for partial immersion; no sprinkling, no forehead dabbing for us. In order to be reborn, you have to be buried first, so under the water I went.”

“In order to acheive you must dream, to dream you must desire, to desire you must love.”