Kisuke Urahara — memorable quote from Bleach

“If you could see everything but couldn't change any of it, or if you could live in freedom in darkness... Which do you think is more fortunate? I think it might not be that bad living in the dark, remembering the light.”

“People's lives don't belong to anyone. Anyone, except themselves. But people have a path. The path of how to use that life.”

“Having my fate decided for me from the time I was born goes against my view of beauty.”

“The souls that God has given us, our spirits. Our spirits, which found a way to swim through the immense network and live in the infinity of space. Is not the human body a mere shell? A form of existence all too small and weak for consciousness with such vast reach and potential.”

“Life is all about "selection". There's no such thing as a life of being pushed around by circumstances or a life of doing as one is told. It is you who selected to be "swept along"”