I don't know what I'd do if I had to look pretty all the time.
And I’m okay, I really am, most of the time. But sometimes, I’m just not.
Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart.
There are a million ways to lose someone you love.
What do you say when the feelings don't fit into words?
It was as though he didn't exist, and then suddenly, he was everywhere.
He laughed, and the sound reduced the pain of every sore place on my body to the dullest ache.
Love is ease, love is comfort, love is support and respect. Love is not punishing or controlling. Love lets you grow and breathe. Love's passion is only good passion -- swirling-leaves-on-a-fall-day passion, a-sky-full-of-magnificent-stars passion -- not angst and anxiety. Love is not hurt and harm. Love is never unsafe. Love is sleeping like puzzle pieces. It's your own garden you protect; it's a field of wildflowers you move about in both freely and together.
I think that the relationship between two top-level athletes who are rivals is one of the most fascinating human relationships to explore. It's always one atom away from being a tragedy.
Knowledge is one of our direst needs. But it is insufficient on its own. If knowledge was stripped from true up-bringing, it would increase man's strength, but not his morals.
One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters – whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished.