I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

To feel alone is to be alone.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

Weep. Forgive but don’t forget. Allow your tears to lay the path to your future happiness.

If it's to protect our family, be it the Kingdom or the entire world... We would make anyone our enemy! That's what it means to be Fairy Tail!!

Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement the less perfect our success.

Whatever dreams I have wished have come true.

The word feminism needs to be taken back. It needs to be reclaimed in a way that is inclusive of men.

If you like who you work with, who you interact with every day, you're going to accomplish better things.

To me, character in a person is judged by the decisions that are made under pressure.

Counterfeit tolerance includes the opportunism of one who seeks, or accepts, tolerance for himself, as a minority, but who would deny it to others if ever he should be in a position to grant it.

When you own nothing, it's easy to let things go.

We are each a concert reverberating with our whole lives and reflecting and amplifying the world around us.