“Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.”

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.

The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged–the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

And in the end, we were all just humans, Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

I want to tell you about your heart— you’ve probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.

Music is a mantra that soothes the soul, something our body has to have. It’s important to understand the power of music.

Your mind and body, just like your bat, are your tools. Take care of them and they will return the favour.

I think being sexy and comfortable in your body is a wonderful thing, and I don’t mind being acknowledged for it or appreciated for it.

If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.

You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that’s your body.

I’m not a body with a soul, I’m a soul that has a visible part called the body.

It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.

The mind always fails first, not the body. The secret is to make your mind work for you, not against you.