I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart.

Part of love is letting a person be who they want to be

I guess it's a choice we make," she said. "What's a choice?" I asked. And she said, "How much of the world we let in.

Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.

The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations - all of them rearranging themselves so this precise, remarkable intersection could happen. In your heart, in your bones, no matter how silly you know it is, you feel that everything has been leading to this, all the secret arrows were pointing here, the universe and time itself crafted this long ago, and you are just now realizing it, you are just now arriving at the place you were always meant to be.

Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?

You know, I'd get a tattoo with your name on it. Only, I want you to have the freedom to change your name if you want to.