If you're going to answer the call and you're going to transform and you're going to change, get ready. It is not a day at the beach.

You have to get hurt. That's how you learn. The strongest people out there, the ones who laugh the hardest with a genuine smile, those are the people who have fought the toughest battles. Because they've decided that they're not going to let anything hold them down, they're showing the world who's boss. One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.

I know this simple fact to be true, for I myself have abandoned people who did not want me to go, and I myself have been abandoned by those whom I begged to stay.

Maturity brings - among other things - the ability to sustain and survive enormous contradictions and disappointments.

How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn’t it?

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

Maybe it's just me but I would suspect that a man trying to impress a woman would be more likely to bring out the steak - "I killed this for you, now I'm grilling it for you."