The strength I'm looking for isn't the type where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want us the kind of strength to be able to absorb that kind of power, to stand up to it.The strength to quietly endure things - unfairness, misfortunes, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings.

You’re optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.

If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.

What’s most important is what you can’t see but can feel in your heart. To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts. But even activities that appear fruitless don’t necessarily end up so. That’s the feeling I have, as someone who’s felt this, who’s experienced it.

Inside that darkness, i saw rain falling on the sea. Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one there to see it. The rain strikes the surface of the sea, yet even the fish don't know it is raining.

No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.

Even if you don't acknowledge it, people die, and guys sleep with girls. That's just how it is.