If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your destination.

You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high.

Investing a lot of time and money in external beauty and caring little about internal beauty.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

Tragedies do happen. We can discover the reason, blame others, imagine how different our lives would be had they not occurred. But none of that is important: they did occur, and so be it. From there onward we must put aside the fear that they awoke in us and begin to rebuild

She regretted having taken his hand, she wanted to get away from there as soon as possible, to hide her shame, never again to see that man who had witnessed all that was most sordid in her, and who nevertheless continued to treat her with such tenderness. But again she remembered Mari's words: She didn't need to explain her life to anyone, not even to the young man standing before her.

Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant.