Marriage and family life give us constant opportunities to deny ourselves for the sake of others. And yet self-denial is not a mask for self-contempt, but the necessary means for achieving self-mastery; for self-mastery makes possible our self-giving...
The sensory misers will inherit the earth, but first they will make it not worth living on. When you consider something like death, after which we may well go out like a candle flame, then it probably won’t matter if we try too hard, are awkward so...
If we're open to it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives... to change us. It might be a laughing child, car brakes that need fixing, a sale on pot roast, a cloudless sky, a trip to the woods to cut down a Christmas tree, a school ...
Too much is never good; too little is never enough.
It may be possible for each to think too much of his own potential glory hereafter; it is hardly possible for him to think too often or too deeply about that of his neighbor. The load, or weight, or burden of my neighbor's glory should be laid daily ...
I have lived nearly fifty years, and I have seen life as it is. Pain, misery, hunger ... cruelty beyond belief. I have heard the singing from taverns and the moans from bundles of filth on the streets. I have been a soldier and seen my comrades fall ...
When my sons arrived in the family, their legal status was not ambiguous at all. They were our kids. But their wants and affections were still atrophied by a year in the orphanage. They didn't know that flies on their faces were bad. They didn't know...
I loved looking at the stars—they put in perspective how small I was compared to the Universe. Each of those hundreds of billions of stars was its own sun. It could have its own solar system of planets orbiting around it, and some of those planets ...
There was no person, whether they thought I was too fat, too black, too country, too ghetto, too New York, too thug or too whatever! Nobody ultimately had the say over whether or not I was going to make it.
Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.
Don't hold grudges. Life's too long.
Life would be simpler if only we were all unicorns.
I go out of my way to try not to be too annoying... my biggest goal in life is to not be annoying about being a bride.
I think dealing with mean girls is just a part of life. I never really took people like that too seriously.
I like to deal in the reality of life. I'm too old to sing about women and things like that.
I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
I like a girl who doesn't take life too seriously and is quite easy-going.
I've been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.
I am too insecure to crash early. I feel life will pass me by while I'm sleeping.
I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.
Winning big in life has never been a result of playing too safe.
