We all have our safe places, where none are invited. They are lonely rooms full of the musk of memory. Sanctuary rather than adventure.
Maybe I should just lie quietly inside you while our old selves slip in and out of the back rooms of the soul.
A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.
It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.
I'm interested in the space between the viewer and the surface of the painting - the forms and the way they work in their surroundings. I'm interested in how they react to a room.
In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.
A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
I think it helps in any comedy room for a woman to have very strong, respected convictions, because then it opens the door up a little bit for other women to have that.
I mean, I'm obviously not one of those people who's so beautiful women take their clothes off when I walk into the room. I didn't become a star overnight.
Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.
There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.
I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.
The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
Now may every living thing, young or old, weak or strong, living near or far, known or unknown, living or departed or yet unborn, may every living thing be full of bliss.
Life is a story. Why do we die? Because we live. Why do we live? Because our Maker opened His mouth and began to tell a story.
We shall do even greater things because the love that lived in the radical Christ now lives within millions of ordinary radicals all over the planet.
People who have had little self-reflection live life in a huge reality blind-spot.
Let's live our lives with great meaning and purpose in the attempt to influence the world to whatever degree our circumstance allows.
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them
[C]oncepts of dying in to a heaven or hell seem a good deal more political than spiritual. (124)
