The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.
I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.
What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.
At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.
I love England. It's no coincidence it's the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.
The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
I have lived most of my life in Paris, but I have a connection with Rome that I have with no other place. I'm attached by invisible strings.
In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.
Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.
No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.
Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance.
Your understanding of a place changes the longer you stay; you discover more, and your own life gets woven into the fabric of the community.
My life has been a blessing. I'm grateful for everything I do have and the places I'm going and the things I've seen.
Don't make your journey through life harder by placing rules on yourself like, 'I can't get married till I get promoted to your dream job.'
I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places.
The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.'
