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.'
Life satisfaction essentially measures cheerful moods, so it is not entitled to a central place in any theory that aims to be more than a happiology.
When I'm trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.
My life as a professional athlete has allowed me the opportunity to visit and live in many different places and meet many interesting and diverse people.
I frankly encountered more anti-Semitism in the northeast than I did in Oklahoma, but not much either place. Anti-Semitism is not part of my life.
My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.
Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.
I applaud anyone who wants to take on the load that comes with being President of the United States. You really have to love your country to place yourself in that position.
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
