I think adversity magnifies behavior. Tend to be a control freak? You'll become more controlling. Eat for comfort? You'll eat more. And on the positive, if you tend to focus on solutions and celebrate small successes, that's what you'll do in adversi...
I had everything I could possibly want -- yet I was failing to appreciate it. Bogged down in petty complaints and passing crises, weary of struggling with my own nature, I too often failed to comprehend the splendor of what I had.
How much courage does it take to fire up your tractor and plow under a crop you spent six or seven years growing?' he asked himself. 'How much courage to go on and do that after you’ve spent all that time finding out how to prepare the soil and whe...
Free and fearless courage comes from time spent with Jesus.
A rich man, was one who spent a million.
I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age.
My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me.
My husband and I went to Bald Head Island for our four-year anniversary. We spent the night in bed with champagne, tequila and Krispy Kreme doughnuts and watched a boxing match on Showtime.
Nights without work I spent with whisky and books.
I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
The best 45 years of my life were the 5 years I spent with Ton Jones.
Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.
In 1994, the average person spent $79 on books as compared to $56 on recorded music.
When I was 11, I spent eight months in the hospital with rheumatic fever and almost died.
I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.
What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.
I spent 10 years in New York doing theater.
I spent so many years with people saying, 'Hey, you're like America's boyfriend!'
'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.
You live longer once you realise that any time spent being unhappy is wasted.
I spent four days and four nights just covered in blood, falling in the water.
