An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
Aledo will always be home to me because I spent the first 27 years of my life there - it's such a special place - and because of the experiences I had there, I've become the person I am today.
For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a meaning.
The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.
Even if you actually have the good intent to do something creative or special with your life, it's hard. I mean, look at the number of people who actually get the opportunity.
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
I am what I am, I'm doing very well in my life, and I'm thankful to God for that.
Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.
More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.
I think age is just something written down on a piece of paper. I mean, you come across 20-year-olds who are like old people sometimes. I've never taken much account of age throughout my life - my own or anyone else's.
If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion.
I'm a middle-aged dad, which means I have no social time or life to speak of, and so I connect with my buddies with my Xbox.
Francis seems familiar because Catholics have already known him in the Vatican II priests who have been their pastors and sacramental ministers over the years since that council brought new life to an old church. Catholics have known him in the bishops and priests who brought the spirit of the council to their dioceses and parishes.
The way that I live my life is on spontaneity.
In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to be strong and make my own choices and do what's best in my life, so if you're dating someone who doesn't want you to be the best person you can be, you shouldn't be dating them.
Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.
Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.
My son is an integral part of my life; the fact of life is that parents and children need you; wife doesn't really need you.
I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.
Passion is what adds so much value to life. And if you think about the things that you do, there's so much juice potential for them if you do it.
Yeah, I think there are many other important things in life, not just tennis.
Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.
I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it.
Something that's such a joy in my life every day - cooking - is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world.
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Yeah, I'd been around horses most of my life.
In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure.
I get to be the nosiest friend or acquaintance that anyone has because it's - my job is to ask you about your dating life all the time.
I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.
I'll let life take me where it will.
In some cases I feel like they haven't appreciated enough that growing up doesn't mean boring and old and not full of life. I like to talk about that also.
I love a good laugh as well, I think that's so important in life, which is probably why I've dabbled in comedy writing as well as horror. I think if you can make someone laugh or smile it's the most special thing in the world.
I have nothing in my life besides my work. I am obsessed with it. I leave my house only when I'm forced to.