Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options.
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
We can no longer take our own way of life for granted - we know that it may be challenged. And we know this, too - and know it ever more deeply - we know that freedom and democracy are not just big words mouthed by orators but the rain and the wind and the sun, the air and the light by which we breathe and live.
I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.
I have my own orchard, and I also work with the Bloomington Community Orchard, which has been one of the best experiences of my life.
I can't play an instrument to save my life. But when I'm creating, and when I'm making music, I feel like I'm the head of the orchestra, and I'm just waving my wand, and something is created.
Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.
If I'm ordering power bars online, I'll order 480. Everything is times-10 in my life.
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
Crime and violence are a threat to the freedom and liberty people should enjoy and to our orderly way of life.
Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.
I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.
Despite being the greatest, Messi is an ordinary guy. He speaks like a normal guy, he acts like a normal guy. As a normal person, he has family, day-to-day problems in his life, friends and family, the usual.
I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life.
I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely lose yourself. The bits of your personality that you keep under wraps in ordinary life, you can let them run free.
'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life.
Glamour is a beautiful illusion - the word 'glamour' originally meant a literal magic spell - that promises to transcend ordinary life and make the ideal real. It depends on a special combination of mystery and grace. Too much information breaks the spell.
I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.
