We have to remember that no matter how much hardship we go through in our life, there is always going to be that fragile place in our heart.
I was thinking about this girl you love so much," she said, "And this place I love so much. And how that happens. How you can just fall into it.
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
Being your best is not so much about overcoming the barriers other people place in front of you as it is about overcoming the barriers we place in front of ourselves.
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Never make decisions from a place of lack.
It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.
No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
The past should not be a place where we live, but something from which we learn.
Bran grabbed my hand,pulled me to a chest, and swung the heavy lid open. A white cloth covered the contents. He jerked it aside. Human heads filled the chest. "Oh God. " He scooped a mummified head from the chest by a scalp lock and thrust it at me. "All of them are mine. " This was officially the weirdest version of "come down to my place and I'll show you some etchings" I've ever been hit with.
I have no idea where I'm going but here's the real question: What am I doing here in the first place?
I live in California, the worst place in the world for fat people. There are three of us. They have us on eight-hour shifts, so it works out.
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
You can never achieve anything in a house unless you have things that have been passed down and you find a place for them for yourself.
Our fleshly nature tempts us to put ourselves above others or seek a position or place for ourselves instead of allowing others to have it.
It's obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world is a fundamentally evil place, it seems like. So in order to be a good person, you have to fight temptation and vice.
We are here because over billions of years, countless variables fell into place, any of which could have taken another path. We are essentially a beautiful fluke, as are the millions of other species with which we share this planet. Our cells are composed of atoms and dust particles from distant galaxies, and from the billions of living organisms that inhabited this planet before us.
Second place is the first loser.
I don't feel I have to write deep and meaningful songs; they can be light and meaningless. It has to do with the place I am in my life, a really good place.
A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.