The birth of my sons. The birth of new emotions. . . what a privilege. What a blessing.
For me, life is an opportunity to serve Him, and death is the privilege of getting to be with Him.
That life - whatever else it is - is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn’t mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we’re not always so glad to be here, it’s our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open. And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch.
And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?
If we neglect our privileges, the gods take them from us.
Each and every human being on Earth has both the responsibility and the privilege of viewing themselves as Divine beings with the power to bring about peace.
It is an immense privilege to be able to play in the NHL. I was very blessed and a lot of things went my way to be able to make it.
I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.
I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist.
Being a role model is a privilege.
You might be smarter, your family might come from privilege, your daddy might own a company, but YOU WILL NOT OUT WORK ME!
It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.
We can learn that reward comes in creation and re-creation, no just in the consumption of the world around us. Active participation in the process of creation is our right and our privilege. We can learn to measure the success of our ideas not by our bank accounts by their impact on the world.
Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.
The more you think about and interact with other people, the more you realize that it is untenable to privilege your interests over theirs.
We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.
Representing Australia has always been a honour and a privilege, and the older and more experienced I get, the more I enjoy it.
We can reproduce within our own minds the way that the world is put together for other people. This is the extraordinary privilege and adventure of anthropology.
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
For 20 years I've had the privilege of representing Canada around the globe. . . first on the bike and then on my blades. The experiences have shaped me into who I am today.