Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONUnhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe best work is a fusion of love and praise.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONit’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere are no inanimate objects.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONItaly offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONI love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONI love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONInsanity is a lack of proportion.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONDesire creates its own object.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONItalians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONIf there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe past is a sorry country.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONWhat you desire you call into being.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONSometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. … Is this true?
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON