Perhaps we could enjoy ordinary, everyday life more if we…

In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.

— Plato

The only thing that makes me interesting as a writer is that I'm just talking common sense. The most ordinary, everyday sort of common…

— Shelby Steele

Prayer is such an ordinary, everyday, mundane thing. Certainly, people who pray are no more saints than the rest of us. Rather, they are…

— Roberta Bondi

Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!

— Agatha Christie

“But it’s how we handle the ‘ordinary, everyday small stuff’ that lays the groundwork for handling the ‘big stuff.”

— Adele Faber

Either we learn to find the Lord in the ordinary everyday life or else we shall never find him

— Josemaria Escriva

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

— Iris Murdoch

... the most ordinary everyday living is as delicate, as breath-taking, as difficult, takes as terrific physical and mental control and effort, as walking…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary everyday routine.”

— Thomas Merton

“grounded in the midst of outer chaos, disorder, or ordinary, everyday bustle.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“The only cure for all social ills in our world today is the discovery and creation of more and more ordinary everyday heroes.”

— Jeroninio Almeida

As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So…

— Edward Witten

“Let’s say you have an ax. Just a cheap one, from Home Depot. On one bitter winter day, you use said ax to behead…

— David Wong

When you're being truly creative, time stands still, and you enter a dimension that can carry you beyond the ordinariness of everyday life.

— Denise Linn

“Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep, inexpressible certitude…

— Thomas Merton