Everyday life is a disaster, and disaster can liberate us.

“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

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’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

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

On my podcast, I got to interview Will Ferrell, Sam Hunt, Colin Cowherd - all these different names - and it was just really…

— Sam Darnold

In daily or everyday life, I am so impressed with tiny details, like when I look up at a street lamp falling on the…

— Makoto Shinkai

My first bill to become law repeals regulations to make everyday life easier and more affordable for Americans.

— Jon Husted

“There is a powerful difference between picturing an image that does not relate to you, and recalling something specific that you are connected with.…

— Adam Houge

Ultimately, we want to provide people with a unique experience, and an unexpected one as well. We'd like people to leave the theater having…

— Rania Attieh

Families are like friends at school, at first you have no idea about them, but right after you talk talking and getting attach to…

— Asiya Sasika Khan

Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open…

— Aaron Betsky

This is the industry that wants [music], the rap industry. You have to be on deck all the time, but you do not have…

— Young Thug

As your awareness of the riches available to you in your everyday life grows, you are on the way to becoming the laughing Buddha.…

— Susan Jeffers

Security is a component of everyday life that one spending time in Washington, D.C., gets accustomed to. Metal detectors, police vehicle barriers and heavily-armed…

— Mike Crapo

“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the…

— Edgar Allan Poe