Best Everyday Life Quotations
365 Everyday Life quotes by 324 unique authors
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Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life
— Art Blakey
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You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
— John Ortberg
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Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I can do. Another thing—very often I…
— Ha Jin
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If we are all strong, stable, we can set our sail with any wind in the world that comes along. We make up our own…
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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St. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.' This is the conviction…
— Thomas Keating
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In everyday life there is always manana. There is no urgency
— Mark Spitz
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Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.
— Roger Scruton
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But this was the only way of life that humans knew for their first 6m years on the planet. In giving it up over the…
— Jared Diamond
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I believe the man who will go down in posterity is the man who paints his own time and the scenes of everyday life around…
— Childe Hassam
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My pictures are about getting as far away from reality as possible. Dreams should be part of our everyday life.
— David LaChapelle
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Zen is just a lifestyle, your everyday life. It is doing your best at your job, relationships, health, hobbies, and other daily activities!
— Mika
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For a million years the sound of making handaxes provided the percussion of everyday life. Anyone choosing a hundred objects to tell a history of…
— Neil MacGregor
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Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk…
— Geoff Nicholson
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Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical…
— Bertrand Russell
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The idea is that it will tell you where the importance lies, because it will be able to show you what impacts you in your…
— Unknown Author
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Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.
— Michel de Certeau
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The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned…
— Robert B. Laughlin
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The quest for homeland security is heading ... toward the quasi-militarization of everyday life ... If danger might lurk anywhere, maybe everything must be protected…
— William Greider
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One of the stories I love is how Gutenberg’s printing press set off this interesting chain reaction, where all of a sudden people across Europe…
— Steven Johnson
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Right at this moment, I only want silence. I believe that the end of life is silence in the love people have for you. I've…
— Vincent Price
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Technique does not constitute art. Nor is it a vague, fuzzy romantic quality known as ‘beauty,’ remote from the realities of everyday life. It is…
— Grant Wood
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Broken marriages, conflicts of loyalty, the problems of everyday life fall away as one faces up to [Jeff] Thomson.
— Mike Brearley
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History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children.
— Nelson Mandela
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Every day, we try to pretend that we haven't perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist; that today is the same as yesterday and will…
— Paulo Coelho
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Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life.
— Judith Viorst
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