Familiar Quotes

1103 Familiar quotes by 886 unique authors

Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then, and find… — Roger Angell
My friends are mostly familiar with music that plays on the mainstream radio. — Jessica Sanchez
Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their living in the… — Robert James Waller
The Learner must be led always from familiar objects toward the unfamiliar, guided along, as it were, a chain of flowers into the mysteries of… — Unknown Author
There is a value in repetition. When we repeat certain phrases and even actions, like fingering prayer beads, we create a quiet rhythm within our… — Stephen J. Binz
Today you may not be familiar with the happiness habit. But like any new behavior, happiness can be learned. — Sarah Ban Breathnach
Bingeing is such an emotionally frenetic activity that no other concerns can exist in the same space. It is a hell that people who are… — Geneen Roth
Adventrue rewrites the routine of our lives and wakes us sharply from the comforts of the familiar. It allows us to see how vast the… — Josh Gates
The mind, conditioned as it is by the past, always seeks to re-create what it knows and is familiar with. Even if it is painful,… — Eckhart Tolle
The Buddha taught that flexibility and openness bring strength and that running from groundlessness weakens us and brings pain. But do we understand that becoming… — Pema Chodron
In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and in unexpected situations.… — Alexander Rodchenko
Adam Nevill a spine-chiller in the classic tradition, a writer who draws you in from the world of the familiar, eases you into the world… — Michael Koryta
A woman puts on a new dress eyeliner lip gloss to please others. A woman paints her toes to please herself. And if there was… — Molly Harper
Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new all over again. — Anthony Doerr
The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This is true of chocolate and… — Anthony Doerr
For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready… — Margaret J. Wheatley
If any value is deeply evolutionarily familiar, it is reproductive success. If any value is truly unnatural, if there is one thing that humans (and… — Satoshi Kanazawa
In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness… — Marcus Aurelius
Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing. — Rebecca Solnit
People who have no secrets from each other never want for a subject of conversation. They do not weigh their words, for there is nothing… — Francois Fenelon
Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning… — Andrew Wyeth
Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness. — William Wordsworth
If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out… — Elizabeth Gilbert
PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune.… — Ambrose Bierce
The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with. — Robert Quine

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