Our Usual Quotes

13 quotes by 12 authors

• Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine. — Shunryu Suzuki
• If you are bent on assuming a pose and never reveal yourself to anyone frankly, in the fashion of many who live a false life… — Seneca the Younger
• A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will… — William James
• Nothing is impossible when we follow our inner guidance, even when its direction may threaten us by reversing our usual logic. — Gerald Jampolsky
• Usually we regard loneliness as an enemy. Heartache is not something we choose to invite in. It's restless and pregnant and hot with the desire… — Pema Chodron
• A relationship that has any depth and power at all will inevitably penetrate our usual shield of defenses, exposing our most tender and sensitive spots,… — John Welwood
• Find a gap between a trigger event and our usual conditioned response to it and by using that pause to collect ourselves and shift our… — Sharon Salzberg
• Over many decades, our usual practice is that if something we like goes down, we buy more and more. Sometimes something happens, you realize you’re… — Charlie Munger
• Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and ordinary… — Joseph Addison
• In our usual mind state, we are continually activating the process that in Buddhist terminology is known as 'bhava,' which literally means 'becoming.' In this… — Sharon Salzberg
• There’s something insupportable about being pissed with the one person on this planet that sends your adrenaline flowing to remind you that you’re alive. It’s… — Ana Castillo
• We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and… — Leo Tolstoy
• Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape — Loren Eiseley

Who Wrote These Our Usual Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 13 Our Usual Quotes as follows:

• 2 Our Usual Quotes by Sharon Salzberg
• 1 Our Usual Quote by Shunryu Suzuki
• 1 Our Usual Quote by Seneca the Younger
• 1 Our Usual Quote by William James
• 1 Our Usual Quote by Gerald Jampolsky
• 1 Our Usual Quote by Pema Chodron
• 1 Our Usual Quote by John Welwood
• 1 Our Usual Quote by Charlie Munger
• 1 Our Usual Quote by Joseph Addison
• 1 Our Usual Quote by Ana Castillo
• 1 Our Usual Quote by Leo Tolstoy
• 1 Our Usual Quote by Loren Eiseley