Quotes About Routine

Some days felt longer than other days. Some days felt like two whole days. Unfortunately those days were never weekend days. Our Saturdays and Sundays passed in half the time of a normal workday. In other words, some weeks it felt like we worked ten straight days and had only one day off.

Hank Nearly was an avid reader. He arrived early in his brown corduroy coat, with a book taken from the library, copied all the pages on the Xerox machine, and sat at his desk reading what looked passebly like the honest pages of business. He's make it through a three-hundred-page novel every two or three days.

I leave the world in terrible turmoil. I come back, same turmoil. Nothing at all different. Well, outfits are a little different...

The minutiae of our lives! Telephone calls, errands, appointments. None of these is of the slightest significance to others and but fleetingly to us yet they constitute such a portion of our lives, it might be argued that our lives are a concatenation of minutiae interrupted at unpredictable times by significant events.

it might be argued that our lives are a concatenation of minutiae interrupted at unpredictable times by significant events.

left the house in time to catch the bus. Lorraine called goodbye after her as always but Tippi scarcely glanced back, and her voice was flat, almost inaudible—"Bye, Mom.

One of my lifetime addictions, to this bitterly black steaming-hot liquid, would begin at this hour, in such innocence.

Recuerde: los expertos dicen que son necesarios treinta días para formar o romper un hábito, y si usted lo toma día a día, no parecerá tan difícil.

take responsibility for your joy and never again give anyone else the job of keeping you happy. Add a little variety to your life—break up your routine, do something different, and so on. When you do, expect God to meet you and help make your ordinary… extraordinary!

My brother's a pain. He won't get out of bed In the morning. Mom has to carry him Into the kitchen. He opens his eyes

Feeding Tootsie can be an all-day project.

The next day, when I got up, Fudge's bed was empty. He doesn't know you're supposed to sleep late when

I wear the skirt with boots and a loose white sweater. I have to pick a dozen cat hairs off it. Minka must have been sleeping in my sweater drawer. When I forget to close my dresser drawers she hops right in and makes herself at home.

Fatigue can make it hard to have faith. Too much busyness can make it hard to have faith. Too much of too little solitude can impact faith. For that matter, so can a bout of hunger or overwork, anything carried to an extreme. Faith thrives on routine. Look at any monastery and you will see that. Faith keeps on keeping on.

There is a treadmill quality to workaholism.

they will remain where they are as long as they continue to do as they do.

We're just going around all day like unconscious machines, and meanwhile there's all this rage and worry and uneasiness just building up and building up inside us

No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.

Nothing is so safe as habit, even when habit is faked.

There is no way to step off the tread mill. It is all treadmill.

Habit is my true, my wedded wife.

Mailbox scenes are the dramatic moments of our totally undramatic life.

Mailbox scenes are the dramatic moments of our undramatic life.

I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office.