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Quotes About Routine

Maybe I should love someone mundane and let them bore me to death.
~ Ahmed Mostafa
There were three things I had to do on my way to class.
~ Mineko Iwasaki
Un om tr?ieÅŸte autentic... Un credincios nu are mai mult de dou?, trei experienÅ£e religioase în toat? viaÅ£a lui, ad?ugase. Restul e rutin?. Ca ÅŸi viaÅ£a noastr?: o serie nesfârÅŸit? de automatisme. Doar câteva ceasuri autentice la zece, cincisprezece ani. Åži când vrei s? ieÅŸi din rutin?, faci istorie...
~ Mircea Eliade
Most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.
~ Mitch Albom
We're Tuesday people.
~ Mitch Albom
Had he known his death was imminent, he might have gone somewhere else. Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his dull routine as if all the days in the world were still to come.
~ Mitch Albom
we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.
~ Mitch Albom
You know how it is- you get used to something, people rely on you, one day you wake up and you can't tell Tuesday from Thursday. You're doing the same boring stuff.
~ Mitch Albom
Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his dull routine as if all the days in the world were still to come.
~ Mitch Albom
I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life. On the people who are coming to see me. On the stories that I'm going to hear. On you, if it's Tuesday. Because we're Tuesday people.
~ Mitch Albom
We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.
~ Mitch Albom
You know how it is--you get used to something, people rely on you, one day you wake up and you can't tell Tuesday from Thursday. You're doing the same boring stuff, you're a 'ride man
~ Mitch Albom
Life was fleeting, I had learned, and death guaranteed. There had to be some greater purpose to it than the routine existance of daily life.
~ Moazzam Begg
but that is the way of things, with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying
~ Mohsin Hamid
I must concentrate on the routine or it will not have the desired effect. Indian clubs are not only for strength, core stability, flexibility, they work also at the neural level—you know this word?—they build the connection between the body and the mind.
~ Monica Ali
Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.
~ Mortimer Adler
Now there is no other way of forming a habit of operation than by operating.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
Knowing the rules of an art is not the same as having the habit.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
But still, he reflected, I ought to wash my pajamas more often. Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed. --Tengo, IQ84
~ Murakami Haruki
Her lips are slightly parted: she, whose lips are usually pressed together with the daily disapprovals of the accountants' office where she has worked continually, except for the months of illness, since she was 18, that is to say, for 16 years and some months. Her lips, when she does not speak or eat, are normally pressed together like the ruled line of a balance sheet, marked straight with her old-fashioned lipstick, a final and judjing mouth, a precision instrument.
~ Muriel Spark
the whole purpose of civilization is to take the surprises out of life, so one can be bored to death
~ Murray Leinster
He didn't want anything new in his life, no matter how beautiful.
~ Nancy Farmer
A crowd of women around me doing the ocean of women's work that never subsided and never changed and always swallowed whatever time you gave it and wanted more, another hungry body of water. I submerged into it like a ritual bath and let it close over my head gladly.
~ Naomi Novik
Each morning he begs his parents not to read the newspaper, knowing how their faces go half-blank and mad
~ Naomi Shihab Nye