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Quotes About Daily life

With my busy schedule, it's impossible to have a set fitness routine. So instead I like to try and incorporate exercise into my daily life whenever I can - which requires some creativity.
~ Heidi Klum
The task we face is reorganizing the systems we depend on for daily life in a way that is consistent with the realities coming down at us.
~ James Howard Kunstler
What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
come, they find us unready. Only by acting upon principle in the tests of daily life can we acquire power to stand firm and faithful in the most dangerous and most difficult positions.
~ Ellen G. White
And still greater sin is theirs who profess to know God and to keep his commandments, yet who deny Christ in their character and their daily life. In the light of the Saviour's warning, the fate of Sodom is a solemn admonition, not merely to those who are guilty of outbreaking sin, but to all who are trifling with heaven-sent light and privileges.
~ Ellen G. White
Christian documents praised missionaries for their sincere preaching of the Gospel, their piety, learning, good sense in daily life, chastity and good deeds. That they lived according to their teaching impressed the pagans. On a purely practical level, they often bought boy slaves in order to bring them up in the Christian way of life, and acquire acolytes. As Christianity is an exclusive religion, it was considered important to destroy pagan sanctuaries.
~ Else Roesdahl
In qualunque famiglia ci sono problemi che visti dal di fuori sembrerebbero insuperabili. Eppure ogni giorno si mangia lo stesso, si fanno le pulizie, il tempo scorre senza troppi drammi, ci si abitua alle situazioni più assurde. In una famiglia c'è una promessa implicita, incomprensibile per gli altri, di restare uniti per quanto le cose possano farsi complicate
~ Banana Yoshimoto
The emotional excess of music felt more real than the muted emotion and soft demeanor I expressed in daily life. When I was this passionately engaged I didn't need anything else to "complete" me; not a man, not a career affirmation. I only had to give in to the music to live an immense life that I could experience any time I chose.
~ Barbara Feldon
He had sometimes attempted to keep a diary himself, the kind of record of his daily life that could rival famous clerical diarists of the past, a nineteen-seventies Woodforde or Kilvert. What was he to write about the events of this morning? 'My sister Daphne made a gooseberry tart and told me that she was going to live on the outskirts of Birmingham'? Could that possibly be of interest to readers of the next century?
~ Barbara Pym
My seven-year-old daughter knows old songs and how the neighborhoods got their names. There are little things: Businesses receive blessings from Hawaiian priests before opening, and everyone's kids have their debut luau. You can't really get through a day without doing something Hawaiian.
~ Kaui Hart Hemmings
I felt the need to be more open and expressive of my feelings, not just about the hills and the countryside, but about the daily life.
~ Donald Hall
No domínio da vida quotidiana afigurava-se, sem dúvida, necessário, pelo menos às vezes, reflectir antes de falar, mas um membro do Partido chamado a emitir um juízo político ou ético devia ser capaz de disparar as opiniões correctas tão automaticamente como uma metralhadora dispara balas.
~ George Orwell
Cubism is a part of the daily life in Spain, it is in Spanish architecture. The architecture of other countries always follows the line of the landscape . . . but Spanish architecture always cuts the lines of the landscape.
~ Gertrude Stein
The subject must be thought of in terms of the 20th century, of houses he lives in and places he works, in terms of the kind of light the windows in these places let through and by which we see him every day.
~ Arnold Newman
It's a given that we exist in a world where we have to live in continuity every day; no one is immune to that, in life or romance novels. By the same token, it's not something I find terribly important.
~ Neil Gaiman
I would go down to the kitchen, saying 'How do you do?' to whoever I met there: ...'How are you, Mrs. Cakebread?' (That was the cook: that really was her name, it wasn't a joke and no-one laughed it it.)
~ Sarah Waters
a letter to her for? You have to put up with her every day." Papa was schmunzel
~ Markus Zusak
Flaubert said — I assume about the balance between repression and freedom — "Be regular and orderly in your daily life, so you can be violent and original in your work.
~ Stephen Dunn
It was nice to feel something other than anxiety, or mute fury, the twin emotions that seemed to make up so much of my daily life.
~ Jojo Moyes
A culture that allows the concept of "safety" to creep so far that it equates emotional discomfort with physical danger is a culture that encourages people to systematically protect one another from the very experiences embedded in daily life that they need in order to become strong and healthy.
~ Jonathan Haidt
In examining the history of cities, I looked for material in markets, souks and bazaars; in swimming pools, stadiums and parks; in street-food stalls, coffee houses and cafés; in shops, malls and department stores. I interrogated paintings, novels, films and songs as much as official records in search of the lived experience of cities and the intensity of their daily life.
~ Ben Wilson
What I hope is that politics shouldn't be dominated by the pro-Chinese elite; it should be related to everyone's daily life.
~ Joshua Wong
The grand sweep of constitutional or political history is important, but a detailed history of daily life also gives you a wonderful insight into the strange mental worlds of people in the past.
~ Lucy Worsley
Our daily life is filled with electronic pianos, ring tones, the disembodied voice giving you your bank balance over the telephone. Even silence can be electronic, courtesy of sound-canceling headphones.
~ Serge Schmemann