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Quotes About Everyday

Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it's something that it doesn't get a day off.
~ Demi Lovato
All these weirdos, and me getting a little better every day right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us.
~ Denis Johnson
I believe that within the core of every human being dwells a yearning for the meaning that lies beyond the prosaic reality of everyday life. We reach out for evidence of something beyond the ordinary.
~ Denise Linn
We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work.
~ Dennis Kucinich
Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.
~ Nathaniel Branden
Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.
~ Maria Cantwell
Either we learn to find the Lord in the ordinary everyday life or else we shall never find him
~ Josemaria Escriva
Deep in the wild mountains, is a strange marketplace,where you can trade the hassle and noise of everyday life, for eternal Light.
~ Milarepa
I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses.
~ Sara Paretsky
In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.
~ Jim Valvano
Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today.
~ William Eggleston
As the Latin poet Horace once noted, the intellect of the mind knows nothing. Instead, people use it to make common sense of the world and have myths that explain things in everyday terms. Still, the secrets of the universe continue to transcend the quotidian.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
This is why my clothes come from Target; I'm there for Sharpies, so I guess I'll buy this shirt facing the aisle.
~ Jen Hatmaker
Sometimes the most ordinary things are the ones we learn to miss the most.
~ Jennifer Chiaverini
The sheer ordinariness of it all confounded Phoebe, as if any one of these things might happen several times a day, with no one watching. They belong to each other, she thought, and found herself awed by the notion -- knowing someone was there, just there, reaching for that person without a thought.
~ Jennifer Egan
I'm on an Isabel Marant kick. She does an amazing job of making things that are everyday-wearable but also special and a little bit different. I definitely like that she has a '70s western vibe. There's something that's very fun and vintage in what she's doing.
~ Jennifer Morrison
A very agreeable portrait,' [of Edgar Linton] I observed to the housekeeper. 'Is it like?' 'Yes,' she answered; 'but he looked better when he was animated; that is his everyday countenance; he wanted spirit in general.
~ Emily Bronte
Witchcraft was hung, in History, But History and I Find all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day -
~ Emily Dickinson
I put it in my hat to remember to post it,' she explained, 'but I forgot, so it came with me today still in my hat.
~ Enid Blyton
Those who fail in everyday affairs show a tendency to reach out for the impossible. It is a device to camouflage their shortcomings. For when we fail in attempting the possible, the blame is solely ours; but when we fail in attempting the impossible, we are justified in attributing it to the magnitude of the task. There is less risk in being discredited when trying the impossible than when trying the possible. It is thus that failure in everyday affairs often breeds an extravagant audacity. One
~ Eric Hoffer
Those who fail in everyday affairs show a tendency to reach out for the impossible. It is a device to camouflage their shortcomings. For when we fail in attempting the possible, the blame is solely ours; but when we fail in attempting the impossible, we are justified in attributing it to the magnitude of the task. There is less risk in being discredited when trying the impossible than when trying the possible. It is thus that failure in everyday affairs often breeds an extravagant audacity.
~ Eric Hoffer
I opened my purse, shifted through panty shields, bills, and birth control pills—I call them poppa-stoppas—and took out my menstrual calendar.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
Thou hast eternity and the moment, what matter? Time is the lure of the Realm of Darkness. Do not let thyself be caught. Have no other care than for thy mission, every day!
~ Amin Maalouf
the regular crying, lights on
~ Amir Gutfreund