Quotes About Everyday

The big things are beyond us, Georgie. We can't control them. It's the everyday things that matter in life. That's what's real.

Russian playwright Anton Chekhov once proclaimed: "Any idiot can face a crisis—it's this day-to-day living that wears you out

What made Jim truly mystical was his ability to live fully conscious of how, every day, a bit more of the sacred becomes desecrated. Still, Jim's awareness of how much had been lost didn't stop him from appreciating what remained.

Los mayores tesoros de la vida son, desde luego, sus momentos más sencillos», reflexionó. Esos hechos cotidianos que la mayoría damos por sentados. Hasta que los perdemos.

The assimilation of taboo images to the everyday language of doing business produces a strange effect. It domesticates the taboo while at the same time making the everyday transactional world more porous, more open to the forbidden. The wolf of unbridled appetite slips into everyday convention in the sheep's clothing of commercial language.

Fashion takes its inspiration from society and everyday life, which is the same for everyone, and this is perhaps the reason why certain elements recur.

It would be very interesting to design objects for everyday life, something where the ideas that are expressed can be launched into society.

I believe we have to put art back at the center of everyday life rather than allowing it to become a specialist activity at the margins of society.

Zen... does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

We do not need to achieve some minimum level or capacity or goodness before God will help - divine aid can be ours every hour of every day, no matter where we are in the path of obedience.

Spirituality doesn't look like sitting down and meditating. Spirituality looks like folding the towels in a sweet way and talking kindly to the people in the family eve though you've had a rough day.

It is a pity that the words "spiritual life" were ever invented, for they have caused so much confusion. For, in truth, there is only life-everyday life-which is simply what is at every moment.

The one seeking to demonstrate the power of spiritual realization in everyday affairs should believe in Divine guidance... and that everything in life is controlled by love, harmony, and peace.

You are always in the process of creating. Every moment, every minute, every day. You are a big creation machine and you are turning out a new manifestation literally as fast as you can think.

We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.

Viata e insa atat de banala,incat literatura trebuie sa se ocupe de lucrurile care ies din comun.

It will not have escaped you that this town simulates normality that is completely illusory: every day something happens that one might euphemistically call irritating.

The ordinary you, the you that has to go to work every morning, the you that has to run a household, pay bills, do all of those things--that you is somehow changed into an exciting, artistic, fully alive you. That's what Paris does.

His life was unrecorded; who is there to write down the lives of ordinary people?

Whisky nosers, as they called themselves, eschewed what they saw as the pretentiousness of wine vocabulary. While oenophiles resorted to recondite adjectives, whisky nosers spoke the language of everyday life, detecting hints of stale seaweed, or even diesel fuel.