Quotes About Everyday

No huir de la vida cotidiana sino transformar la totalidad de mis vivencias en una energía distinta, convertirlas en una parte de mí.

Our lives may be warped, but we live them all the same. One day to the next.

Stories, humorous, heart-rending, arose every day. Anywhere people were jammed up close together and forced to share their lives.

Matter matters to God. The most ordinary things are drenched in divine possibility. Pronouncing blessings upon them is the least we can do.

Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe. —SAINT TERESA OF LISIEUX

I write about the emotional crises that we face in our lives. Readers tell me that they identify with my characters. They know them. They are them. I'm an everyday woman writing about everyday people facing not- so-everyday challenges. And believe me, I love readers like you to bits. I've built my career one reader at a time. I owe a dept of gratitude to you all!

to wear every day, not big things that are only for dress." Another pause. "Yes, they were very expensive, but expensive doesn't make them right. I buy costume jewelry that I love, and I wear it all the time, because

The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.

After all, life was like that for most of us – the small unpleasantnesses rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather than the great renunciations and dramatic love affairs of history or fiction.

Yes, life has to go on, and I suppose a cup of tea does make it seem to be doing that more than anything.

At Christmas, Dulcie thought, people seemed to lose their status as individuals in their own right and became, as it were, diminished in stature, mere units in families, when for the rest of the year they were bold and original and often the kind of people it is impossible to imagine having such ordinary everyday things as parents. Christmas put people in their places, sent them back to the nursery or cradle, almost.

I wondered that she should waste so much energy fighting over a little matter like wearing hats in chapel, but then I told myself that, after all, life was like that for most of us -- the small unpleasantness rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather than the great renunciations and dramatic love affairs of history or fiction.

I wondered that she should waste so much energy fighting over a little matter like wearing hats in chapel, but then I told myself that, after all, life was like that for most of us—the small unpleasantnesses rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather than the great renunciations and dramatic love affairs of history or fiction.

This conversation was remarkable only in its unremarkableness.

Patanjali's method for achieving insight is far from the mystical ecstasy of a poet like St. John of the Cross or the ritual ecstasy of a shaman in a trance. It is instead a contemplative intensity that unbinds the constraints of everyday experience.

Obla dee obla dah life goes on...

I am realizing that there are opportunities everyday to encourage, evangelize, or exhort someone.

What I saw when I went to France was that really good quality education and childcare is seen there as a completely normal part of everyday life.

For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.

The words of confirmation into the Church are an invitation: 'Receive the Holy Ghost.' And that choice must be made not once, but every day, every hour, every minute.

The ridiculous events in everyday life are often overlooked - people don't recognise it as potentially cinematic.

There's something rich and nourishing in the mundane - that isn't sparkly or red carpet.

I wear T-shirts and backwards hats and buy my shoes at Payless!

The combination of lentils with rice or bulgur is the absolute height of Levantine comfort food. I could eat it every day.