Quotes About Everyday

I did it because you are the epitome of ordinariness.

Solemos pensar mejor y relacionarnos de forma más eficaz unos con otros cuando tomamos cierta distancia de lo cotidiano, que es donde es más probable que estén centrados nuestros temores y deseos más inmediatos.

King nos pedía que creyéramos en la posibilidad de que se produjeran pequeños actos cotidianos de fraternidad, no en un mundo perfecto. Lo real se vuelve así bello y a eso es a lo que se adhiere la esperanza. El utopismo es un precursor de la desesperanza; por ello, la fe y la esperanza necesitan encontrar belleza en lo cercano.

Es kann sein, daß wir eines Tages aus unserer Alltäglichkeit herausrücken und in die Macht der Dichtung einrücken müssen, daß wir nie mehr so in die Alltäglichkeit zurückkehren, wie wir sie verlassen haben.

The great begins great, sustains itself only through the free recurrence of greatness, and if it is great, also comes to an end in greatness. ... Only the everyday understanding and small man imagine the great must ensure forever, a duration he then goes on to equate with the eternal.

The higher compulsion of the earth does not reside primary in the everyday and in deeds, but rather already in the creative force of questioning and in the world-configuring power of a people.

what is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance. In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backwards. That is a very useful accomplishment, and a very easy one, but people do not practise it much. In the every-day affairs of life it is more useful to reason forwards, and so the other comes to be neglected. There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.

I abhor the dull routine of existence.

Crime is commonplace, existence is commonplace, and no qualities save those which are commonplace have any function upon earth.

The ordinary life of every day, so far as it is not moved by passion, is tedious and insipid; and if it is so moved, it soon becomes painful.

Love, after all, is the ingredient that separates a sacrifice from ordinary, everyday butchery.

this foggy little back lane, with its everyday humdrumness, its vulgarity, its unfortunate but tolerable inequities, its donkeys and its minor cruelties, is like a small corner of Paradise. The shops in the market sell food and flowers and clothes and mobile phones, not grenades and machine guns. Children play at ringing doorbells, not at being suicide bombers. We have our troubles, our terrible moments, yes, but these are only aberrations.

When, as the researchers put it, "life's fragility is primed," people's goals and motives in their everyday lives shift completely. It's perspective, not age, that matters most. Tolstoy

When, as the researchers put it, "life's fragility is primed," people's goals and motives in their everyday lives shift completely. It's perspective, not age, that matters most.

When life's fragility is primed peoples goals and motives in their every day lives shift completely. It's perspective not age that matters most.

But as your horizons contract—when you see the future ahead of you as finite and uncertain—your focus shifts to the here and now, to everyday pleasures and the people closest to you. Carstensen gave her hypothesis the impenetrable name "socioemotional selectivity theory.

Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal.

We can continue to live exactly as we do right now, in a heavy lidded state of love and unspeakable compromise. Isn't that what people do? Every day? Don't they ache but rename it tired?

We are storytelling animals, and cannot bear to acknowledge the ordinariness of our daily lives

When I encountered these haunting words from Franz Kafka, I realized exactly why this light sermon about the search for God had struck such a nerve: Everyday life is the greatest detective story ever written. Every second, without noticing, we pass by thousands of corpses and crimes. That's the routine of our lives.

Every day is a good day, not only Good Friday. Every day is a holy day, not only Holy Thursday.Be holy and do good everyday.

Magic is only magic when don't know 'how', when you know it, it can be experienced everyday!!!

...for life is magic, magic is life, the left-over life we don't even notice we're living.

The only day you should never write and achieve your goals is when the day ends with the letter y.