Quotes About Everyday

I love to take things that are everyday and comforting and make them into the most luxurious things in the world.

I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier.

The only enlightened masters I know are the people that I see every day and the people that I've seen through my life who have had the understanding, at some level, that we're here to express love.

I love the practicality of a good car. You know what I mean? And when I say 'practicality,' I mean the complete practicality of a Ferrari 458, a wonderfully fantastic every day car.

I believe that photography loves banal objects, and I love the life of objects.

I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more.

The thing I love about television is that people watch you in their pajamas, and when they're eating dinner. You're part of the family.

Vaak heb je toeschouwers van elders nodig om de schoonheid die ons dagelijks omringt te benadrukken: onszelf valt die 'tere, zilvergrijze toon' vaak niet eens (meer) op, omdat we hem als vanzelfsprekend beschouwen, citaat uit 'Hollands licht

It is the things that occur every single day that truly make up our lives.

it is the things that occur every single day that truly make up our lives, and time spent the same way over and again adds up at an alarming rate.

Does truth lie in the everyday events, the daily incidents, in the pettiness and vulgarity most people's lives are compounded of, or does the truth have its abode in the dream it is given us to dream to flee our sad human condition?

He cared little for commonly experienced emotions, for everyday associations of ideas, now that the closing of his mind had grown more pronounced, and he allowed access only to the most highly refined sensations, to crises of faith and to violent disorders of the senses.

Persons of good sense are necessarily dull, because they revolve over and over again the tedious topics of everyday life.

O característico do momento é que a alma vulgar, sabendo-se vulgar, tem a audácia de afirmar o direito à vulgaridade e o impõe em toda parte.

The war against the dragon is not, therefore, a war against a physical monster, like a dinosaur, but a battle against the wickedness we encounter in our everyday lives. We all face our daily dragons and we must all defend ourselves from them and hopefully slay them. The sobering reality is that we must either fight the dragons that we encounter in life or become dragons ourselves. There is no "comfortable" alternative.

I'm not . . . special

Strano sapersi perduti tutti i giorni e non dirsi mai addio

He invented ordinary things, and I stress, ordinary. Not brilliant, just ordinary, and that's exactly what humanity needs. Brilliant inventions might be good for brilliant people, but how many brilliant people are there? On the other hand, ordinary inventions are good for everyone.

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

I know God has been found by unusual people in unusual places--in a sudden vision in a grove or orchard or grotto, or on a mountain or in a closet, or through saintly service to African lepers or to Calcutta untouchables. But for most of us, most of the time, I am convinced he can be found most surely in 'the natural sequence to the performance' of the duties he has given us that all of us (not just the unusual) can perform in our own homes and neighborhoods.

what seems more important are the private independent acts that become more necessary every day:

Pastoral work is a commitment to the everyday: it is an act of faith that the great truths of salvation are workable in the "ordinary universe.

The indifference of the everyday gets the better of us all.

We don't have to privilege accumulation over distribution. But that is the rule that governs our everyday lives—our work and our play.