Quotes About Everyday

At the heart of the novelist's craft lies an optimism which thinks that the knowledge we gather from our everyday experience, if given proper form, can become valuable knowledge about reality.

To give charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural, by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and wonders of the world before us.

As the early 20th century writer Orison Swett Marden once said, "Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.

So often, thought Rami, the ordinary can save us.

A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.

the momentous arises only from the trivial.

This is why everyday life—daily routine—is very important for us. It can let us be free from time.

Es bringt uns nämlich nicht weiter, die rätselhafte Seite am Rätselhaften pathetisch oder fanatisch zu unterstreichen; vielmehr durchdringen wir das Geheimnis nur in dem Grade, als wir es im Alltäglichen wiederfinden, kraft einer dialektischen Optik, die das Alltägliche als undurchdringlich, das Undurchdringliche als alltäglich erkennt...

It was to be a day of queer experiences. He had never realized with how many miracles mere everyday life is besieged.

One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness. Such men make this cosmos and its construction the pivot of their emotional life, in order to find the peace and security which they cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.

A truer barometer of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment of every day.

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

The commonplace is miraculous if rightly seen, if recognized.

The zombie is the absolute void present within capitalist everyday life.

The face of evil is frighteningly ordinary.

Life was menial and lacked enchantment.

Unromantic as Monday morning.

Outside of a teapot life is but thousands of dusty affairs.

From a proud unicorn stallion vomiting rainbows as he soars across the sky to toy unicorns pooping rainbows as colored jellybeans, modern culture puts its own twist on potty humor by making it light and fluffy. Don't get stuck asking yourself why unicorns fart rainbows — it's the juxtaposition of a magical creature and a disgusting everyday act that creates the joke.

Every day is Earth Day.

I used to spin the toilet paper like I was on Wheel of Fortune. Now I turn it like I'm cracking a safe.