Daily Life Quotes - Page 10

• Daily life is both the subject and environment of the work I am making.

  Camille Henrot

  Life Is, Environment, Subjects

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or magnificence; but gentleness, temperance, modesty, and humility, are graces which ought to colour everything we do. There may be virtues of a more exalted mould, but... these are the most continually called for in daily life.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Humility, Exercise, Opportunity

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.177, Catholic Way Publishing

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• It fills me with joy to realize that I can lay down my life daily for God, that I can sacrifice it willingly for Him. I may not be a martyr for the faith, but I can be a martyr of charity.

  Rose Philippine Duchesne

  Sacrifice, Joy, Charity

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• Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life.

  Josiah Royce

  Memories, Self, Play

  Josiah Royce, John K. Roth (1982). “The Philosophy of Josiah Royce”, p.373, Hackett Publishing

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• The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operations of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish. It is in a way the most civilised of all the cardinals, and its use is only forced on us by the needs of cultivated modes of thought.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Zero, Needs, Use

  Alfred North Whitehead (1958). “An Introduction to Mathematics”, p.43, New York : Oxford University Press, 1958 [c1948]

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• It is sometimes easier to trust God in a life-threatening battle than in the small challenges of daily life.

  Max Anders

  Challenges, Battle, Trust In God

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• Nothing in our daily life offers more of the comfort of continuity, the generational connection of belonging to a vast and complicated American family, the powerful sense of home, the freedom from time's constraints, and the great gift of accumulated memory than does our National Pastime.

  Ken Burns

  Memories, Powerful, Home

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• Power, approval, comfort, and control are meta-idols that hold sway over our daily lives.

  Timothy Keller

  Idols, Comfort, Approval

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• The most difficult part, when you decide to make running a part of your life style, is the basic initial commitment. Everybody says, 'I don't have the time.' It's up to you to say, 'I do have the time.' For me, beginning to run when I was a student was an ideal situation. However, I've also trained as much as 130 miles per week during periods when I worked a full-time job. It ultimately becomes second nature. It becomes a habit, a routine part of your daily life

  Bill Rodgers

  Running, Jobs, Commitment

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• In the daily lives of most men and women, fear plays a greater part than hope: they are more filled with the thought of the possessions that others may take from them, than of the joy that they might create in their own lives and in the lives with which they come in contact. It is not so that life should be lived.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Play, Joy

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Proposed Roads to Freedom”, p.135, Booklassic

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• I try to listen attentively to musical sounds around me. You can think of the sounds of daily life as being musical. So I try to absorb the intricacies of the sounds as I would if I were listening to a piece of music. I try to see the beauty in everything.

  Tom Harrell

  Thinking, Musical, Listening

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• In daily life language is important, if not in itself, then as a symptom.

  Mark Helprin

  Important, Language, Symptoms

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• Buddhism has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhism, People, Suffering

  "In Engaged Buddhism, Peace Begins with You". Interview with John Malkin, www.lionsroar.com. July 1, 2003.

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• I think it's become such a part of younger people's daily life to have the instant access to each other that it sometimes gets a little presumptuous. People feel like it's OK, for example, to email you with some weird personal criticism they have.

  Ted Leo

  Thinking, People, Criticism

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• We are destined for joy no matter how difficult our daily life. Something in us responds to the happiness other people experience, because we glimpse life as God intended it to be.

  Barbara Johnson

  People, Joy, Glimpse

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• People tend to comment on my feet a lot. In daily life.

  Toks Olagundoye

  Feet, People, Comment

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• And heresy is, as I have tried to show, largely the expression of opinion of the untutored average man, trying to grapple with the problems of the universe at the point where they begin to interfere with his daily life and thought.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Men, Expression, Average

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• When you talk about the security and safety of average Americans it doesn't do average Americans a lot of good to expand America's military footprint if the daily lives of average Americans are being undermined by the fact that we're no longer able to compete in a global economy. I think that's the kind of human security we have to pay more attention to.

  Peter Beinart

  Military, Thinking, Average

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The doctrine (of) maintaining that the language of daily life, with words used in their ordinary meanings, suffices for philosophy . . . I find myself totally unable to accept . . . . Because it makes almost inevitable the perpetuation amongst philosophers of the muddle-headedness they have taken over from common sense.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Taken, Common Sense

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• For most problems found in mathematics textbooks, mathematical reasoning is quite useful. But how often do people find textbook problems in real life? At work or in daily life, factors other than strict reasoning are often more important. Sometimes intuition and instinct provide better guides; sometimes computer simulations are more convenient or more reliable; sometimes rules of thumb or back-of-the-envelope estimates are all that is needed.

  Lynn Steen

  Real, People, Intuition

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• Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Scum Of The Earth, Saint, May

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.26, Penguin

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• To reflect on everything in daily life is to nurture your buddha nature.

  Shinjo Ito

  Life Is, Nurture, Buddha Nature

  Shinjō Itō (2009). “Shinjo: Reflections”, p.10

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• Live in such a way that you embody true peace, that you can be peace in every moment of your daily life.  It is possible for everyone to generate the energy of peace in every step.

  Nhat Hanh

  Energy, Way, Steps

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2004). “Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• We should be able to bring the practice of meditation hall into our daily lives. We need to discuss among ourselves how to do it. Do you practice breathing between phone calls? Do you practice smiling while cutting carrots? Do you practice relaxation after hard hours of work? These are practical questions. If you know how to apply meditation to dinner time, leisure time, sleeping time, it will penetrate your daily life, and it will also have a tremendous effect on social concerns.

  Nhat Hanh

  Sleep, Cutting, Practice

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• ...to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Thinking, Meditation, Answers

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.63, Beacon Press

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