Daily Life Quotes - Page 12

• If we can look upon our work not for self-benefit,but as a means to benefit society,we will be practicing appreciation and patience in our daily lives.

  Gautama Buddha

  Appreciation, Mean, Self

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• We are all inspired by the incredible stories of handicapped people who write novels with their toes, cancer victims who run marathons for cancer research, bereaved parents who set up memorial funds for their lost children. How much easier is it for most of us to be small heroes simply by taking responsibility for our daily lives and transcending our ordinary obstacles?

  Danah Zohar

  Running, Children, Cancer

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• People tend to focus on the here and now. The problem is that, once global warming is something that most people can feel in the course of their daily lives, it will be too late to prevent much larger, potentially catastrophic changes.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Motivational, People, Focus

  "A Planetary Problem". Interview with Amy Davidson, www.newyorker.com. April 25, 2005.

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• Imagination is best fed by reality, an odd diet for something nonexistent there are few details of daily life and its broad range of emotional context that can't be transformed into food for the imagination.

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Reality, Emotional, Imagination

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• Usually, when the distractions of daily life deplete our energy, the first thing we eliminate is the thing we eliminate is the thing we need the most: quiet, reflective time. Time to dream, time to contemplate what's working and what's not, so that we can make changes for the better.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Inspirational, Dream, Energy

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• All of us face challenges in our daily lives. Yet in challenges lie some of our greatest opportunities. As we recognize and act on our opportunities, progress, happiness, and spiritual growth follows. We need to be involved in moving the Lord's work forward. The opportunities available to us are endless.

  H. David Burton

  Spiritual, Lying, Moving

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• In daily life, reality gives us material incentives to restrain our irrationality. But what incentive do we have to think rationally about politics?

  Bryan Caplan

  Reality, Thinking, Giving

  Bryan Caplan (2008). “The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies (New Edition)”, p.206, Princeton University Press

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• Let us bequeath our children more than the gadgets that surround us. If bicycling can be restored to the daily life of all Americans, it can be a vital step toward rebuilding health and vigor in all of us.

  Paul Dudley White

  Children, Vigor, Gadgets

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• The Warrior of the Light concentrates on the small miracles of daily life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Warrior, Light

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• The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life.

  Dalai Lama

  Real, Hero, Compassion

  Dalai Lama, Anne Benson, Fabien Ouaki (2016). “Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• Worldly influences would hinder use of our agency afforded through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. But we are agents who can act, and that affects everything in terms of how we live the gospel in our daily lives. It affects how we pray, how we study the scriptures, how we worship at church.

  David A. Bednar

  Jesus, Agency, Church

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• Heavenly Father has given a simple pattern for us to receive the Holy Ghost not once but continually in the tumult of our daily lives. The pattern is repeated in the sacramental prayer: We promise that we will always remember the Savior. We promise to take His name upon us. We promise to keep His commandments.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Prayer, Father, Simple

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• She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

  John Mason Brown

  Life, Education, Purpose

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• Life has many good things. The problem is that most of these good things can be gotten only by sacrificing other good things. We all recognize this in our daily lives. It is only in politics that this simple, common sense fact is routinely ignored.

  Thomas Sowell

  Sacrifice, Simple, Common Sense

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• Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which is identical for everyone, and need only be turned up like a page in an account-book or the record of a will; our social personality is created by the thoughts of other people.

  Marcel Proust

  Book, People, Personality

  Marcel Proust (2008). “The Senses of Consciousness: Swann's Way in Half”, p.15, Lulu.com

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• it is wrong to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences... but it is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life. For he thereby deprives his life a dimension of beauty.

  Milan Kundera

  Men, Mysterious, Coincidence

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• When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out to be in terms of daily life. We gave up the aroma of warm bread rising, the measured pace of nurturing routines, the creative task of molding our families' tastes and zest for life; we received in exchange the minivan and the Lunchable.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Zest, Careers, Creative

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• Artists lead unglamorous daily lives of discipline and routine, but their work is full of passion. Each has a vision and feels responsibility to that vision.

  Merrill Brockway

  Dance, Passion, Responsibility

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• Buddha is in our hearts. Buddha is in our mouths. Buddha is in our daily lives.

  Gautama Buddha

  Determination, Heart, Commitment

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• It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead 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. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Mean, Responsibility

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

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• Travel broadens, they say. My personal experience has been that, in the short term at any rate, it merely flattens, aiming its steam-roller of deadlines and details straight at one's daily life, leaving a person flat and gasping at its passage.

  Laurie R. King

  Leaving, Details, Steam

  Laurie R. King (2016). “The Mary Russell Series 9-Book Bundle: O Jerusalem, Justice Hall, The Game, Locked Rooms, The Language of Bees, The God of the Hive, Pirate King, Garment of Shadows, Dreaming Spies”, p.785, Bantam

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• I act according to the requirements of the character, and if I try to play the role, then I play it truthfully. In my daily life, I'm a laid-back, peaceful guy. I'm just doing my job to act.

  Donnie Yen

  Jobs, Character, Play

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• I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.

  Amy Tan

  Writing, Simple, Ideas

  Amy Tan (2003). “The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life”, p.181, Penguin

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• That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Experience, Life Is, Oneself

  D. H. Lawrence, Book House (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.805, Book House

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• The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Kindness, Humility

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: The voice of truth”

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