Daily Life Quotes - Page 16

• I don't really think about doing something kind, I think there's just a way to conduct your daily life with compassion to other people.

  Kat Dennings

  Thinking, Compassion, People

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• The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.

  Robert Doisneau

  Movie, Photography, Directors

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• Be the change you want to see.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Art, Destiny, People

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.14, Faber & Faber

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• I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live by Christ's standards in your own daily life.

  Keith O'Brien

  Jesus, Simple, Trying

  "Catholic cardinal calls on Christians to wear their crosses every day" by Damien Pearse, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2012.

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• You cannot extend the mastery of government over the daily life of a people without somewhere making it master of people's souls and thoughts.... Every step in that direction poisons the very roots of liberalism. It poisons political equality, free speech, free press, and equality of opportunity. It is the road not to more liberty but to less liberty.

  Herbert Hoover

  Opportunity, Government, Roots

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President”

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• Every marvel of our age arose out of the critical give and take of an open society. No other civilization ever managed to incorporate this crucial innovation, weaving it into daily life. And if you disagree with this... say so!

  David Brin

  Civilization, Giving, Innovation

  Orbit Interview, www.sffworld.com. July 19, 2002.

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• Simplicity of living, if deliberately chosen, implies a compassionate approach to life. It means that we are choosing to live our daily lives with some degree of conscious appreciation of the condition of the rest of the world.

  Duane Elgin

  Appreciation, Mean, Simplicity

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• Death, torture and prison are part of daily life for the youth of Iran. They are not like us, my friends and I at their age; they are not scared. They are not what we were. They hold hands and scream: “Don’t be afraid! Don’t be afraid! We are together!” They understand that no one will give them their rights; they must go get them.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Rights, Hands, Iran

  "I Must Go Home to Iran Again" by Marjane Satrapi, www.nytimes.com. July 3, 2009.

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• I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch.

  Emma Thompson

  Bottles, Typical, Film

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• I find daily life not always joyous, but always interesting. I have some sad days and nights, but none that are dull. As I advance deeper into the vale of years, I live with constantly increasing gusto and excitement. I am sure it all means something; in the last analysis, I am an optimist because I believe in God. Those who have no faith are quite naturally pessimists and I do not blame them.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Life, Believe, Mean

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• Thoughtful financial planning can easily take a backseat to daily life.

  Suze Orman

  Thoughtful, Planning, Financial

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• Why is one a slave to thought ? Why has thought become so important in all our lives -thought being ideas, being the response to the accumulated memories in the brain cells? Perhaps many of you have not even asked such a question before, or if you have you may have said, "it's of very little importance- what is important is emotion." But I don't see how you can separate the two. If thought does not give continuity to feeling, feeling dies very quickly. So why in our daily lives, in our grinding, boring, frightened lives, has thought taken on such inordinate importance?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Memories, Taken, Cells

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• We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor knows that hidden inside himself there's a wizard and a king, he also knows that when he's playing himself in his daily life, he's playing a part, he's performing, just as he's performing when he plays a part on stage.

  Wallace Shawn

  Kings, Play, Actors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life.

  Josephine Baker

  Savages, Stage, Civilized

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• I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Way, Trade, Wanted

  "Sarah Jessica Parker's Next Act". Interview with Leslie Bennetts, www.marieclaire.com. August 09, 2011.

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• I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.

  Eddie Vedder

  Nice, Thinking, Two

  "Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. November 6, 2002.

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• We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.

  William James

  Life, Work, Hands

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• ... consciousness is an ever-unfolding, deepening, and expanding process with no end point. We are infinite and complex beings, and our human journey involves not just a spiritual awakening, but the development of all levels of our being - spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical - and the integration of all these aspects into a healthy and balanced daily life.

  Shakti Gawain

  Life, Spiritual, Journey

  Shakti Gawain (2008). “Living in the Light: A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.25, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• As individual people, embedded in our daily lives, of course we're interested in what makes one person different from another. We've got to hire one person and not another, marry one person and not another.

  Steven Pinker

  People, Different, Embedded

  "Basic instincts". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2007.

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• What you learn about pain in formal meditation can help you relate to it in your daily life.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Pain, Meditation, Helping

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Dec 07, 2016

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• However, the daily life of the slaves in the South, as observed by many travelers, was obscured for all time by the relentless promotion of a single book, Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Even today, any black who dares to say that perhaps we are not as badly off as our brethren in the jungles of Africa is hooted down as an "Uncle Tom." [...] It was no accident that Harriet Beecher Stowe's book became the greatest best seller of its time - it was tirelessly promoted throughout the entire nation, in the most successful book promotion campaign in our history.

  Eustace Mullins

  Uncles, War, Book

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  I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Desire, Inarticulate

  Virginia Woolf (1990). “A moment's liberty: the shorter diary”, Vintage

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• A lot of mantras that I use in my daily life to get through - to move through the world in peace and harmony with myself - find their way into the music that I make. Many of the lines that people seem to be drawn to in my music really come from these mantras that I repeat to myself to try and move through the world in more thoughtful, comfortable way.

  Jenn Wasner

  Moving, Thoughtful, People

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I think daily life is where the lessons come in - that's where the tests and the growth come in.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Growth, Lessons

  Source: scottlondon.com

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