Daily Life Quotes - Page 21

• I can claim to have made the daily life of the 20th Century more beautiful.

  Raymond Loewy

  Beautiful, Century, Claims

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• Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.

  Jorge Garcia

  Reality, People, Mixing

  "Jorge Garcia, the one-man Greek chorus who helped explain Lost" by Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2012.

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• Our duty is found in the revealed will of God in the Scriptures. Our trust must be in the sovereign will of God as He works in the ordinary circumstances of our daily lives for our good and His glory.

  Jerry Bridges

  Ordinary, Scripture, Sovereign

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Trusting God Study Guide: Even When Life Hurts”, p.34, Tyndale House

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• Is a Christian- one who communicates daily with the Creator- to divorce himself from the things God created and intended man to have, and which demonstrate the fact that man has been made in the image of God? In other words, are we who have been made in the image of our creator to be less creative than those who do not know the Creator? The Christian should have more vividly expressed creativity in his daily life.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Christian, Creativity, Divorce

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• It is more than twenty years since we left the city. This is a serious chunk of time, longer than the years we spent living there. Yet we still think of Jerusalem as our home. Not home in the sense of the place that you conduct your daily life or constantly return to. In fact, Jerusalem is our home almost against our wills. It is our home because it defines us, whether we like it or not.

  Yotam Ottolenghi

  Home, Thinking, Years

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• What makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art.

  Arsene Wenger

  Art, Interesting, Trying

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• Conflicts and factions, violence and upheavals are caused by the neglect of human values in daily life.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Violence, Upheaval, Conflict

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• Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Perception, Edges, Familiarity

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• In our daily life a certain way of thinking makes us happy, and a certain way of thinking makes us unhappy. In other words, there are certain states of mind which bring us problems, and they can be removed.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Mind, Unhappy

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• There is no fanaticism in any of this. There is intensity. You have to make it happen. You have to put your will into perfecting your daily life, into monitoring your thoughts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mindfulness, Intensity

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• Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely.

  Bonnie Friedman

  Writing, Life Is, Extraordinary

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• Geneva is a city where the living conditions and hospitality provided by both the population and authorities of Geneva - at all levels - are exemplary and greatly facilitate the work and daily life of WHO employees.

  Margaret Chan

  Cities, Population, Levels

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• That image of the common drunk is a myth. There is a thing called a maintenance drinker which may very well be a mother of four, a welder or a distinguished business person. These people build up a tolerance and manage to still maintain their daily lifestyles while constantly struggling with this disease, because it is a recognized disease by the American Medical Association.

  Lisa Anderson

  Mother, Struggle, People

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• Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering, in daily life, the comfort of other people.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Men, People, Comfort

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• Rediscover the Rosary in the light of scripture, in harmony with the Liturgy, and in the context of your daily lives.

  Pope John Paul II

  Light, Rosary, Scripture

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• Listening better. Caring more. Being there. Its not big changes, but the little ones in our daily lives that make all the difference. With little ways to love more, big things happen

  Yehuda Berg

  Love, Caring, Differences

  FaceBook post by Yehuda Berg from Oct 16, 2013

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• Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous... I define vulnerability as emotional risk, exposure, uncertainty. It fuels our daily lives.

  Brené Brown

  Emotional, Risk, Fuel

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• Transportation is the center of the world! It is the glue of our daily lives. When it goes well, we don't see it. When it goes wrong, it negatively colors our day, makes us feel angry and impotent, curtails our possibilities.

  Robin Chase

  Color, Glue, World

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• Oh, how daily life is. (Ah, que la vie est quotidienne.)

  Jules Laforgue

  Life, Life Is

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• There are two phases of enjoyment in journeying through an unknown country - the eager phase of wondering interest in every detail, and the relaxed phase when one feels no longer an observer of the exotic, but a participator in the rhythm of daily life.

  Dervla Murphy

  Country, Two, Details

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• Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.

  Beatrice Webb

  Running, Ego, Personal History

  Beatrice Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1979). “My Apprenticeship”, p.43, Cambridge University Press

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• If, as an actor, you allow yourself to be cocooned from the boring pin-pricks of day-to-day existence - like standing in a queue at the butcher's or any of the other dreary little events that we all have in our daily lives - you begin to lose your lifeline to what people are. And if you lose that, you eventually lose the ability to act.

  Glenda Jackson

  People, Actors, Littles

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• Helping others isn't a chore, it is one of the greatest gifts there is. I want to challenge the next generation of women to find a way to give back that inspires and fulfills them and weave it into their daily lives. If the next generation can learn that early on, we have a real chance to change the world.

  Liya Kebede

  Real, Helping Others, Giving

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• In order to succeed on the athletic field, it is necessary to succeed in daily life. Your spirit and your life must be perfectly trimmed for the chi to flow properly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Order

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• It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.

  Andre Gide

  Reality, Worry, Would Be

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