Everyday Life Quotes - Page 21

• From their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives, they continually cope with frustrations as best they can. And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Mean, Frustration

  Maurice Sendak's acceptance speech upon being awarded the Caldecott Medal for "Where the Wild Things Are" (1964), as quoted in "Newbery and Caldecott Medal Books: 1956-65" edited by Lee Kingman, 1965.

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• Do you really think you'd win a PR war against a bunch of committed librarians?' He thought about this, but he knew I was right. The libraries were a treasured institution and so central to everyday life that government and commerce rarely did anything that might upset them.Some say they were more powerful than the military, or, if not, they were certainly quieter. As they say: Don't mess with librarians. Only they use a stronger word than 'mess'.

  Jasper Fforde

  Powerful, Military, War

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• In strategy your spiritual bearing must not be any different from normal. Both in fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Life, Spiritual, Courage

  Miyamoto Musashi (2013). “The Book of Five Rings - The Bestselling, Classic Samurai Guide to Strategy”, p.20, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I think it's important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy.

  Paula Cole

  Thinking, Everyday, Important

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• Happiness, it seems to me, consists of two things: first, in being where you belong, and second -- and best -- in comfortably going through everyday life, that is, having had a good night's sleep and not being hurt by new shoes.

  Theodor Fontane

  Happiness, Good Night, Hurt

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• The asymmetry of time, the arrow that points from past to future, plays an unmistakable role in our everyday lives: it accounts for why we cannot turn an omelet into an egg, why ice cubes never spontaneously unmelt in a glass of water, and why we remember the past but not the future. And the origin of the asymmetry we experience can be traced all the way back to the orderliness of the universe near the big bang. Every time you break an egg, you are doing observational cosmology.

  Sean M. Carroll

  Time, Past, Arrows

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• John Smith: Mankind doesn't need warfare and bloodshed to prove itself. Everyday life can provide honour and valour. Let's hope that from now on this country can find its heroes in smaller places. In the most ordinary of deeds.

  Paul Cornell

  Country, Peace, Hero

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• The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God. Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father.

  John Ortberg

  Jesus, Prayer, Father

  John Ortberg (2009). “The Me I Want to Be”, p.134, Harper Collins

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• Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life. Some people drink, do drugs, or do worse to escape, and they hurt themselves in the process. Some people listen to music, mine included, and feel better.

  Yanni

  Life, Motivational, Music

  Yanni (2003). “Yanni in Words”

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• The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Everyday, Fit

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• One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• You know from past experiences that whenever you have been driven to the wall, or thought you were, you have extricated yourself in a way which you never would have dreamed possible had you not been put to the test. The trouble is that in your everyday life you don't go deep enough to tap the divine mind within you.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Wall, Past, Everyday

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• No matter how remote we feel we are from the oceans, every act each one of us takes in our everyday lives affects our planet's water cycle and in return affects us.

  Fabien Cousteau

  Ocean, Sea, Water

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• If my dreams can happen to me, your dreams can happen to you. Champions are not made on the track or field; champions are made by the things you accomplish and the way you use your abilities in everyday life situations.

  Bob Beamon

  Softball, Sports, Dream

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• When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: Ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very process of life begins to nourish your soul.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Spiritual, Godly, Soul

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• I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear. Everyday life. Someone may be talking to me and I may take it from that.

  Desmond Dekker

  Song, Writing, Talking

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

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• The spirit of karate practice and the elements of training are applicable to each and every aspect of our daily lives.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Thinking, Everyday, Training

  "Karate-dō Nyūmon: The Master Introductory Text".

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• You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralising invention of man, something apart from real life, and which must be cautiously guarded and kept separate from everyday existence. But science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated. Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience and experiment.

  Rosalind Franklin

  Real, Science, Men

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• It isn't that a warrior learns shamanism as time goes by; rather, what he learns as time goes by is to save energy. This energy will enable him to handle some of the energy fields which are ordinarily inaccessible to him. Shamanism is a state of awareness, the ability to use energy fields that are not employed in perceiving the everyday-life world that we know.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Warrior, Everyday, Energy

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• Everyday life surrounds us in a swirling chaos, and it's easy to fall into the grip of our ego's fears and confusion. Remind yourself each day of your intentions and spiritual purpose. Meditate, find your center, look closely at yourself, and don't let go of your intention until it feels centered inside yourself.

  Deepak Chopra

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Fall

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• Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.

  Donald Knuth

  Everyday, Life Is Like, Programming

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• The Tipping Point is the biography of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the emergence of fashion trends, the ebb and flow of crime waves, or, for that matter, the transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomena of word of mouth, or any number of the other mysterious changes that mark everyday life is to think of them as epidemics. Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Fashion, Teenage, Book

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• Zazen practice and everyday activity are one thing. We call zazen everyday life, and everyday life zazen.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Practice, Everyday, Activity

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.109, Shambhala Publications

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• Designers stand between revolutions and everyday life. They’re able to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and society and convert those changes into objects and ideas that people can understand.

  Paola Antonelli

  Technology, Ideas, People

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• In all forms of strategy, it is necessary to maintain the combat stance in everyday life and to make your everyday stance your combat stance.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Everyday, Strategy, Form

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.18, Bottom of the Hill

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