Everyday Life Quotes - Page 22

• The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Delicate Things, People, Everyday

  Biographical, www.nobelprize.org. 1998.

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• History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, Differences, Judging

  Twitter post from Nov 20, 2015

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• Moreover, metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason, most people think they can get along perfectly well without metaphor. We have found, on the contrary, that metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.

  George Lakoff

  Thinking, People, Monday Morning

  George Lakoff, Mark Johnson (2008). “Metaphors We Live By”, p.3, University of Chicago Press

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• The deepest fear we have, 'the fear beneath all fears,' is the fear of not measuring up, the fear of judgment. It's this fear that creates the stress and depression of everyday life.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Stress, Everyday, Judgment

  Tullian Tchividjian, Nick Lannon (2015). “It Is Finished: 365 Days of Good News”, David C Cook

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The Lilly girl is always full of surprises. She lives everyday like it's a celebration, never has a dull moment, and makes every hour a happy hour.

  Lilly Pulitzer

  Girl, Everyday, Dull

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• In the times in which we live it is far too restricting to say that art can only be found in art galleries and not touch people's everyday lives. I want to use any means that are necessary to communicate with people what I feel about things. There are no rules. And if there are rules, then you may as well break them.

  Ken Done

  Art, Mean, People

  Ken Done (1996). “Ken Done: Paintings and Drawings, 1975-1987”, Craftsman House (AU)

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• I like stories that are not normal, everyday lives. I don't personally seek them out, but they find me.

  Katherine Moennig

  Everyday, Stories, Normal

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• Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.

  Charles Bukowski

  Drinking, Beer, Emotional

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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• Bravery shows up in everyday life when people have the courage to live their truth, their vision and their dreams.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Dream, People, Bravery

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• Have a policy of pre-emptive forgiveness. Refuse to get offended by petty things. Make a decision early on to cut the other person some slack in everyday life. Then you can take comfort in knowing they'll do it for you, as well. Accepting each other, flaws and all, is what love is all about.

  Gaelen Foley

  Cutting, Love Is, Knowing

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• I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.

  Ed Westwick

  Family, Jobs, People

  "Ed Westwick: 'I can be a real bitch - people know when to stay away'". Interview with Mirror.co.uk, www.mirror.co.uk. May 3, 2009.

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• As your awareness of the riches available to you in your everyday life grows, you are on the way to becoming the laughing Buddha. Life is joyous. Life is Light. Life is happy. You are awake at last.

  Susan Jeffers

  Happiness, Law Of Attraction, Light Life

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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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• Yoga does not remove us from the reality or responsibilities of everyday life but rather places our feet firmly and resolutely in the practical ground of experience. We don't transcend our lives; we return to the life we left behind in the hopes of something better.

  Donna Farhi

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• While you are continuing this practice, week after week, year after year, your experience will become deeper and deeper, and your experience will cover everything you do in your everyday life. The most important thing is to forget all gain ing ideas, all dualistic ideas. In other words, just practice zazen in a certain posture. Do not think about anything. Just remain on your cushion without expecting anything. Then eventually you will resume your own true nature. That is to say, your own true nature resumes itself.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Thinking, Years, Practice

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.34, Shambhala Publications

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• Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Life, Sympathy, Peace

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• To those who cite the first amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and everyday life, may I just say: The first amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people of this country from religious values; it was written to protect religious values from government tyranny.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Religious, Government

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• We must realize that the ministries and gifts of the Spirit are for everyday life, not just meetings.

  Rick Joyner

  Gifts Of The Spirit, Everyday, Ministry

  FaceBook post by Rick Joyner from Feb 20, 2015

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• Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.

  Charles Bukowski

  Suicide, Wall, Drinking

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