Everyday Life Quotes - Page 5

• There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  Country, Bravery, Everyday

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• Every moment of life brings an opportunity for being conscious of human feeling, in prosperity, in adversity, in all conditions. It costs very little; only a little thought is necessary. There is no greater religion than love. God is love; and the best form of love is to be conscientious regarding the feelings of those with whom we come in contact in everyday life.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Adversity, Opportunity, Love Is

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1962). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan volume 6: The Alchemy of Happiness”

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• You can deny all you want that there is etiquette, and a lot of people do in everyday life. But if you behave in a way that offends the people you're trying to deal with, they will stop dealing with you...There are plenty of people who say, 'We don't care about etiquette, but we can't stand the way so-and-so behaves, and we don't want him around!' Etiquette doesn't have the great sanctions that the law has. But the main sanction we do have is in not dealing with these people and isolating them because their behavior is unbearable.

  Judith Martin

  Law, People, Everyday

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• As far as extra dimensions are concerned, very tiny extra dimensions wouldn't be perceived in everyday life, just as atoms aren't: we see many atoms together but we don't see atoms individually.

  Edward Witten

  Teamwork, Everyday, Together

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• Really, most of us just focus on what's in front of us. We're too busy putting out the fires of everyday life.

  Aidan Quinn

  Fire, Focus, Everyday

  "HuffPost Interview: Aidan Quinn talks about Sarah’s Key". Interview with Marshall Fine, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 22, 2011.

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• More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Mean, Eugenics, Everyday

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

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• Some people had fathers who were bankers or farmers, my father made films, that's how I saw it. As for the movie stars, they were just around, some of them were friends, others weren't, it was all just a part of my everyday life.

  Anjelica Huston

  Stars, Father, People

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• I began writing for kids because I wanted to effect a change in American society. I continue in that spirit. By the time we reach adulthood, we are closed and set in our attitudes. The chances of a poet reaching us are very slim. But I can open a child's imagination, develop his appetite for poetry, and more importantly, show him that poetry is a natural part of everyday life. We all need someone to point out that the emperor is wearing no clothes. That's the poet's job.

  Arnold Adoff

  Jobs, Attitude, Children

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• The TV set, or Satanic family altar, has grown more elaborate since the early 50s, from the tiny, fuzzy screen to huge ‘entertainment centers’ covering entire walls with several TV monitors. What started as an innocent respite from everyday life has become in itself a replacement for real life for millions, a major religion of the masses.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Wall, Real, Everyday

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• Daily fervent prayers seeking forgiveness and special help and direction are essential to our lives and the nourishment of our testimonies. When we become hurried, repetitive, casual, or forgetful in our prayers, we tend to lose the closeness of the Spirit, which is so essential in the continual direction we need to successfully manage the challenges of our everyday lives. Family prayer every morning and night adds additional blessings and power to our individual prayers and to our testimonies.

  Donald L. Staheli

  Morning, Prayer, Night

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• On his daughter, Ava: She is a relief from all the stress in my life; everyday she does something new and it is so amazing.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Daughter, Mother, Stress

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• The part of my education that has had the deepest influence wasn't any particular essay or even a specific class, it was how I was able to apply everything I learned in the library to certain situations in my life. . . The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself.

  Gloria Estefan

  Class, People, Everyday

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• Our life is frittered away by detail Simplify, simplify.”  Or, as Plato wrote, “In order to seek one’s own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.

  Duane Elgin

  Plato, Order, Everyday

  Duane Elgin (2010). “Voluntary Simplicity Second Revised Edition: Toward a Way of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• The paintings are like prayers, relating to wishing for something beyond everyday life.

  Susan Rothenberg

  Prayer, Everyday, Wish

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• I can say that paintings are prayers, they have to do with anything that makes you wish for more that what everyday life provides.

  Susan Rothenberg

  Prayer, Everyday, Wish

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• Every day, we try to pretend that we haven't perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist; that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention to their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Magic Moments

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• There is...a tendency to think of the spiritual life as primarily introspective, divorced from the concerns of everyday life....Faith that does not translate into actions is no faith at all.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Godly, Thinking

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• The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit of sacrifice must become a part of everyday life.

  Pope John Paul II

  Sacrifice, Men, Discipline

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• All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot of Native American literature is stuck in one idea: sort of spiritual, environmentalist Indians. And I want to portray everyday lives. I think by doing that, by portraying the ordinary lives of Indians, perhaps people learn something new.

  Sherman Alexie

  Spiritual, Native American, Thinking

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• Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of Chess, always relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to call chess a typical inexact problem similar to those which people are always having to solve in everyday life.

  Garry Kasparov

  People, Everyday, Typical

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• The witness of the Holy Ghost is even more compelling than the witness of sight. As members of the Church, we become witnesses of the Savior and the truthfulness of this work not only in word but also in keeping our covenants and in how we treat others and in how we live our everyday lives.

  Loren C. Dunn

  Sight, Everyday, Church

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• I assure you, my children, that when a Christian carries out with love the most insignificant everyday action, that action overflows with the transcendence of God. That is why I have told you so often, and hammered away at it, that the Christian vocation consists in making heroic verse out of the prose of each day. Heaven and earth seem to merge, my children, on the horizon. But where they really meet is in your hearts, when you sanctify your everyday lives.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Faith, Christian, Children

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• To some extent, this urge to break out of the ordinary is present in every generation. Part of being young is desiring something beyond everyday life and a secure job, a yearning for something really truly greater. Is this simply an empty dream that fades away as we become older? No! Men and women were created for something great, for infinity. Nothing else will ever be enough.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Dream, Jobs

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• To fly! to live as airmen live! Like them to ride the skyways from horizon to horizon, across rivers and forests! To free oneself from the petty disputes of everyday life, to be active, to feel the blood renewed in one's vein - ah! that is life. . . . Life in finer and simpler. My will is freer. I appreciate everything more, sunlight and shade, work and my friends. The sky is vast. I breathe deep gulps of the fine clear air of the heights. I feel myself to have achieved a higher state of physical strength and a clearer brain. I am living in the third dimension!

  Henri Mignet

  Air, Blood, Sky

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• Stories were primarily verbal to begin with. Before there were cave paintings, stories were told over generations. We tell each other thousands of stories in the course of everyday life.

  David Massengill

  Writing, Everyday, Generations

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