Everyday Quotes - Page 10

• Stories took twists and turns down fairy-tale paths or down very human everyday ones. You think you’re at the end of the book, and it’s only the end of a chapter.

  Deb Caletti

  Book, Thinking, Twists

  Deb Caletti (2013). “The Story of Us”, p.342, Simon and Schuster

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• In truth, there is enormous space in which to live our everyday lives.

  Pema Chodron

  Space, Everyday Life, Enormous

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.10, Shambhala Publications

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• They'll torture you for months before killing you if you run" Otis shrugged, as if this was an everyday occurrence.

  Heather Brewer

  Running, Months, Killing

  Heather Brewer (2011). “Twelfth Grade Kills #5: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”, Penguin

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• It was the ghost of rationality itself ... This is the ghost of normal everyday assumptions which declares that the ultimate purpose of life, which is to keep alive, is impossible, but that this is the ultimate purpose of life anyway, so that great minds struggle to cure diseases so that people may live longer, but only madmen ask why. One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose. That is what the ghost says.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Struggle, Order, People

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• The men and women, who desire to obtain seats in the celestial kingdom, will find that they must battle everyday.

  Brigham Young

  Men, Desire, Battle

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• Monty Python: A documentary series on everyday life in Great Britain.

  Frank Portman

  Python, Documentaries, Britain

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• He was the Grand Marshall of our Everyday Parade

  Jerry Spinelli

  Parades

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• We say 'forest' but this word is made of the unknown, the unfamiliar, the unencompassed. The earth. Clods of dirt. Pebbles. On a clear day you rest among ordinary, everyday things that have been familiar to you since childhood, grass, bushes, a dog (or a cat), a chair, but that changes when you realize that every object is an enormous army, an inexhaustible swarm.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Dog, Cat, Army

  Witold Gombrowicz (2011). “Cosmos: A Novel”, p.104, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Everyday is one less day.

  Tom Ford

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• That was the sort of everyday love I had to learn to contend with: if you grow up with it, it's hard to think you'll ever match it. I used to think it was difficult for children of folks who really loved each other, hard to get out from under that skin because sometimes it's just so comfortable you don't want to have to develop your own.

  Colum McCann

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

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• I was giving up. I would have given up - if a voice hadn't made itself heard in my heart. The voice said "I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare. I will beat the odds, as great as they are. I have survived so far, miraculously. Now I will turn miracle into routine. The amazing will be seen everyday. I will put in all the hard work necessary. Yes, so long as God is with me, I will not die. Amen.

  Yann Martel

  Giving Up, Hard Work, Heart

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• The city was bigger than its buildings, bigger than its inhabitants too. It had its own nuances. It accepted whatever came its way, the crime and the violence and the little shocks of good that crawled out from underneath the everyday.

  Colum McCann

  Cities, Littles, Way

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.214, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• There are apparently few limitations either of time or space on where the psyche might journey and only the customs inspector employed by our own inhibitions restricts what it might bring back when it reenters the home country of everyday consciousness.

  Tom Robbins

  Country, Home, Journey

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.194, Bantam

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• The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.

  Albert Camus

  Philosophical, Important, Killing Yourself

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• We see our sins reflected everywhere: in the pallor of our intimates’ faces, in the scratching of tree branches against windows, in the strange movements of everyday objects. These may be messages from God or tricks of the eye, but in neither case are we permitted to ignore them.

  Anna Godbersen

  Eye, Everyday Objects, Tree

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• Do something that scares you everyday.

  Melina Marchetta

  Scare, Saving Francesca

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.197, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It's not easy having a good marriage--but I don't want easy. Easy doesn't make you grow. Easy doesn't make you think. I thank God everyday that I am married to a man who makes me think. That's my definition of true love.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Men, Thinking, Make You Think

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• As we meandered, she said my name three times: "Stargirl?" "Yes?" "That was better than TV." "It was." "Stargirl?" "Yes?" "Does the sun do that everyday?" "Yes." "Stargirl?" "Yes?" "Everyday is sun day.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Names, Doe, Three

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• Mr. Freeman: You are getting better at this, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree,but it is an average, ordinary, everyday, boring tree. Breathe life into it. Make it bend - trees are flexible, so they don't snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch - perfect trees don't exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Average, Giving, Perfect

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.153, Macmillan

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• All women on earth-- and men, too for that matter-- hope for the kind of love that transforms us, raises us up out of the everyday, & gives us the courage to survive our little deaths: the heartache of unfulfilled dreams, of career and personal disappointments, of broken love affairs.

  Lisa See

  Love, Dream, Disappointment

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  I'm telling you, people. Everyday we wake up is another blessing. Follow your dreams and don't let anyone stop you. Never say never.

  Justin Bieber

  Inspirational, Dream, Blessing

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• Nay, you'll be ashamed of me everyday of your life," he answered; "and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it.

  Emily Bronte

  Ashamed, Know Me, Knows

  Emily Bronte (2015). “Wuthering Heights (Diversion Classics)”, p.359, Diversion Books

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• My sister had taught me to look at the world that way, as a place that glitters, as a place where the calls of the crickets and the crows and the wind are everyday occurrences that also happen to be magic.

  Cynthia Kadohata

  Life, Wind, Magic

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• You are the heroes. You are the heroes everyday.

  Miep Gies

  Hero

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