Everyday Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect of the dead person is removed from the flux of the everyday, which, of course, is where we miss him most. The quarantine around death makes it feel unlucky and wrong--a freakish incursion--and the dead, thus quarantined, come to seem more dead than they already are.... Borrowing from the dead is a way of keeping them engaged in life's daily transactions--in other words, alive.

  Jennifer Egan

  Missing, Alive, Quarantine

  "Dealing with the Dead" by Jennifer Egan, www.newyorker.com. October 11, 2010.

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• He caught her as if he were used to catching fainting girls, as if he did it everyday.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Used, Fainting

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Bones”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• Are you living everyday so that even if the end were to come you’d have to regrets?

  Ai Yazawa

  Regret, Ends, Ifs

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• I'm learning that you have to make time for what's important. You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Fighting, Important, Pieces

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15”, p.431, Penguin

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• I remember the first time I saw you. Your hair was in two braids instead of one. And I remember when you... you sang in the music assembly and the teacher said... "Who knows The Valley Song?" and your hand shot straight up. After that, I... I watched you going home every day...

  Suzanne Collins

  Song, Teacher, Home

  "The Hunger Games". m.imdb.com. 2012.

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• With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Father, Ordinary, Details

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.312, Faber & Faber

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• I would say for everyday I build buildings or houses like a bricklayer with canvas and paint.

  Georg Baselitz

  House, Canvas, Building

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• For a real knight, rescuing maidens would be an everyday event." ... "Perhaps a true knight saves himself for the right maiden

  Karen Hawkins

  Real, Knights, Events

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• Everyday was another day spent waiting.  Every night was another night when she might meet someone who would  recognize her true worth.

  Paulo Coelho

  Night, Waiting, Might

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• He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself in order to preserve himself in the condition of a work of art, for he wanted to make this experience a masterpiece of experience which absolutely transcended the everyday. And this would annihilate the effects of the cruel drug, boredom, to which he was addicted although, perhaps, the element of boredom which is implicit in an affair so isolated from the real world was its principle appeal for him.

  Angela Carter

  Art, Real, Order

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• Nothing is more important than life. Nothing. You realise the simplicity of that point only when you confront death everyday.

  Amish Tripathi

  Simplicity, Important, Realising

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