Everyday Quotes - Page 9

• A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

  Alan Watts

  Education, Learning, Buddhism

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• What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion, everyday acts of compassion. In South Africa they have a phrase called ubuntu. Ubuntu comes out of a philosophy that says, the only way for me to be human is for you to reflect my humanity back at me.

  Chris Abani

  Philosophy, Compassion, Simple

  "On humanity". Ted Talks, www.ted.com. February, 2008.

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• How far I've come! I'm the same girl and yet not the same. I wonder if it's always like that? Folks keep growing from one person into another all their lives, and life is just a lot of everyday adventures. Well, whatever life is, I like it.

  Carol Ryrie Brink

  Girl, Adventure, Growing

  Carol Ryrie Brink (2012). “Caddie Woodlawn”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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• to design means forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know, patiently to take apart the mechanisms behind our reflexes and to acknowledge the mystery and stupefying complexity of everyday gestures like switching off a light of turning on a tap

  Alain de Botton

  Believe, Mean, Light

  Alain de Botton (2007). “The Architecture of Happiness”, p.121, Penguin UK

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• Life is made up of meetings and partings. People come into your life everyday, you say good morning, you say good evening, some stay for a few minutes, some stay for a few months, some a year, others a whole lifetime. No matter who it is, you meet and then you part. I'm so glad I met you Elizabeth Egan; I'll thank my lucky stars for that. I think I wished for you all of my life" He whispered. "But now it is time for us to part.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Morning, Stars, Thinking

  Cecelia Ahern (2007). “If You Could See Me Now”, Hyperion

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• Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.

  Freya Stark

  Art, Travel, Journey

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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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 meet new Walt Whitmans everyday. There are a dozen of them afloat. I don't know which Walt Whitman I am.

  Walt Whitman

  Dozen, Walt, Knows

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• Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world.

  Pema Chodron

  Warrior, Inspire, Ordinary

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.85, Shambhala Publications

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• Love is a choice you make everyday.

  Gary Chapman

  Positivity, Love Is, Choices

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• Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who has enough self-control to stand firm at the moment when the other person is in a temper, wins in the end. It is not he who has spoken a hundred words aloud who has won; it is he who has perhaps spoken only one word.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Winning, Self, Stupidity

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• We had so many dreams as children. Where do they go when we grow? Are they swallowed up by the mundane things of everyday life? Or do we lose them, leave them behind us in the dust, for new children to find and take up?

  Helen Hollick

  Dream, Children, Growing Up

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• Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Sitting Still, Feelings, Desire

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• love only variously everyday The meaning of love

  Mother Teresa

  Meaning Of Love

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• I remembered something somebody had once said to me. It's okay. Everyday is freshly ground.

  Neil Gaiman

  Said, Okay, Remembered

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Fragile Things”, p.87, Hachette UK

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• It was a strange combination to absorb - the everyday concerns of the town doctor stuck in the middle of a discussion of his early days in seventeenth-century London.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Doctors, London, Towns

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• Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment for any book.

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Compliment, Librarian

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• I'll think about you everyday. Part of me is scared that there'll come a time when you don't feel the same way, that you'll somehow forget about what we shared, so this is what I want to do forever.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Thinking, Forever, Want

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• The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  People, Tasks, Chance

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• Sisters are made by living everyday with each other and wearing each other down until the rough spots are smooth. They're made by sharing secrets you'd never tell mom, and out of doing things for each other just because you feel like it, not because you have to. I guess you could say sisters are 'grown,' not manufactured, in a very special place called a family.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Mom, Secret, Special

  Lurlene McDaniel (2012). “The End of Forever”, p.136, Laurel Leaf

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