Mundane Quotes - Page 13

• Sometimes it was easier to swim with the current rather than fight against it. There was always a shallow pool somewhere ahead. Memories are like battles, and battles can go one way or the other. You can stand and fight, no matter what pains run from you wounds; or you can turn tail and run, knowing then that the enemy will follow and without mercy hunt you down. We had so many dreams as children. Where do they all 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

  Running, Dream, Children

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• Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.

  Donald Miller

  Meaningful, Cheating, Telling The Truth

  Twitter post from Dec 08, 2015

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• Fling yourself at life and let yourself feel what you do feel upon the very tick of the second; snatch the images of life that fly through the brain. If you are very frank with yourself and don't mind how ridiculous anything that comes to you may seem, you will have a chance of capturing the symbols of your direct reactions. Thus, you will, perhaps, find yourself reaching a heightened sense of awareness completely outside the realm of mundane experience.

  Mina Loy

  Brain, Finding Yourself, Mind

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• When the horror recedes and the world resumes its normal shape, you cannot forget it. You have seen what is really there, the empty horror that exists when the consoling illusion of our mundane experience is stripped away, so you can never respond to the world in quite the same way again.

  Karen Armstrong

  Fear, World, Shapes

  Karen Armstrong (2010). “The Spiral Staircase”, p.78, Vintage Canada

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• People are in the habit of classifying life’s activities into those which are mundane and those which are religious. Remember, though, only those things done for the sake of Allah are the ‘religious’ things. Everything that is done for other than Allah – however ‘religious’ it may seem – is a worldly act… If he earns thousands of pounds to support his family and to spend for the cause of Allah, seeking only Allah’s pleasure, it is a highly spiritual act.

  Khurram Murad

  Spiritual, Religious, People

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• To be bigoted & argue with others, is to subject one's essence of mind to the bitterness of mundane existence.

  Huineng

  Essence, Mind, Bitterness

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• The cost of discipleship is to live the life God has given us, serving in mundane ways the people he's put in our path.

  Mark Galli

  Live Life, People, Cost

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• We massively exaggerate the exotic risks we can least control and massively undervalue the mundane risks we can control.

  David L. Katz

  Ebola, Risk, Exotic

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• Don't think about how your characters sound, but how they see. Watch the world through their eyes - study the extraordinary and the mundane through their particular perspective. Walk around the block with them, stroll the rooms they live in, figure out what objects on the cluttered dining room table they would inevitably stare at the longest, and then learn why.

  Dinaw Mengestu

  Block, Writing, Character

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• I hated the summer jobs I had when I was a teenager. They were so mundane and repetitious, they deadened my soul. On the bright side, it was good training for this job.

  Craig Ferguson

  Summer, Jobs, Teenager

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• Data in our psychic program is often nonlinear, nonhierarchical, archaic, alive, and teeming with paradox. Simply booting up is a challenge, if not for no other reason than that most of us find acknowledging the unknowable and monitoring its intrusions upon the familiar and mundane more than a little embarrassing.

  Tom Robbins

  Psychics, Data, Challenges

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• Some people who experience a religious conversion seem to undergo a personality change. They can be quite congenial and easygoing when talking about mundane things, but when they start talking about their faith, their demeanor changes. Their tone of voice modifies, their smile becomes tense and they become defensive when questioned about their evidence for belief. It becomes difficult to have a friendly conversation with them.

  Darrel Ray

  Religious, Talking, Voice

  "The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture". Book by Darrel Ray, 2009.

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• How strange it was that a dream, once realized, could quickly turn mundane.

  Maggie Shipstead

  Dream, Strange, Turns

  Maggie Shipstead (2014). “Astonish Me: A novel”, p.102, Vintage

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• Try to pick a profession in which you enjoy even the most mundane, tedious parts. Then you will always be happy

  Will Shortz

  Trying, Enjoy, Always Be Happy

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• In India even the most mundane inquiries have a habit of ending this way. There may be two answers, there may be five, a dozen or a hundred; the only thing that is certain is that all will be different.

  Eric Newby

  Two, May, Way

  Eric Newby (1966). “Slowly Down the Ganges”

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• Even if you look at the 'Paranormal Activity' movies, at the end of the movie things get really crazy and nutty, but they all start in a very mundane situation that people can relate to, and that's also to some degree what we tried to do in 'Chernobyl Diaries.

  Oren Peli

  Crazy, People, Degrees

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• There simply aren't any grand moments in life, and we surely don't live in those moments. No, we live in the utterly mundane. We exist in the bathrooms, bedrooms, living rooms, and hallways of life. This is where the character of our life is set. This is where we live the life of faith.

  Paul David Tripp

  Live Life, Character, Rooms

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• Your non attachment to the mundane is your charm. Your attachment to the divine is your beauty.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Attachment, Divine, Charm

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (2014). “Celebrating Silence”, p.10, Arktos

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• Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the needs and activities of our mundane lives. But few would deny that there is another dimension of human existence which transcends the mundane: call it the soul, the spirit: it is that part of the human frame which sees the shimmer of the numinous.

  Julian Burnside

  Communication, Vocabulary, Media

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• When you see something or experience something extraordinary, you can't go back to normal... I think that that's the way I see the supernatural-as happening in mundane circumstances or to people who are unprepared.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Thinking, People, Way

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• When I'm riding my bicycle I feel like a Buddhist who is happy just to enjoy his mundane existence

  Robin Williams

  Buddhist, Riding, Existence

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• A passionately lived life is not always comfortable. Going for it involves being open to all of life - the joys, the sorrows, the mundane as well and the magic, the splendid victories, the most abject defeats. You might even stop closing your eyes during the scary parts of the movie.

  Nicholas Lore

  Eye, Joy, Scary

  "The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success". Book by Nicholas Lore, The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success.

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• It is vital that we serve each other in the kingdom. . . . So often, our acts of service consist of simple encouragement or of giving . . . help with mundane tasks, but what glorious consequences can flow . . . from small but deliberate deeds!

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Encouragement, Simple, Giving

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• Alas, this mundane realm is never as fun as the one inside our minds. But we can endeavor to make it so.

  Larry Atchley Jr.

  Fun, Mind, Endeavor

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• Let us strive for personal, practical integrity in every endeavor, regardless of how mundane or inconsequential it may seem.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Integrity, May, Strive

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