Mundane Quotes - Page 4

• Always live your life with one dream to fulfill. No matter how many of your dreams you have realized in the past, always have a dream to go. Because when you stop dreaming, life becomes a mundane existence.

  Sara Henderson

  Dream, Past, Live Your Life

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• Much of life appears mundane at the time. Yet in God's providence every moment includes significant details arranged by His divine hand.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Hands, Details, Moments

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• If our children are going to walk away from Christ, we need to raise them in such a way that they understand that to walk away from Jesus is to walk away from a life of faith, risk and adventure and to choose a life that boring, mundane and ordinary

  Erwin McManus

  Jesus, Children, Adventure

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• Prayer is such an ordinary, everyday, mundane thing. Certainly, people who pray are no more saints than the rest of us. Rather, they are people who want to share a life with God, to love and be loved, to speak and to listen, to work and to be at rest in the presence of God.

  Roberta Bondi

  Prayer, People, Everyday

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• Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness.

  Sigmund Freud

  Misery, Unhappiness, Hysterical

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• There tends to be a sort of mundane quality to what I select - things from around the house, around the studio. I'm not ashamed of the craft shop - the art supply store - and I don't need my work to be anti-art store, but I also believe in using things that are just sort of around - it makes sense to me.

  Laura Owens

  Art, Believe, House

  Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.

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• Most incredible, however, are the times we know Christ is with us in the midst of our daily, routine lives. In the middle of cleaning the house or driving somewhere in the pick-up, He stops us. . . in our tracks and makes His presence known. Often it's in the middle of the most mundane task that He lets us know He is there with us. We realize, then, that there can be no "ordinary" moments for people who live their lives with Jesus.

  Michael Card

  Jesus, Routine Life, People

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• Katherine Heiny's work does something magical: elevates the mundane so that it has the stakes of a mystery novel, gives women's interior lives the gravity they so richly deserve -- and makes you laugh along the way.

  Lena Dunham

  Giving, Laughing, Doe

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• I fell in love with scent when I was a small boy.
  I was intrigued by how each bottle on my mother's dressing table
  gave such a different scent-each like a genie waving its spell,
  transporting us away from the mundane to worlds full of fantasy.

  Roja Dove

  Mother, Boys, Different

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• The Library didn't only contain magical books, the ones which are chained to their shelves and are very dangerous. It also contained perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane ink. It would be a mistake to think that they weren't also dangerous, just because reading them didn't make fireworks go off in the sky. Reading them sometimes did the more dangeous trick of making fireworks go off in the privacy of the reader's brain.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mistake, Book, Reading

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)”, p.152, Random House

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• When I was a child . . . Only virtue was prized, virtue at the expense of intellect, health, happiness, and every mundane good.

  Bertrand Russell

  Children, Virtue, Intellect

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.120, Routledge

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• Intuition is a powerful tool that can heal the painful split we all feel between our earthly, mundane selves and our divine, eternal selves. When we realize that our spiritual knowledge is in us right now, and always has been, we become filled with light, light-hearted, and enlightened.

  Penney Peirce

  Spiritual, Powerful, Light

  Penney Peirce (2009). “The Intuitive Way: The Definitive Guide to Increasing Your Awareness”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• It's hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Writing, Community, Mediocre

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• The comic edge of Ghostbusters will always be the same. It's still treating the supernatural with a totally mundane sensibility. In the world of ghostbusting, there are certain givens. You're always going to have some new invented technology, some pseudo-science that sounds right because we drop enough familiar terms from physics and engineering, and pseudo-methodology, something that people will think they may have read something about before.

  Harold Ramis

  Thinking, Technology, Engineering

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, really know on a cellular level that you're going to go, and that this moment, right now, is life. Life isn't what happens to you in 20 years. This moment, right now, is your life.

  Alan Ball

  Years, Details, Levels

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• What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Next Week, Afternoon

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• I'm out doing my deal, I'm turning people on. What's wrong with taking people away from their everyday mundane situation and having a good, fun night for an hour and a half at a rock'n'roll scene?

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Fun, Night, Rocks

  Source: jontrott.com

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• To practice nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Practice, Matter, Knows

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.88, Hackett Publishing

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• My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Superiors, Nonviolence

  Gandhi (Mahatma) (1960). “Wit and wisdom of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• The mundane use of the Gayatri, its repetition for healing the sick, illustrates the meaning we have given to prayer.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Healing, Sick

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Fasting in Satyagraha: Its Use and Abuse”

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• 'Physician, heal thyself' is more true in matters religious than mundane.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Religion, Physicians

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.186, Tara Publishing

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• Sometimes when my fans come up to me, they think it's going to be entertaining, like I'm going to tell jokes or do bits, and then instead of that I end up talking about really mundane things with my fans, and then they're kind of like, "This is boring. I want to go talk to somebody else." I think I bore my fans to death by over-talking to them.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Thinking, Talking, Fans

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Nobody beats a bunch of journalists for inflating their rather mundane straightforward chores with a lot more melodrama and self-importance than the job should be asked to contain.

  Larry King

  Jobs, Self, Journalism

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• Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye.

  Pliny the Younger

  Lying, Eye, Sea

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• Every occupation has its own honor before God. Ordinary work is a divine vocation or calling. In our daily work no matter how important or mundane we serve God by serving the neighbor and we also participate in God's on-going providence for the human race.

  Martin Luther

  Race, Honor, Important

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