Quotes on Everyday

We all admire great accomplishments in the sciences, arts, and humanities - but we rarely acknowledge how much we achieve in the course of our everyday lives.

These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing - it was not a substance, it was not a presence, it was no more than an absence of light.

Only Esmeralda was not weeping. Instead she wore that wooden look that whites mistake for churlishenss or indifference. Woodrew knew it was neither. It was familiarity. This how real life is constituted, it said. This is grief and hatred and people hacked to death. This is the everyday we have known since we were born and you Wazungu have not.

Everyday God gives us a moment in which it is possible to change everything that makes us unhappy.

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.

Bravery shows up in everyday life when people have the courage to live their truth, their vision and their dreams.

Cities are beautiful because they are created slowly; they are made by time. A city is born from a tangle of monuments and infrastructures , culture and market, national history and everyday stories. It takes 500 years to create a city, 50 to create a neighborhood.

I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can.

This love for everyday things, _x000D_ part natural from the wide eye of Infancy, _x000D_ part a literary calculation

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies.

If I wanted to play the violin, I had to work. Because anything that one wants to do really, and one loves doing, one must do everyday. It should be as easy to the artist and as natural as flying is to a bird. And you can’t imagine a bird saying well, I’m tired today, I’m not going to fly!

I go to the studio everyday because one day I may go and the Angel will be there. What if I don't go and the Angel comes?

I thank the earth and the sky everyday for the opportunities I’ve had.

If we can manage to refrain from harming others in our everyday actions and words, we can start to give more serious attention to actively doing good, and this can be a source of great joy and inner confidence. We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need.

The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.

The Tao never does anything, yet through it all things are done. If powerful men and women could venter themselves in it, the whole world would be transformed by itself, in its natural rhythms. People would be content with their simple, everyday lives, in harmony, and free of desire. When there is no desire, all things are at peace.

Everyday is a new life to a wise man.

Keep your eyes out for #‎ magical moments, they're everywhere! Live with passion today and everyday!

Much of my crying is for joy and wonder rather than for pain. A trumpet's wailing, a wind's warm breath, the chink of a bell on an errant lamb, the smoke from a candle just spent, first light, twilight, firelight. Everyday beauty. I cry for how life intoxicates. And maybe just a little for how swiftly it runs.