Quotes of: Everyday-life Keyword

The falling apart of a man's life should make more noise. It should startle passesrby with its Sturm and Drang. It ought to sound like the Parthenon crashing down. Not this ordinary, everyday kind of quiet...He closed his eyes...And still it was quie...

Angel Falls

In normal everyday usage, "I" embodies the primordial error, a misperception of who you are, an illusory sense of identity. This is the ego. The illusory sense of self is what Albert Einstein, who had deep insights not only into the reality of space ...

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Anxiety kicked in. I lacked people skills all my life. Any normal human interaction was foreign to me. I don’t know what to say, to not look like a major dork or something. I am weird like that. Always were. The dead – that’s a whole other worl...

The Death's Daughter

If humanism were right in declaring that man is born to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since his body is doomed to die, his task on earth evidently must be of a more spiritual nature. It cannot unrestrained enjoyment of everyday life. It cann...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

One practical way to do this is to look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them of just your thought about them. Sometimes our thoughts act like dream glasses. When we have them on, we see dream children, dream husband, dream w...

Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

I vow to ingest only items that preserve well-being, peace, and joy in my body and my consciousness... Practicing a diet is the essence of this precept. Wars and bombs are the products of our consciousness individually and collectively. Our collectiv...

For a Future to Be Possible: Buddhist Ethics for Everyday Life

it seems that once again people engage in a search for evidence that is biased toward confirmation. Asked to assess the similarity of two entities, people pay more attention to the ways in which they are similar than to the ways in which they differ....

How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life

Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. We’re so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past are no longer in orbit around ou...

Kafka on the Shore

Food is a product of supply and demand, so try to figure out where the supplies are fresh, the suppliers are creative, and the demanders are informed.

An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies

I believe it's a cook's moral obligation to add more butter given the chance.

Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking

In this room I grew. So many lessons I learned Opportunities I gained Criticisms I gracefully endured In this room, I made my mark".

Trails to the Stream: Poetry and Inspiration for Everyday Living

Alas! Alas! When in the skies there are no limits only the forceful perseverance of the mind stripping through clouds and creating the ever so beautiful shades of abundant success.

Trails to the Stream: Poetry and Inspiration for Everyday Living

A man [Joyce] whose earliest stories appeared next to the manure prices in the Irish Homestead knew that columns of prose, like columns of shit, could both recultivate the earth.

Ulysses And Us: The Art Of Everyday Living

The educated don't get that way by memorizing facts; they get that way by respecting them.

The Well Spoken Thesaurus: The Most Powerful Ways To Say Everyday Words And Phrases

Your true home is in the here and the now.

Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh: 365 days of practical, powerful teachings from the beloved Zen teacher

All possibilities I will attempt And as I am here now, Knowing what I know now, I have faith in myself That I will succeed And I will succeed. And I will succeed.

Trails to the Stream: Poetry and Inspiration for Everyday Living

Counting one thousand gifts means counting the hard things — otherwise I’ve miscounted.

One Thousand Gifts Devotional: Reflections on Finding Everyday Grace

Your mental make-ups are the contents of your everyday thinking; they carry a charge that can either transform, reform or destroy you. Watch your thoughts, they determine your life!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Being deeply contented with God in my everyday life is a focused attitude. It is always available. It means practicing letting go of my obsession with how I'm doing. It means training myself to learn to actually be present with people, and seeking to...

John Ortberg

There's now, for the first time, a huge gulf between the artefacts of our everyday life and what even a single expert, let alone the average child, can comprehend. The gadgets that now pervade young people's lives, iPhones and suchlike, are baffling ...

Martin Rees

My kids are my No. 1 priority. They're the light in my everyday life. The sunshine. The miracle. Those eyes. Those smiles. At the same time, I have an extended, amazing family that is my audience. All these people have been with me for such a long ti...

Thalia