Daily Life Quotes

• The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

  William Morris

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.94, Cambridge University Press

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• When we change our daily lives - the way we think, speak and act - we change the world.

  Nhat Hanh

  Change, Thinking, Acting

  Thich Nhat Hanh (1993). “Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change”, p.132, Parallax Press

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• The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Dust, Soul

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• meditation is a way of developing clarity, which allows us to see the precision of daily life situations as well as our thought process so that we can relate with both of them fully and completely.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Rose, Meditation, Way

  Chogyam Trungpa (2011). “Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness”, p.19, Shambhala Publications

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• Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.24, St. Martin's Press

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• By thinking about your goals every morning, many times during the day, and every night, you begin moving toward it, and bringing it toward you.

  Bob Proctor

  Inspirational, Change, Success

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 20, 2013

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• If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.

  Nhat Hanh

  Moments, Abandon, Ifs

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• Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Faithful, Great Things, Ifs

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.67, SCM Press

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• The quality of everything we do: our physical actions, our verbal actions, and even our mental actions, depends on our motivation. That's why it's important for us to examine our motivation in our day to day life. If we cultivate respect for others and our motivation is sincere, if we develop a genuine concern for others’ well-being, then all our actions will be positive.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

  Khalil Gibran

  Religion, Temples, Life Is

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational, Letting Go, Crazy

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• We cannot be part-time Christians! We should seek to live our faith at every moment of every day.

  Pope Francis

  God, Faith, Christian

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• Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

  C. S. Lewis

  Respect, Book, Healing

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• Most people sabotage themselves because they aren't mindful in the moment. Let your daily actions be governed by your goals & dreams. Whenever you are making an important decision first ask if it gets you closer to your goals or farther away. If the answer is closer, pull the trigger. If it's farther away make a different choice. Conscious choice making is a critical step in making your dreams a reality.

  Jillian Michaels

  Motivational, Dream, Reality

  FaceBook post by Jillian Michaels from Mar 27, 2011

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• Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Book, Life Is

  "Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann".

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• The first person you have to inspire every day is yourself. Running will do that.

  Marc Parent

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Sports

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• If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Riches, Poverty, Blame

  "Letters to a Young Poet". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke. Letter One (February 17, 1903), the 1993 translation by M. D. Herter Norton, 1929.

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• There are actually two approaches to reside your daily life. One is as if absolutely nothing is really a miracle. The other is as if every little thing is a wonder

  Albert Einstein

  Two, Miracle, Littles

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• For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner. It is not a mechanical routine, but something essential to my daily life. I go to the piano, and play two preludes and fugues of Bach. I cannot think of doing otherwise. It is a sort of benediction on the house. But that is not its only meaning for me. It is a rediscovery of the world of which I have the joy of being a part. It fills me with awareness of the wonder of life, with a feeling of the incredible marvel of being a human being.

  Pablo Casals

  Past, Thinking, Years

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• Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Flower, Humble, Eye

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.645, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Pieces, Improvement, Fortune

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• From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other.

  Albert Einstein

  Purpose, Sake, My Sympathy

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• At first an ordeal and then an accomplishment, the daily run becomes a staple, like bread, or wine, a fine marriage, or air. It is also a free pass to friendship.

  Benjamin Cheever

  Inspirational, Friendship, Marriage

  Benjamin Cheever (2007). “Strides: Running Through History with an Unlikely Athlete”, p.16, Rodale

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• To pray is to let God into our lives. He knocks and seeks admittance, not only in the solemn hours of secret prayer. He knocks in the midst of your daily work, your daily struggles, your daily grind. That is when you need Him most.

  Ole Hallesby

  God, Letting Go, Religious

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• Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.

  Franz Kafka

  Life, Sleep, Novelists

  Franz Kafka (1971). “1910-1913. Tr. by Joseph Kresh”

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