Mundane Quotes

• This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and the endlessly repeated act, to derive deep gratification from the mundane.

  Thomas Keller

  Passion, Everyday Routine, Challenges

  Thomas Keller (2016). “The French Laundry Cookbook”, p.2, Artisan Books

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• There is something beautiful in the mundane if you take enough microscope to it and focus in on something that seems innocuous to begin with.

  Ed Helms

  Beautiful, Focus, Enough

  "The Office's Ed Helms, Paul Lieberstein on life after Michael Scott". Interview with Alex Fletcher, www.digitalspy.com. September 28, 2011.

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• We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Dirty, Naughty, Thinking

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• True greatness...always requires regular, consistent, small, and sometimes ordinary and mundane steps over a long period of time.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Happy, New Year, Greatness

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• In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.

  Dogen

  Sacred, Sacredness

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• Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

  Bill Moyers

  Creativity, Creative, Piercings

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• Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.

  Colin Powell

  Justice, Comforting, Needs

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• The path to success is through a continuum of mundane, unsexy, unexciting, and sometimes difficult daily disciplines compounded over time

  Darren Hardy

  Discipline, Path, Sometimes

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• We have such a finite amount of hours on this planet, and there is just no excuse for living a mundane, predictable life in life.

  Masiela Lusha

  No Excuses, Hours, Planets

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• Day-to-day things, the mundane, are what keeps the motor running.  How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going, a template for sanity.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Running, Ordinary, Tools

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• I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Fabulous, I Can

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is gentle; to allow moments of insight to give wisdom at more mundane times. Social: to see in imagination the society that is to be created, where individuals grow freely, and where hate and greed and envy die because there is nothing to nourish them. These things I believe, and the world, for all its horrors, has left me unshaken.

  Bertrand Russell

  Beautiful, Hate, Believe

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.125, Routledge

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• Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Taken, Daily Life, Fronts

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• Here's an example: someone says, "Master, please hand me the knife," and he hands them the knife, blade first. "Please give me the other end," he says. And the master replies, "What would you do with the other end?" This is answering an everyday matter in terms of the metaphysical. When the question is, "Master, what is the fundamental principle of Buddhism?" Then he replies, "There is enough breeze in this fan to keep me cool." That is answering the metaphysical in terms of the everyday, and that is, more or less, the principle zen works on. The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.

  Alan Watts

  Buddhism, Hands, Knives

  Alan Watts (2010). “What Is Zen?”, p.29, New World Library

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• The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from the latin mundus, meaning 'the world'. And the world is anything but dull: The world is wonderful. There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.

  Richard Dawkins

  Real, Latin, Mean

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• It's the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is.

  Eve Arnold

  Special, Trying, World

  "Eve Arnold obituary" by Amanda Hopkinson, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2012.

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• Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Intellectual, Transportation, Commonplace

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due.

  John Updike

  Beautiful, Reality, Giving

  John Updike (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.17, Knopf

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• The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.

  Alan Watts

  Sacred

  Alan Watts (2010). “What Is Zen?”, p.29, New World Library

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• Even the most mundane objects are things of wonder, if we stop to look at them, and the fact that we are alive is the biggest wonder of all.

  David Fontana

  Happiness, Looks, Alive

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• Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ordinary, Taste, Accustomed

  Michel de Montaigne (1877). “The Essays of Montaigne”, p.425

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• It is said that the Christian mystic Theresa of Avila found difficulty at first in reconciling the vastness of the life of the spirit with the mundane tasks of her Carmelite convent: the washing of pots, the sweeping of floors, the folding of laundry. At some point of grace, the mundane became for her a sort of prayer, a way she could experience her ever-present connection to the divine pattern which is the source of life. She began then to see the face of God in the folded sheets.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Christian, Prayer, Grace

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• I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help you die to the mundane and to the ordinary so that the extraordinary explodes in your life. .

  Rajneesh

  Love Life, Littles, Ordinary

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• You transform all who are touched by you.
  Mundane concerns, troubles, and sorrows
  dissolve in your presence, bringing JOY.

  Rumi

  Joy, Sorrow, Trouble

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• Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Mirrors, Two, Voice

  "The Beautiful and Damned".

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