Mundane Life Quotes
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“We’re so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks—we’re involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don’t get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?”
― Tuesdays with Morrie
― Tuesdays with Morrie
“Were they aware, in the intensity of their embrace, of something slightly ridiculous about this tableau, something almost comical, as someone nearby sneezed violently into a crumpled tissue; as a dirty discarded plastic bottle scuttled along the platform under a breath of wind; as a mechanised billboard on the station wall rotated from an advertisement for hair products to an advertisement for car insurance; as life in its ordinariness and even ugly vulgarity imposed itself everywhere all around them? Or were they in this moment unaware, or something more than unaware—were they somehow invulnerable to, untouched by, vulgarity and ugliness, glancing for a moment into something deeper, something concealed beneath the surface of life, not unreality but a hidden reality: the presence at all times, in all places, of a beautiful world?”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
“drugged to sleep by repetition of the diurnal
round, the monotonous sorrow of the finite,
within I am awake
repairing in dirt the frayed immaculate thread
forced by being to watch the birth of suns”
― Star Dust
round, the monotonous sorrow of the finite,
within I am awake
repairing in dirt the frayed immaculate thread
forced by being to watch the birth of suns”
― Star Dust
“It’s the simple things in your life that make up the bulk of it. The mundane is where we live and we end up missing most of it. We find it again in the silence and in attention of everyday life.”
― 17: Haiku Poems
― 17: Haiku Poems
“Тя започва да съзира страха - не големия, грабващ до виене на свят страх от височината и пропастта, а онзи всекидневен, назабележим, дребен страшец, полепнал като сив прах по думите, по стъпките и отношенията на хората в ниското. Страшец, който носи безобидни имена: благоразумие, предпазливост, презастраховка, съгласуване, съобразяване, сигнализиране и тем подобни добродетели. Страшец, заседнал по лицата и мислите както някакъв пепеляв, защитен цвят. Струва й се, че започва да отгатва: тези млади хора се катерят така високо, за да предизвикат големия, истински, основателен страх и да тръснат от плещите си наслоения дребен, унизяващ ги страшец.”
― Лавина
― Лавина
“Someone put opera on inside the house. Someone changed it to hip-hop, thank God. Someone started a shower. Someone vacuumed. Again.
Life. In all its mundane majesty.
And you couldn't take advantage of it if you were sitting on your ass in the shadows... whether it was in actuality, or metaphorically because you were trapped in an attic's darkness.”
― Black Dagger Brotherhood Collection
Life. In all its mundane majesty.
And you couldn't take advantage of it if you were sitting on your ass in the shadows... whether it was in actuality, or metaphorically because you were trapped in an attic's darkness.”
― Black Dagger Brotherhood Collection
“Sometimes we all get dusty by a few mundane and tiring affairs—and merely need a gentle soul wash to see, and get deeply entangled with, the fervors of life again.”
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“Life is for living not for been stuck in a rut of complacency where normality consists of the mundane.”
― Life Is a Dance
― Life Is a Dance
“Battle scars aren't the only marks of a testimony. Sometimes, the testimony is just the fact that you are unscathed, that the relationship that didn't work out saved you a headache, that the business deal fell through before it even started, or that you're living a quiet, drama-free life. God is just as incredible in those moments as He is in the battle moments.”
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“The Day:
Wondering if I’m mental
Wondering if you are
Stretching my spine
Masturbating then hating it
Falling in love on aisle 12
Acting tough in public
Singing in the shower
Lotioning my untouched body
Fretting about my skin
Missing her again
And when I’m about to sleep,
I wish I could just fast forward
To wondering if I’m mental.”
― The Goodbye Song
Wondering if I’m mental
Wondering if you are
Stretching my spine
Masturbating then hating it
Falling in love on aisle 12
Acting tough in public
Singing in the shower
Lotioning my untouched body
Fretting about my skin
Missing her again
And when I’m about to sleep,
I wish I could just fast forward
To wondering if I’m mental.”
― The Goodbye Song
“Listen, there are other things in life besides the day-to-day, all of this is great but really, it's going nowhere... It seems like I don't have time to do anything. I'm stuck... I do a million things and nothing comes out...”
― Pretending Is Lying
― Pretending Is Lying
“The reason why I work on staying sensually awake is because I often find myself irked by the tiresome predictability of modern relationships.”
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“Välillä tuntuu kuin vain odottaisin. Kuljen täällä, asun täällä odottaen jotain. Mutta minulla ei ole aavistustakaan, mitä se jokin on. Erityisen selväksi tämä tulee, kun lasken päiviä seuravaan viikon alkuun kuin odottaisin sitä. En kuitenkin odota mitään erityistä. En päivää jona tapahtuisi jotain, ei muutosta näköpiirissä.”
― Inlandet
― Inlandet
“But the point was to be carefree, independent. Artists can't be hampered by thedailinessof ordinary life--Tony felt strongly about that. Doing the same things every day, forever bothered about money. Art has to be freed from all that.”
― The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories
― The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories
“No, life has no soundtrack, just the daily grind occasionally alleviated by short-lived bursts of happiness—a vacation, the birth of a child, retirement. This is my life and the life of everyone I know—all my friends, all my family members, everyone with whom I have more than a passing acquaintance. I’ve spent nearly forty-five years on this planet, and the majority of those years—my adult years, my reality-based years—have shown me that the adventure Molly and John had no longer exists. This is why I so want Molly to wake up and tell me that I’m wrong.”
― The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen
― The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen
“How can I ever do anything extraordinary with such a mundane existence?”
― Alexander and Maria
― Alexander and Maria
“But most of the time, people are doing completely mundane things and just making them seem better with their enthusiasm. It's all in how you sell the story.”
― Everyone We've Been
― Everyone We've Been
“There is often something within individuals which is much higher and better than their everyday life and actions would seem to indicate. Material environment and circumstances tend to retard and prevent the expression of the best in us”
― The Life Beyond Death
― The Life Beyond Death
“Joy is found in the mundane when you open the window of God, for He is the breath of life.”
― The Fasting Weigh: Breaking the Chains of Addiction
― The Fasting Weigh: Breaking the Chains of Addiction
“Mundane is beautiful too..
like the quiet rhythm of raindrops on a windowpane, or the simple elegance of a sunrise painting the sky in hues of pastel..
like a worn book filled with familiar stories, or a chipped mug cradling your morning coffee..
The mundane holds a quiet magic, a comfort in its constancy.”
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like the quiet rhythm of raindrops on a windowpane, or the simple elegance of a sunrise painting the sky in hues of pastel..
like a worn book filled with familiar stories, or a chipped mug cradling your morning coffee..
The mundane holds a quiet magic, a comfort in its constancy.”
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