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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. -- Pablo Picasso
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people. -- Albert Einstein
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. -- William Morris
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all. -- Khalil Gibran
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
There is no enlightenment outside of daily life. -- Nhat Hanh
You have to really use your imagination to refresh your daily life. -- Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps. -- Bob Black
My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life. -- Yoko Ono
The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street. -- Robert Doisneau
Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out. -- Raoul Vaneigem
We should make decisions in life with our hearts, not our brains, not only in music but in daily life. -- Andre Rieu
Like Mary, may we nurture the light born within us at Christmas. May we carry it everywhere in our daily lives. -- Pope Francis
Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life? -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? -- E. M. Forster
If we live the faith in our daily life, then our work too becomes a chance to spread the joy of being a Christian. -- Pope Francis
I meet people in my daily life, people who seem to experience some change and some growth on a personal level, and that gives me hope. -- Tracy Chapman
If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life. -- J. C. Ryle
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. -- Dalai Lama
The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows. -- Oswald Chambers
Our daily life is filled with electronic pianos, ring tones, the disembodied voice giving you your bank balance over the telephone. Even silence can be electronic, courtesy of sound-canceling headphones. -- Serge Schmemann
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
Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed, because dark energy has no effect on daily life, or even inside our solar system. -- Adam Riess
I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life. -- Iris Chang
I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money. -- Paulo Coelho
I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death. -- Courtney Love
If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work. -- Nhat Hanh
We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees. We can observe gravity in daily life. If we could throw an apple to the edge of the universe, we would observe it accelerating. -- Adam Riess
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
In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent art, but also in the enormous creativity and humanity of our daily life in city and village. -- Pranab Mukherjee
Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom. -- John F. Kennedy
Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen. -- Lydia Lunch
Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and how the world came into being. It's very remote from your daily life and mine, and yet it defines us as human beings. -- Yuri Milner
This is a very important practice. Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself. The practice is always to go back to oneself. -- Nhat Hanh
I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way. -- Eddie Vedder
We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor knows that hidden inside himself there's a wizard and a king, he also knows that when he's playing himself in his daily life, he's playing a part, he's performing, just as he's performing when he plays a part on stage. -- Wallace Shawn
I do all I can to maintain good health. I eat mostly plants, as Michael Pollan would say. I get a lot of exercise. I lead a purposeful daily life. I stay current with the dentist. I made the formative decision of where to live over thirty years ago when I settled in a 'main street' small town in upstate New York. -- James Howard Kunstler
Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends. -- Albert Einstein
It is quite natural, in pursuing enlightenment or just in trying to be happier, to look to your everyday experiences for signs of results. Indeed, your daily life is nothing else but an expression of your spiritual condition. Your life will change as you become more loving, but not in ways you can exactly predict. What happens is not important as how you react to what happens. -- Thaddeus Golas
As long as we observe love for others and respect for their rights and dignity in our daily lives, then whether we are learned or unlearned, whether we believe in the Buddha or God, follow some religion or none at all, as long as we have compassion for others and conduct ourselves with restraint out of a sense of responsibility, there is no doubt we will be happy. -- Dalai Lama
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development... For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.... Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential. -- Kofi Annan
Oh, how daily life is. -- Jules Laforgue
Dutch painting: daily life is enough. -- Mason Cooley
Appreciate the daily miracles of life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Daily life is the enemy of greatness. -- Marianne Williamson
Confrontation was the stuff of daily life. -- T.J. Stiles
Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely. -- Bonnie Friedman
I meditate. Daily practice is essential to my life. -- Richard Gere
Our daily decisions create the scrapbook of our life. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Make time daily for the development of your spiritual life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Not romance but companionship makes the happiness of daily life. -- Mason Cooley
Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Daily life shouldn't be a fashion show all the time. -- Leighton Meester
The biggest problem with life is that it's just daily. -- Rich Mullins
In their daily life, all are braver than they know. -- Henry David Thoreau
Oh, how daily life is. (Ah, que la vie est quotidienne.) -- Jules Laforgue
Your life will never improve unless you start making daily improvements. -- Lewis Howes
Thoughtful financial planning can easily take a backseat to daily life. -- Suze Orman
Daily love and kindness are the path to a happy life. -- Amy Leigh Mercree
Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh. -- Charles Kingsley
Can I live a life, daily life, without sense of self-concern? -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Family life is a daily struggle to turn love into happiness. -- Robert Breault
The daily life is so wearisome; yet duty lies that way. -- Charles Webster Leadbeater
I believe people who practice their beliefs in daily life are activists. -- Jasmine Guy
People tend to comment on my feet a lot. In daily life. -- Toks Olagundoye
We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well. -- George MacDonald
Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself -- Nhat Hanh
Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life. -- Khalil Gibran
If you're a comedian, you are looking for material in daily life. -- Rob Brydon
His imagination was always more real than the reality of daily life. -- Dan Simmons
I don't make plans. I live my life on a daily basis. -- Paulo Coelho
He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Knowing thyself. Know that your life could be define by your daily actions. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life. -- Stephen Ambrose
The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life. -- Mason Cooley
I've learned... That it's those small daily happenings that make life so spectacular. -- Andy Rooney
Living your life constructs your soul, not a few seconds of daily prayer. -- James Cook
Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing. -- Julia Cameron
The Warrior of the Light concentrates on the small miracles of daily life. -- Paulo Coelho
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. -- Mike Murdock
To reflect on everything in daily life is to nurture your buddha nature. -- Shinjo Ito
That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself. -- D. H. Lawrence
Small daily happenings make life spectacular.... start enjoying the small things in life! -- Andy Rooney
Must manage your thought life daily and then you can manage your life. -- John C. Maxwell
Listen, sharing my life with people is just part of my daily routine. -- Rita Ora
The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps -- Bob Black
Her smile energizes me as the sun photosynthesizes life. Our love grows daily. -- Jarod Kintz
The solution to all the problems of daily life is to cherish others. -- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Good temper in the business of daily life is like oil to machinery. -- George E. Sargent
Applying sunscreen became a habit that now I use in my daily life. -- Brittany Snow
For the true student, everything that happens in daily life is a test. -- Karlfried Graf Durckheim
Man must saturate his daily life in truthful speech, virtuous acts and holy thoughts. -- Sathya Sai Baba
My life provides me with these images that become expressions of my daily experience. -- Domenico Gnoli
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life. -- Virginia Woolf
The multiple choices of possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to. -- Stephen King
Small faults and virtues are for daily life. The big ones are for emergencies. -- Mason Cooley
In daily life language is important, if not in itself, then as a symptom. -- Mark Helprin
Daily life is both the subject and environment of the work I am making. -- Camille Henrot
Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice. -- Arnold Bennett
News isn't designed to talk about daily life in its nuances, but poetry is. -- Eliza Griswold
To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom. -- John Milton
The cares of this life emerge as very small items indeed along our daily path. -- Watchman Nee
I can claim to have made the daily life of the 20th Century more beautiful. -- Raymond Loewy
It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant. -- Ann Beattie
For many people, music is here to let them forget the daily chores of life. -- Daniel Barenboim
.I think daily life is the most beautiful and wonderful thing that anyone can have. -- Ana Tijoux
An extraordinary life is all about daily, continuous improvements in the areas that matter most. -- Robin Sharma
First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety. -- David Brainerd
I can't change your life till I can get you to change your daily routine. -- Mike Murdock
The divorce of our so-called spiritual life from our daily activities is a fatal dualism. -- Mary Parker Follett
If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply. -- Nhat Hanh
Everything I know about life I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write. -- Dani Shapiro
I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways. -- Orlando Bloom
If you practice a little jnana yoga in your daily life, it will help you tremendously. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
We may go to church once a week, but our Christian life is daily - step-by-step. -- David Jeremiah
Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life. -- Gertrude Stein
The greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the soul. -- David O. McKay

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