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Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives. -- Jorge Garcia
Despite the enormous role that local government plays in our daily lives, the constitution makes not one mention of it. -- Anthony Albanese
Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives. -- Christy Turlington
Because it's free, easy to use, and high-quality, photography is now a fixture in our daily lives - something we take for granted. -- Peter Diamandis
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
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
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
We think we know what it's all about; we think that disability is a really simple thing, and we don't expect to see disabled people in our daily lives. -- Stella Young
Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement. -- B. F. Skinner
We can bring positive energy into our daily lives by smiling more, talking to strangers in line, replacing handshakes with hugs, and calling our friends just to tell them we love them. -- Brandon Jenner
It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them. -- Dalai Lama
As individual people, embedded in our daily lives, of course we're interested in what makes one person different from another. We've got to hire one person and not another, marry one person and not another. -- Steven Pinker
Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now. -- Nhat Hanh
And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives. -- Stephen King
As we grow up in more technology-enriched environments filled with laptops and smart phones, technology is not just becoming a part of our daily lives - it's becoming a part of each and every one of us. -- Adora Svitak
The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents or from child support services, or from other agencies that often have little or no legal restraints on their power. -- James Bovard
In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington. -- Fred Thompson
Transportation is the center of the world! It is the glue of our daily lives. When it goes well, we don't see it. When it goes wrong, it negatively colors our day, makes us feel angry and impotent, curtails our possibilities. -- Robin Chase
The explosion in access to mobile phones and digital services means that people everywhere are contributing vast amounts of information to the global knowledge warehouse. Moreover, they are doing so for free, just by communicating, buying and selling goods and going about their daily lives. -- Ban Ki-moon
September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think we all have a duty to devote at least a small portion of our daily lives to ensuring that neither America nor the world ever forgets September 11. -- Bill Frist
There's not democracy in the workplace. I mean, through most of our daily lives, the idea of democracy is fairly nonexistent. And I think things work better when the people who have to work with whatever it is we're working with have a say in how it's working. -- Michael Moore
By fundamentally changing how we design the places and systems that enable our daily lives, we can slash emissions way beyond the immediate carbon savings - because our own personal emissions are just the tip of a vast iceberg of energy and resources consumed far from our view. -- Alex Steffen
I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious. -- Alanis Morissette
I've never understood activity holidays since we seem to have far too much activity in our daily lives as it is. Find a culture where loafing is the order of the day and where they don't understand our need to be constantly doing things. Find somewhere you can have a hammock holiday. -- Tom Hodgkinson
Worldly influences would hinder use of our agency afforded through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. But we are agents who can act, and that affects everything in terms of how we live the gospel in our daily lives. It affects how we pray, how we study the scriptures, how we worship at church. -- David A. Bednar
Heavenly Father has given a simple pattern for us to receive the Holy Ghost not once but continually in the tumult of our daily lives. The pattern is repeated in the sacramental prayer: We promise that we will always remember the Savior. We promise to take His name upon us. We promise to keep His commandments. -- Henry B. Eyring
There's politics in all aspects of our daily lives. -- Michael Moore
The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies. -- Banana Yoshimoto
We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world. -- Carl Sagan
A cultural shift is needed to incorporate exercise into our children's daily lives. -- Darell Hammond
My work is mostly influenced by the concrete circumstances of our daily lives. -- bell hooks
Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives. -- Aaron Swartz
Health care providers, saving lives daily in our emergency rooms, live with federal mandates. -- Barbara Ann Radnofsky
History , as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock. -- Robert Heilbroner
Power, approval, comfort, and control are meta-idols that hold sway over our daily lives. -- Timothy Keller
We are storytelling animals, and cannot bear to acknowledge the ordinariness of our daily lives. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Buddha is in our hearts. Buddha is in our mouths. Buddha is in our daily lives. -- Gautama Buddha
In the midst of our daily lives, we must find the juice to nourish our creative souls. -- Sark
What Americans expect from Washington is action that matches the urgency they feel in their daily lives. -- Barack Obama
Little girls are taught to be dependent, incapable of valuing themselves in many aspects of their daily lives. -- Josefina Vazquez Mota
When we change our daily lives - the way we think, speak and act - we change the world. -- Nhat Hanh
Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Using affirmations on a daily basis is one of the easiest things we can do to change our lives. -- Robert Anthony
Recalling what our lives were like before Jesus Christ entered them will help keep our daily problems in perspective. -- Max Anders
My sculpture thrives in the context of the city, interacting with people in the course of their daily lives. -- Janet Echelman
Prejudice is an assortment of deceptively small personal judgments - deceptive because of their great cost in our daily lives. -- Jean Stapleton
A large majority of Americans believe that corporations exert too much influence on our daily lives and our political process. -- Jim McGovern
If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery. -- Simon Hoggart
When it costs $50 to fill up our gas tanks, it impacts every aspect of our daily lives and the community. -- Tim Murphy
Our extended family is an integral part of our daily lives and Connie and I welcome you with open arms. -- Frank Jordan
The better men know the Lord, the better may the eternal truths we learn be applied in our daily lives. -- John Andreas Widtsoe
Like Mary, may we nurture the light born within us at Christmas. May we carry it everywhere in our daily lives. -- Pope Francis
Rediscover the Rosary in the light of scripture, in harmony with the Liturgy, and in the context of your daily lives. -- Pope John Paul II
Compassion, tolerance, forgiveness and a sense of self-discipline are qualities that help us lead our daily lives with a calm mind -- Dalai Lama
A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God. -- Jonathan Edwards
When we let the energy of our existence flow freely, without being obstructed by fear, happiness finds its way into our daily lives. -- Raphael Zernoff
Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous... I define vulnerability as emotional risk, exposure, uncertainty. It fuels our daily lives. -- BrenÃ© Brown
We, whoever we are, must have a daily goal in our lives, no matter how small or great, to make that day mean something. -- Maxwell Maltz
If our bodies aren't being taken care of then our work starts to suffer and we're [not getting the most from] our daily lives. -- Jennifer Aniston
Prayer is the most powerful form of energy one can generate....It supplies us with a flow of sustaining power in our daily lives. -- Alexis Carrel
We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives. -- Robert W. Welch, Jr.
Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives. -- Thomas S. Monson
I think most people, no matter what their situation, manage to find joy and comfort in their daily lives. I also think things fall apart. -- Deborah Ellis
In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity? -- Bruce Sterling
The best jokes resonate because they uncover ridiculousness in our daily lives, reveal the silliness - and sometimes sadness - of things we see every day. -- Rachel Sklar
Artists lead unglamorous daily lives of discipline and routine, but their work is full of passion. Each has a vision and feels responsibility to that vision. -- Merrill Brockway
It is partly the absence of recorded history which sends women now to the lives of women past for the detailed documentation of their daily lives. -- Dale Spender
The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives -- the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods. -- Nhat Hanh
That's half of what we do our daily lives - we react to our surroundings. Of course, we have to make it entertaining, and we are entertainers. -- Nicolas Winding Refn
My family lives all around me. We see each other daily. It's very, very complicated. I think that families hold us together and they split us apart. -- Terry Tempest Williams
To survive the daily bumps and bruises that come with living our lives, we all need a gentle and loving home both within and outside of ourselves. -- Holly Elissa Bruno
If we can look upon our work not for self-benefit,but as a means to benefit society,we will be practicing appreciation and patience in our daily lives. -- Gautama Buddha
There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny. -- Edith Wharton
My purpose is to inspire people of all walks of life to discover the virtue inherent within them and to bring forth that virtue in their daily lives. -- William Shirley
Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or our own daily lives. -- Mortimer Adler
The real truth of life is on the streets. Photograph the daily lives of people, and how they exist, and how they fight for space and time and pleasure. -- Don McCullin
I believe that simple, consistent shifts in our thinking and actions can lead to the miraculous in all aspects of our daily lives, including our relationships, finances, bodies, and self-image. -- Gabrielle Bernstein
Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace. -- Nhat Hanh
In True Balance Sonia Choquette takes the mystery out of staying balanced, both physically and spiritually. She offers a clear explanation of our chakras and how they influence our daily lives. -- Salle Merrill Redfield
People should go about their daily lives, to work, to live, to travel, to shop, to do the things people did in the same way as they did them before 11 September. -- Tony Blair
To the extent that we live in a postmodern world and it shapes the concrete circumstances of our daily lives, I would say postmodernism affects my work or influences my work. -- bell hooks
By venturing into space, we improve life for everyone here on Earth - scientific advances and innovations that come from this kind of research create products we use in our daily lives. -- Buzz Aldrin
Everywhere we look, technology has changed our daily lives - from the way we pay our bills, to the way we buy plane tickets or keep in touch with friends and family. -- Peter Roskam
I was born and raised in Santa Cruz, California, and the whole lifestyle revolves around the beach. My parents met surfing, and the beach was a major part of our daily lives. -- Marisa Miller
Listening better. Caring more. Being there. Its not big changes, but the little ones in our daily lives that make all the difference. With little ways to love more, big things happen -- Yehuda Berg
We often engage the defense mechanism of tunnel vision, just to keep ourselves focused on our daily lives. This makes us terribly jaded in our perception of what is really around us. -- Vera Nazarian
Being a decorator allowed me to see what about people's environments made them happy. And what things they could do to have more light and color and joy in their daily lives. -- Alexandra Stoddard
What happens and what you encounter, what you collide with - it's so exciting and revealing about how much more interesting and tricky the universe is than we think in our daily lives. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and become part of our daily lives in Taiwan. -- Chen Shui-bian
The Internet has transformed many parts of our daily lives, touching everything from how we find information to how we go shopping, get directions, and even stay in touch with friends and family. -- Dean Ornish
The Arab-Israeli conflict is the biggest problem, but small problems shape the daily lives of Israelis. Unless there happens to be a war going on, the Arab-Israeli conflict is irrelevant in daily life. -- Yair Lapid
The relationship between the films and the individual Commandments [is] a tentative one. The films should be influenced by the individual Commandments to the same degree that the Commandments influence our daily lives. -- Krzysztof Kieslowski
I want to be part of the storytelling that educates people and awakens a sense of compassion in other people of the kind of people they don't encounter in their daily lives very frequently. -- Kelly McCreary
I don't think anybody in the world is perfect. I don't think anybody is absolutely good or bad or stupid. Each one of us combines all those qualities in our daily lives, I think. -- Anita Rau Badami
The sheer magnitude of Speaker Pelosis spending spree is mind boggling. Most of us do not use the number 1,000,000,000,000 in our daily lives, so it is difficult to attach tangible value to the figure. -- Geoff Davis
The 'Cold War' impinged on the daily lives of Americans. The wars after 11 September 2001 have been fought without the general American population having to make any sacrifices. It goes on, and so do we. -- Stanley Hauerwas
I strive to find materials that will engage students, expand their capacities as critical readers and thinkers, and feel immediately relevant to their daily lives and future work in court and social service systems. -- Dean Spade
Consumer technology and medical tools have been created to benefit our daily lives. Without self-regulation, though, the industry could be at risk of potentially halting years of innovation and stunting growth in this field. -- Ariel Garten

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