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Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. -- Bill Moyers
A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence. -- Pam Brown
Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action in the direction of your goals - however mundane or lofty they may be. -- Jack Canfield
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
You transform all who are touched by you. Mundane concerns, troubles, and sorrows dissolve in your presence, bringing JOY. -- Rumi
Mundane humans create distinctions between themselves, distinctions that seem ridiculous to any Shadowhunter. Their distinctions are based on race, religion, national identity, any of a dozen minor and irrelevant markers. ~ Valentine -- Cassandra Clare
Bourgeois existence is the regime of private affairs . . . and the family is the rotten, dismal edifice in whose closets and crannies the most ignominious instincts are deposited. Mundane life proclaims the total subjugation of eroticism to privacy. -- Walter Benjamin
Meliorn looked impassive. "Mundane humans are not permitted in the Court." "I wish someone had mentioned that earlier," said Simon, to no one in particular. "I take it I'm just supposed to wait out here until vines start growing on me?" Meliorn considered. "That might offer significant amusement. -- Cassandra Clare
Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
What will you do in the mundane days of faithfulness? -- Martin Luther
Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things. -- Michel de Montaigne
To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored. -- David Byrne
I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences. -- Harvey Pekar
I always end up hurting myself doing something mundane. If I have to do some complicated stunt, I'm fine. -- Lauren Cohan
True greatness...always requires regular, consistent, small, and sometimes ordinary and mundane steps over a long period of time. -- Howard W. Hunter
There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My mentor in college was Stephen Shore. I loved his color palettes and his taking mundane things but finding them fascinating. -- Gia Coppola
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. -- Colin Powell
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
The cost of discipleship is to live the life God has given us, serving in mundane ways the people he's put in our path. -- Mark Galli
Even just a few spices or ethnic condiments that you can keep in your pantry can turn your mundane dishes into a culinary masterpiece. -- Marcus Samuelsson
A lot of people use social media to share mundane things or for self-glorification. I try to use it to share interesting things with people. -- Ashton Kutcher
We tend to lack humility toward love, to patronize it rather than bow before it, to put mundane considerations before the emotional need to hold someone in our arms. -- Marianne Williamson
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
I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life! -- Francis Ford Coppola
A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten. -- David Mamet
What I like about The Sims is that I don't have a normal life at all, so I play this game where these people have these really boring, mundane lives. It's fun. -- Gerard Way
It's funny how something so normal and mundane that you see every day-your body-can be controversial. The shock value is intense. It's like carrying an art piece around with you all the time. -- Beth Ditto
Creativity can release you from the limitations that the world has constructed around you; the everyday, mundane, 9-5 jail cell where everybody is waiting for the weekend to party so they can get outside of their head. -- Robert LaSardo
I want to see the church get closer to the people. I want to get rid of clericalism, the mundane, this closing ourselves off within ourselves, in our parishes, schools or structures. Because these need to get out! -- Pope Francis
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
Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage. -- Laura Schlessinger
Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing. -- Peter Hammill
It's embarrassing that we're in the 21st century and we don't even know what makes gravity work. I'm getting older and thinking maybe I should tackle more than the mundane. I may fail, but at least I will have tried. -- Woody Norris
Thomas Teal, a luminous translator of Jansson's twin talent for surface and depth, simplicity and reverberation in language, and someone who knows exactly how to convey her gift for sensing the meaning embedded in the most mundane act or turn of phrase. -- Ali Smith
In the end, all worlds, whether they're set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fictions. Sure, you don't got to do too much work to build a mundane world, but don't get it twisted: you still got to do some work. -- Junot Diaz
Drones ply the liminal space between the physical and the digital - pilots fly them, but aren't in them. They are versatile and fascinating objects - the things they can do range from the mundane (aerial photography) to the spectacular - killing people, for example. -- John Battelle
A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it's the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic 'newsworthy' events. -- Robert D. Kaplan
New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself. To think of 'living' there was to reduce the miraculous to the mundane; one does not 'live' at Xanadu. -- Joan Didion
There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism. -- bell hooks
As a child, these colourful superheroes that could fly, or were horrifying like Ghost Rider and the Hulk, with this tremendous rage or these supernatural powers, provided an escape for me from my mundane existence, from my lack of friends or my inability to communicate well with people. They liberated me. -- Nicolas Cage
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
I want to wake up with you beside me in the mornings. I want to spend my evenings looking at you across the dinner table. I want to share every mundane detail of my day with you and hear every detail of yours. I want to laugh with you and fall asleep with you in my arms. -- Nicholas Sparks
One of the things I've started doing lately is tracking my dreams. I feel like there's a lot of information there and you can really bring those emotions to the situations that may feel mundane or familiar. That gives them new life and gives you a new relationship with it - if that makes any sort of sense. -- Jennifer Carpenter
Don't think about how your characters sound, but how they see. Watch the world through their eyes - study the extraordinary and the mundane through their particular perspective. Walk around the block with them, stroll the rooms they live in, figure out what objects on the cluttered dining room table they would inevitably stare at the longest, and then learn why. -- Dinaw Mengestu
If you can approach the world's complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have seen, you have only scratched the surface, you will find worlds within worlds, beauties you could not heretofore imagine, and your own mundane preoccupations will shrink to proper size, not all that important in the greater scheme of things. -- Daniel Dennett
Going to grocery stores is almost my favorite thing to do to calm myself down. There's something about just walking aisle after aisle making mundane choices. 'Do I want that? No, I want the one that has the low sodium.' And that feels like a good exercise to be doing when there isn't anything to be doing. It's like a kick-starter in some way. -- Shane Carruth
Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the freedom that exists in the world of madness and becomes addicted to it. You no longer have to take on responsibilities, to struggle to earn your daily bread, to be bothered with repetitive, mundane tasks. You could spend hours looking at a picture or making absurd doodles. Everything is torelated because, after all, the person is mentally ill. -- Paulo Coelho
I didn't like mundane life. -- Jeanne Calment
Time had changed the magical to mundane -- Rohinton Mistry
Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness. -- Sigmund Freud
The only training for the heroic is the mundane. -- Edmund Burke
The mundane and the sacred are one and the same. -- Alan Watts
I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can. -- Rufus Wainwright
Prada is something that should be so mundane, like clothes. -- Miuccia Prada
Mantras are passwords that transform the mundane into the sacred. -- Deva Premal
It's hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing. -- Guy Kawasaki
'Physician, heal thyself' is more true in matters religious than mundane. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I just really like seeing mundane stuff in movies. It's realistic. -- Ti West
In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane. -- Dogen
An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap. -- Richard Reeves
To practice nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value. -- Mahatma Gandhi
This job's a pain-it's so mundane It sure don't stimulate my brain. -- Shania Twain
Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions. -- Amory Lovins
How strange it was that a dream, once realized, could quickly turn mundane. -- Maggie Shipstead
God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions. -- Richard Flanagan
If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane. -- Ray Harryhausen
My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives. -- Aaron Swartz
I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing. -- Amy Sherman-Palladino
Energy work is priceless. It makes every day extraordinary and transforms the mundane to the holy. -- Silvia Hartmann
I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life. -- Martha Reeves
We can create a different future - one simple, beautifully mundane, daily decision at a time. -- Patti Digh
Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying. -- Thomas Sowell
There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think. -- Jim Gaffigan
Huge numbers of embassy cables are labeled 'unclassified' or 'limited official use' and deal with mundane matters. -- Elliott Abrams
When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimentalâ??far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns. -- Franz Grillparzer
Your non attachment to the mundane is your charm. Your attachment to the divine is your beauty. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating. -- Donald Miller
There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things. -- Yuanwu Keqin
Voices and movements approach loss and remembrance profoundly, making poetry of the mundane and seasoning it with wit. -- Deborah Jowitt
If, as has been postulated before, heroism happens when courage meets circumstance, what if the circumstances are mundane? -- Brad Herzog
you can't really separate modernity from history or spiritual concerns from mundane ones. Everything feeds into everything else. -- G. Willow Wilson
As for logic and internal consistency, these mundane rules do not apply to sacred writings and never have... -- Robert A. Heinlein
There is no mundane dimension really, if you have the eyes to see it, it is all transcendental. -- Terence McKenna
How important is excitement to happiness? The key is to get excited about the mundane-- not just extraordinary things -- Dennis Prager
My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due. -- John Updike
Let us strive for personal, practical integrity in every endeavor, regardless of how mundane or inconsequential it may seem. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
It's the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is. -- Eve Arnold
Becoming aware of the dearness in what might otherwise be regarded as mundane is the ultimate form of insight. -- L.M. Browning
His was a psychological and emotional disturbance of untold, awful depth, mundane and yet tragic in that very ordinariness. -- John Connolly
To be bigoted & argue with others, is to subject one's essence of mind to the bitterness of mundane existence. -- Huineng
Advantage comes not from the spectacular or the technical. Advantage comes from a persistent seeking of the mundane edge. -- Tom Peters
When I'm riding my bicycle I feel like a Buddhist who is happy just to enjoy his mundane existence -- Robin Williams
We massively exaggerate the exotic risks we can least control and massively undervalue the mundane risks we can control. -- David L. Katz
As far as my favorite sites, I do a lot of mundane stuff on line because I travel so much. -- Bruce Campbell
How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams? -- Robin Hobb
She'd never have allowed herself to be held by anything as mundane as a few bars and a reinforced door -- Patricia Briggs
The mundane use of the Gayatri, its repetition for healing the sick, illustrates the meaning we have given to prayer. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The path to success is through a continuum of mundane, unsexy, unexciting, and sometimes difficult daily disciplines compounded over time -- Darren Hardy
Rock and roll is a nuclear blast of reality in a mundane world where no-one is allowed to be magnificent. -- Kim Fowley
Joy lurks in every mundane thing, just waiting to be found. Love is impervious to reason. And words are wonderful. -- Anna Lyndsey
The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions. -- Billy Joel
A span of a few heartbeats can make for a greater memory than the sum of a mundane year.-Catti-brie -- R. A. Salvatore
It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane. -- Terry Pratchett
I believe in magical things happening and spiritual goings on. Sometimes the most mundane things can surprise you and be magical. -- Rae Morris
I have always been caught by the pull of the unremarkable, by the easily missed, infinitely nourishing beauty of the mundane. -- Tana French
Try to pick a profession in which you enjoy even the most mundane, tedious parts. Then you will always be happy -- Will Shortz
The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct. -- Richard Le Gallienne
It's numbers like these that both bubble-theorists and market cheerleaders can pounce on to make their points. Reality is more mundane. -- Prentice Marshall
When I was a child . . . Only virtue was prized, virtue at the expense of intellect, health, happiness, and every mundane good. -- Bertrand Russell
Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. -- Bill Moyers
Business leaders must find ways to infuse mundane business activities with deeper, soul-stirring ideals, such as honor, truth, love, justice, and beauty. -- Gary Hamel
Much of life appears mundane at the time. Yet in God's providence every moment includes significant details arranged by His divine hand. -- Dillon Burroughs
THE VOICE: (to BEAUTY) Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book. -- Geoffrey Fisher
Alas, this mundane realm is never as fun as the one inside our minds. But we can endeavor to make it so. -- Larry Atchley Jr.
Theology is for homemakers who need to know who God is, who they are, and what this mundane life is all about. -- Gloria Furman
What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week. -- C. S. Lewis

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