Day To Day Quotes

“To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives. We need hope, the sense of a future. And we need freedom (or, at least, the illusion of freedom) to get beyond ourselves, whether with telescopes and microscopes and our ever-burgeoning technology, or in states of mind that allow us to travel to other worlds, to rise above our immediate surroundings.

We may seek, too, a relaxing of inhibitions that makes it easier to bond with each other, or transports that make our consciousness of time and mortality easier to bear. We seek a holiday from our inner and outer restrictions, a more intense sense of the here and now, the beauty and value of the world we live in.”
― Oliver Sacks

“Religion is, in reality, living. Our religion is not what we profess, or what we say, or what we proclaim; our religion is what we do, what we desire, what we seek, what we dream about, what we fantasize, what we think - all these things - twenty-four hours a day. One's religion, then, is ones life, not merely the ideal life but the life as it is actually lived.

Religion is not prayer, it is not a church, it is not theistic, it is not atheistic, it has little to do with what white people call "religion." It is our every act. If we tromp on a bug, that is our religion; if we experiment on living animals, that is our religion; if we cheat at cards, that is our religion; if we dream of being famous, that is our religion; if we gossip maliciously, that is our religion; if we are rude and aggressive, that is our religion. All that we do, and are, is our religion.”
― Jack D. Forbes, Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism

“It occurred to me that if I were a ghost, this ambiance was what I'd miss most: the ordinary, day-to-day bustle of the living. Ghosts long, I'm sure, for the stupidest, most unremarkable things.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, The Lake

“Healing—takes time,

and—so does—not healing.

Chose—how you spend your time

—wisely.”
― Lalah Delia

“Start and end your day with God.
Seek His presence and blessing daily.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“I feel I'm living in parentheses”
― Steven Wilson

“There is no shortcut for hard work that leads to effectiveness. You must stay disciplined because most of the work is behind the scenes.”
― Germany Kent

“And this notion of the meaninglessness of our lives here began to enflame us.

I took up the theme again that music and acting were good because they drove back chaos. Chaos was the meaninglessness of day-to-day life, and if we were to die now, our lives would have been nothing but meaninglessness.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“The world communicates subtly. Most people don't hear or see the signs because they're so wrapped up in their day-to-day lives.”
― Doug Cooper, Outside In

“Your future depends of the choices you make today. The future for this reason can be predicted by your day to day living.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Dream big!: See your bigger picture!

“Specifically, artists and the powerful have the ability to turn ordinary lives into dreams.”
― Psixomaxaristw

“How could I not go on talking to you? How could I not expect to see you when it's the end of the day? Our life together was many things, concrete, tangible things, that included bacon, potatoes, coffee and toothpaste, but it was also a pattern. We had flow, colour, texture. We were the originators and makers of the shared life that we worked on every day. Now, I have to work on it alone. What I have are memories. The past. The present is no longer a work in progress.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

“But it was better to know of it than to see it in its daily monotony.”
― Daisy Goodwin, The Fortune Hunter

“We lived a dot-to-dot life, never thinking too much about the future.”
― Jennifer Clement, Gun Love

“I have navigated so much of my life on autopilot, moving mechanically through the more routine parts of my day. Then, when the spiritual parts arrive—meetings, speaking, praying, writing, engagements—I ask that His Spirit fill, inhabit and lead me. That is certainly a good thing, but not His best thing. It was never God's intention for any of us to live our lives in the land of perpetually playing spiritual hokey-pokey.”
― Kim Meeder, Encountering Our Wild God: Ways to Experience His Untamable Presence Every Day

“Every moment of my life was the same; it progressed in an endless rhythm of habit, habit which I could not exit or forsake. In simple terms, and for the sake of understanding, I was trapped.”
― M. Amanuensis Sharkchild, The Dark Verse, Vol. 1: From the Passages of Revenants