Mundane Quotes
When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.
A span of a few heartbeats can make for a greater memory than the sum of a mundane year.-Catti-brie
Truth is hidden by the golden veil of the mundane. Pierce through this thin glittering sheath and know that you are the Sun
Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not the mundane life of the mortal, but the godly life of the resurrected.
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.
As far as my favorite sites, I do a lot of mundane stuff on line because I travel so much.
The path to success is through a continuum of mundane, unsexy, unexciting, and sometimes difficult daily disciplines compounded over time
Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.
Use the practice of mind and body; in order to make those moves perfectly, you have to pull your mind out of its mundane thoughts and awarenesses and bring it into the body movement.
Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.
When you fuel up with purpose you find the excitement in the mundane, the passion in the everyday, the extraordinary in the ordinary.
Let us strive for personal, practical integrity in every endeavor, regardless of how mundane or inconsequential it may seem.
Commonsense lets us down, because commonsense evolved in a world where nothing moves very fast, and nothing is very small or very large; the mundane world of the familiar.
The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.
Women are concerned about the purity and welfare of the community. ? While the father's love was related to mundane desires, the mother's love was related to spiritual concerns.
Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying.
Salinger is a master of the memorable detail, the seemingly random gesture, the debris of mundane daily operations, the stuff that is left out of any analysis.
I also find doing the mundane, everyday things in life has a calming, creative influence on me. Some of my best ideas come when I'm vacuuming or waiting in lines.
With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming," To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life, And then to come out empty--it is a tragic error. (116) trans by Robert Thurman
Marriage isn't a passion-fest; it's more like a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane, and often boring nonprofit business. And I mean this in a good way.
I believe in magical things happening and spiritual goings on. Sometimes the most mundane things can surprise you and be magical.
It's the reason we go to films and watch television: to escape the mundane nature of life and see another world and see ourselves in that other world. I think that's what sci-fi does so well.
There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things.
Waiting in line for something mundane is very boring. Waiting for my doctor to see me and waiting for my dentist to see me, yes, that is boring.
Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
There is something beautiful in the mundane if you take enough microscope to it and focus in on something that seems innocuous to begin with.
I was very drawn to music of all types, from Beethoven to Jimi Hendrix. There were musicians and composers who obviously were expressing a vision that was beyond the mundane.
We're kept so busy focusing on things that are extremely mundane while the people that possess the real power are deciding what our reality's going to be.
Who could not return from a visit to Jack Vance's world, without feeling that he had been somewhere unique, that he had experienced things unavailable in our mundane world?
You transform all who are touched by you. Mundane concerns, troubles, and sorrows dissolve in your presence, bringing JOY.
Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.
I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing.
Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by talk of vulgar, mundane things like pay.
When I was a child . . . Only virtue was prized, virtue at the expense of intellect, health, happiness, and every mundane good.
Life is not about creating an unreal existence. People should be challenged to find something cool about the mundane.
I want to be Lon Chaney. I want to be Karloff. I want to help people escape the mundane world. I want to make their skins crawl. And I want them to love it every bit as much as I do.
Because it's in and about New York City, I knew 'Ex Machina' was going to have to continually mix the mundane and the fantastic.
I didn't know you were bringing the mundane." His blue eyes flicked uneasily over Simon. "That's what I like about you people," said Simon. "You always make me feel so welcome.
I think I like ‘mundane’ better than ‘bloodsucker,’” Simon muttered. “With Jace, you don’t really get to choose your insulting nickname.” -Simon and Clary, pg.234-
Day-to-day things, the mundane, are what keeps the motor running. How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going, a template for sanity.
I hated the summer jobs I had when I was a teenager. They were so mundane and repetitious, they deadened my soul. On the bright side, it was good training for this job.
Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.
This is the ultimate cruelty, isn't it? That I can talk and talk and to anyone listening, it's only air--too rich a diet to be swallowed by a mundane world.
