Mundane Quotes
We massively exaggerate the exotic risks we can least control and massively undervalue the mundane risks we can control.
Voices and movements approach loss and remembrance profoundly, making poetry of the mundane and seasoning it with wit.
I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles.
How important is excitement to happiness? The key is to get excited about the mundane-- not just extraordinary things
Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.
When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental — far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.
Dharma doesn't necessarily mean following a mundane and boring life. It means a life of high adventure, not a life of endless, boring repetition.
The spectrum that most people exist in this world is very mundane and very unhappy. Certainly human beings are capable of experiencing great joy and happiness.
Now in war we are confronted with conditions which are strange. If we accept them we will never win. Since being realistic, as in mundane combats fistic, We will get a bloody nose and that's a sin.
I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences.
There's never been a rule of human behavior that hasn't been broken by someone, somewhere, sometime, in some circumstance mundane or spectacular. To be human is to transcend the rules.
In some ways Lawler is a conceptual Diane Arbus. She's a stalker who takes advantage of situations. She pulls back curtains, causing normal things to look freakish and the freakish to turn mundane.
I didn't choose to be the guy who talks about the mundane - it's just who I am and it's what kind of works for me.
Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interest me that much as a general thing.
You can't know how weird your own life is until you get some distance on it. Everything seems mundane or boring or embarrassingly small.
Alas, this mundane realm is never as fun as the one inside our minds. But we can endeavor to make it so.
I'd say that most of life seems to me to be that way, a mixture of the mundane and the mythic, when you're living the life of the mind.
I try to get enough sleep and exercise, try not to make mountains out of molehills, and vent a lot. I have a good team to support my work. I also do lots of mundane things, which will center me.
The mundane use of the Gayatri, its repetition for healing the sick, illustrates the meaning we have given to prayer.
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.
We have such a finite amount of hours on this planet, and there is just no excuse for living a mundane, predictable life in life.
I learned as a young man that I don't write jokes, but that I can deliver more mundane material and get a laugh. I call myself a humorist.
She'd never have allowed herself to be held by anything as mundane as a few bars and a reinforced door
You know, the fact that every morning you get a script in your mailbox, that's going to stop. All these little pedestrian, mundane things. And the cash.
To me, Twitter seems like a way for people to just let the world know about the most mundane bullshit that crosses their mind.
My job as a coach was to make something meaningful out of one of the most mundane activities on the planet: playing pro basketball.
It's numbers like these that both bubble-theorists and market cheerleaders can pounce on to make their points. Reality is more mundane.
I have always been caught by the pull of the unremarkable, by the easily missed, infinitely nourishing beauty of the mundane.
There is no mundane dimension really, if you have the eyes to see it, it is all transcendental.
Advantage comes not from the spectacular or the technical. Advantage comes from a persistent seeking of the mundane edge.
When you get into making movies, then the physical mundane reality of life must be presented. But in comics you can jack it up and work in shorthand.
Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom—ah the soul-destroying boredom—of long days of mild content.
Mundane education is regrettably prosaic, " - Jace Lightwood-Herondale
drugged to sleep by repetition of the diurnalround, the monotonous sorrow of the finite, within I am awakerepairing in dirt the frayed immaculate threadforced by being to watch the birth of suns
The magic had started to degrade, and Rosemary had slowly but surely become thoroughly, gruesomely human. And there were few things worse in this world than humans.
Sometimes we all get dusty by a few mundane and tiring affairs—and merely need a gentle soul wash to see, and get deeply entangled with, the fervors of life again.
The miracle is that the brilliance of the miraculous can live in the blandness of the mundane. The greater miracle is that we have enough brilliance in our own blandness to see it.
I would much rather have a life filled with magic than one filled with the mundane.
Habits of action cultivated early in life lay the foundation for unique skill sets able to carve a path beyond the mundane and into the relevant.
How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going, a template for sanity.
