Virginia Woolf
Novelist
"I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life."
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Theologian
"Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?"
Khalil Gibran
Poet, Writer
"Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all."
Nhat Hanh
Zen Master, Author
"If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply."
Mortimer Adler
Philosopher, Educator
"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."
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"Every person should make it his business to gather new ideas from sources other than the environment in which he daily lives and works. The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas."
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"From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other."
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"Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it."
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"Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life."
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"I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life."
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"Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book."
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"The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies."
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"We are storytelling animals, and cannot bear to acknowledge the ordinariness of our daily lives."
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"All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am not an ascetic, but I don't know what to do with them, and my daily life has never been so trying, and there is no one to fill it emotionally."
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"That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself."
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"What Americans expect from Washington is action that matches the urgency they feel in their daily lives."
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"I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink."
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"We must remain in love and develop in love; that must be the compelling force in our lives. It is possible to love everyone. When you sense you lack love, you must quite simply pray."
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"It's not so difficult to acknowledge that we lack wisdom. When we pray and seek God's wisdom with a longing for a deeper fullness of the life of Christ, then we will always find something to pursue."
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"We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world."
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"My work is mostly influenced by the concrete circumstances of our daily lives."
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"t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you could depend on."
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"In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well."
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"The multiple choices of possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to."
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"We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life."
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