Quotes About Everyday Things

#1. In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

James Anthony Froude

#2. Remember that common sense is not common practice, and that people who succeed are often those who do the little, everyday things that others won't.

Todd Henry

#3. After all, life was not made up of moments of exaltation, but of quite ordinary, everyday things

Georgette Heyer

#4. Life excites me-just little, normal, everyday things. Getting out of bed. Getting dressed. Making food. I find it all exciting.

Liv Tyler

#5. The design of everyday things is in great danger of becoming the design of superfluous, overloaded, unnecessary things.

Donald A. Norman

#6. I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do.

Johnny Mathis

#7. It's very helpful to realize that being here, sitting in meditation, doing simple everyday things like working, walking outside, talking with people, bathing, using the toilet, and eating, is actually all that we need to be fully awake, fully alive, fully human.

Pema Chodron

#8. People have a habit of doing everyday things even under the oddest conditions.

Harper Lee

#9. I take simple everyday things that happen to me and I figure it happens to a lot of other people and I make simple rhymes out of them.

Edgar Guest

#10. You don't need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.

Warren Buffett

#11. I just tend to think about everyday things for my onstage act. Actually you know what I like to talk about just the absolute most - the more mundane the subject matter, the more interesting it is to me.

Brian Regan

#12. Life in San Francisco is still just life. If you want one thing too much it's likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk - and

Larry McMurtry

#13. I'm always interested in the spooky repurposing of everyday things.

William Gibson

#14. The reason his father has no time for poetry is that he is afraid of the messiness of life. Poetry feeds on all that spills over the boundaries of the usual things, the everyday things with which most people are obsessed, so William has no time for it.

Elliot Perlman

#15. It comes every year and will go on forever. And along with Christmas belong the keepsakes and the customs. Those humble, everyday things a mother clings to, and ponders, like Mary in the secret spaces of her heart.

Marjorie Holmes

#16. Being in a wheelchair has made everyday things difficult. Things you wouldn't imagine. Like the looks I get at high school basketball games when they tell everyone to stand for the National Anthem.

Travis J. Dahnke

#17. I think as someone who collects beautiful things from the past, the thing that I miss the most about modernism and the things I lament about the past are everyday things that you would use were made more beautifully.

Dita Von Teese

#18. The real miracle is a man who can walk with God every day ... When a person walks with God, he finds joy in the everyday things he does. Gradually his life begins to expand.

Harold Klemp

#19. Often, it'a not one great, dramatic thing that God asks us to do but hundreds of little everyday things. If we want to be used by Him, if we're ready to be used and aren't all tangled up with your own plans and projects, then He'll show us the work He has for us.

Lynn Austin

#20. Depression tends to turn us away from the everyday things of God's creation. But whenever God steps in, His inspiration is to do the most natural, simple things- things we would never have imagined God was in, but as we do them we find Him there.

Oswald Chambers

#21. When you really consider the everyday things around you, they start to seem like tiny miracles.

Amy Shearn

#22. Small, everyday things can lift us out of despair. But nobody can do it for you. You're the one who has to watch for the open door.

Donna Tartt

#23. I felt squeezed in that vise along with the mass of everyday things and people, and I had a bad taste in my mouth, a permanent sense of nausea that exhausted me, as if everything, thus compacted, and always tighter, were grinding me up, reducing me to a repulsive cream.

Elena Ferrante

#24. I like George Carlin's jokes. I like his humor. He's one of my heroes, and I like what he did with talking about everyday things.

Steven Wright

#25. The right circumstances sometimes happen of their own accord, slyly, without fanfare, without warning. Layman's alchemy ... The magic of everyday things.

Joanne Harris

#26. But I feel overwhelmed with the everyday things that insist on my attention. And under-whelmed.

Bill Callahan

#27. Practice following your intuition in everyday things, trusting your gut feelings moment by moment and acting on them as best you can. As you learn to trust yourself in smaller matters, you will build power and confidence to take bigger risks and deal with the larger issues in your life successfully.

Shakti Gawain

#28. Paintings may serve a spiritual purpose for Catholics, but remember too that Protestants see God everywhere, in everything. By painting everyday things - tables and chairs, bowls and pitchers, soldiers and maids - are they not celebrating God's creation as well?" I

Tracy Chevalier

#29. That's how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have. (Cassia Reyes)

Ally Condie

#30. Austen, I realized, had not been writing about everyday things because she couldn't think of anything else to talk about. She had been writing about them because she wanted to show how important they really are.

William Deresiewicz

#31. We're taught that domestic life is not a "serious" political topic, like war and peace, but the fact is that we spend most of our lives doing everyday things: at the dinner table, in the kitchen, washing dishes, grocery-shopping, commuting. These things make up the fabric of our lives.

Annia Ciezadlo

#32. It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things.

Evan Davis

#33. The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things.

Aries Spears

#34. I can't worry too much about the everyday things. Otherwise I'd lose touch with my own world, that helps me as an artist, but it's frustrating for the people around me. I'm vaguely functional, but there's always something slightly off.

Florence Welch

#35. Instead of imagining the frightening and the ugly, I will try to find the beautiful in everyday things.

Rosamund Lupton

#36. The older you get, the easier it is to get injured. But what I've learned the hard way is that the more excess weight you have, the more likely you are to get injured doing everyday things.

Steve Howey

#37. This love for everyday things,
part natural from the wide eye of Infancy,
part a literary calculation

Billy Collins

#38. If you want one thing too much it's likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk - and feisty gentlemen.

Larry McMurtry

#39. The Warrior tries to enjoy the small everyday things of life.

Paulo Coelho

#40. One of the most amazing revelations of God comes to us when we learn that it is in the everyday things of life that we realize the magnificent deity of Jesus Christ.

Oswald Chambers

#41. The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#42. Healthy foods are great, but it's important to keep your body active. Your muscles only get stronger and build more endurance for everyday things if you're moving and get the blood pumping. Exercising stimulates certain brain chemicals and can put you in a better mood!

Jenna Ushkowitz

#43. Life just swallows you up, doesn't it?Just swallows you up with its everyday things

Simon Van Booy

#44. We are sliding into a time of simplification where the practical design of everyday things will be an important demand to consider

Kay Bojesen

#45. Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#46. I needed no man to empower me. I had my father to thank for that much; his absence in most everyday things had prepared me well enough to stand on my own.

Kerri Maniscalco

#47. I relax by looking at things and reading about things. Even the simplest thing can reveal a great deal about the world around us. It relaxes me greatly to sit back with my feet up and look around my study at the everyday things that surround me.

Henry Petroski

#48. 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.

Gail Tsukiyama

#49. I think that people want to know how to do practical and everyday things like how to get the pomegranate seeds out of a pomegranate.

Martha Stewart

#50. To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.

Bill Bryson

#51. Everything I dream is something simple and plain and everyday. That's how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have

Ally Condie

#52. Try as I do to comprehend the human project and my part in it, I am further than ever from understanding the monstrous everyday things that seem like self-evident truths and existential necessities to so many.

Michael Leunig

#53. Write down everything you can think of, no matter how stupid it seems. I always write down my thoughts throughout the day. Sometimes good things come out of it, and I'll find an idea to develop into a song, so my best advice is to try and draw inspiration from everyday things.

Daya

#54. We have laid the foundation for a better life. Things that were unimaginable a few years ago have become everyday reality. I belong to the generation of leaders for whom the achievement of democracy was the defining challenge.

Nelson Mandela

#55. I'm on an Isabel Marant kick. She does an amazing job of making things that are everyday-wearable but also special and a little bit different. I definitely like that she has a '70s western vibe. There's something that's very fun and vintage in what she's doing.

Jennifer Morrison

#56. When each day is the same as the nest it's because people fail to reconize the good things that happen in thier lives everyday the sunrises,

Paulo Coelho

#57. The truth is, what you do matters. What you do today matters. What you do every day matters. Successful people just do the things that seem to make no difference in the act of doing them and they do them over and over and over until the compound effect kicks in.

Jeff Olson

#58. Most successful people chose the path and did the things in their own way, against all the rules and guidelines, but we are everyday told to follow the rules to be a successful person.

M.F. Moonzajer

#59. But these days the demons are more insidious; they're the everyday annoyances, the little things that suck away our potential to do big things.

Jocelyn K. Glei

#60. I don't write about the same thing every time, everyday, different things are happening out there and if you take the time to look around, you can see that, then you can put it all together and tell the story.

Desmond Dekker

#61. Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.

Daniel Craig

#62. We look for wonders and the unseen reality-the hand of God- in things extrordinary, when more often his presence is to be found in the unheralded, familiar, everyday events of which life is woven.

David G. Myers

#63. My everyday life in which I do exactly the same things as everyone else should not inspire people, and yet I am constantly congratulated by strangers for simply existing.

Stella Young

#64. It's not some big event that creates the drama, it's the little things of everyday life that bring about that drama.

Asghar Farhadi

#65. Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, and the imaginary meaning about it all, and I wanted to bring these things together, and in this first big Resurrection of mine you have a good example of this sort of thing.

Stanley Spencer

#66. I was surprised to find myself in tears. Because these women had trusted me to help as a writer, I began to see a way of bringing together two things - writing and activism - that until then had torn me apart in everyday life.

Gloria Steinem

#67. I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#68. And what no one else knew was the appalling weight of the thing they were carrying inside. The inhuman effort it took sometimes to be normal, and a part of things that appeared both easy and everyday. The loneliness of that. Moved and

Rachel Joyce

#69. Everyday some people discover you! What good things have you got for them? Just like preparing a soup, prepare good things and keep them ready for the people who discover you!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#70. You sometimes find something good in the lunatic fringe. In fact, we have got as part of our social and economic government today a whole lot of things which in my boyhood were considered lunatic fringe, and yet they are now part of everyday life.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#71. Like an old person, the Old Soul is easily tired by pressure, tension and conflict. To them, the matters of everyday life are unsurprising, commonplace and inconsequential in the greater scheme of things.

Aletheia Luna

#72. You can find heroism everyday, like guys working terrible jobs because they've got to support their families. Or as far as humor, the things I see on the job, on the street, are far funnier than anything you'll ever see on TV.

Harvey Pekar

#73. A lot of times, the reason we struggle to feel and receive the love of God - to see ourselves as His beloved, adopted children - is because we're not pursuing in our everyday lives those things His Word describes as being valuable and significant.

Matt Chandler

#74. ... what kind of life do we live if we let fear break us down? The truth is there will be tough times, we've certainly been through them before; but good things happen everyday. Great things. We just have to open our eyes and see them.

Christene Houston

#75. There are things players go through on an everyday basis in the business of football. You don't see it all with the glitz and glamour of game day.

Terrell Owens

#76. Have a policy of pre-emptive forgiveness. Refuse to get offended by petty things. Make a decision early on to cut the other person some slack in everyday life. Then you can take comfort in knowing they'll do it for you, as well. Accepting each other, flaws and all, is what love is all about.

Gaelen Foley

#77. I try to stay in shape just to handle things like the stress of a job or everyday life.

Erin Andrews

#78. Much of everyday life is filled with opportunities to be distracted. Our possessions ... entertainment ... cares and anxieties ... and even the passionate desire and pursuit of things, some good and not so good, can keep our minds and hearts caught up in a flurry of activity.

Joyce Meyer

#79. Everyday I discover more and more beautiful things. It's enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.

Claude Monet

#80. It seems everyday I find a new road, a new person that can help my cycling better and help me understand more things. I compare cycling to life often.

Robin Farina

#81. I swore that I would never say I miss you more everyday but, some things are better left unsaid ...

Ariana Grande

#82. Everyday I think about dying About disease, starvation, violence, terrorism, war, the end of the world. It helps keep my mind off things.

Roger McGough

#83. The span of three or four minutes is pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. People lose hundreds of minutes everyday, squandering them on trivial things. But sometimes in those fragments of time, something can happen you'll remember the rest of your life.

Lisa Kleypas

#84. Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published everyday, like those of a baseball player.

William Alexander

#85. The bad, icky and stinky things that happen sometimes should never be allowed to have an adverse effect over the good, lovely and beautiful things happening everyday.

Azhar Ali

#86. You're allowed to want different things in bed than you do in your normal everyday life.

Meredith Wild

#87. Everyday, say a hundred things you love about yourself.

Sonia Choquette

#88. Many people are probably better off avoiding therapists and using the resources and support available to us in everyday life. But therapy can be a chance to think things through with a professional in a calm, supportive and nonjudgmental atmosphere, and that can be helpful.

Peter Kinderman

#89. There's a monster living inside of me, eating little bits of me everyday, and I can't seem to stop it. It makes me do things I don't want to do, say things I don't want to say.

C.M. Stunich

#90. My favorite part of the film business is the research part, with the access we get from people who are excited to be involved and the things we get to see and do, which we're not normally going to get in everyday life.

Jason Clarke

#91. Remember that the future is not somewhere we are going, it is something we are creating. Everyday we do things that make some futures more probable and others less likely.

Ian Lowe

#92. Most suicidal teens are different; they're tempted to kill themselves. with me, i know i need to die; i should be killed for the things i've done. but i keep feeling this nudge, this TEMPTATION TO LIVE. and everyday i pray to god that i never lose that temptation.

Jake Vander Ark

#93. We can fight seizures if we fight for our dreams everyday and appreciate the little things we accomplish

Rachel Scott

#94. I got into songwriting because I'm not very good at communicating sometimes, just my true words, so music was always my way of expressing myself and being able to put things into lyrics that I couldn't say necessarily in my everyday life.

LIZ

#95. The simpler elements of the scientific world have no immediate counterparts in everyday experience; we use them to build things which have counterparts.

Arthur Stanley Eddington

#96. But I believe good things happen everyday. I believe good things happen even when bad things happen. And I believe on a happy day like today, we can still feel a little sad. And that's life, isn't it?

Gabrielle Zevin

#97. God comes to us in the things we know best and cane verify most easily, the things of our everyday life.

Pope John Paul II

#98. Your brain gets too comfortable in your everyday surroundings. You need to make it uncomfortable. You need to spend some time in another land, among people that do things differently than you. Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.

Austin Kleon

#99. As I get older, the things that I want are starting to make more sense. Being able to travel makes me happy, and I am a person that lives in the moment. I also want to live a good life. Traveling makes everyday issues seem so much smaller and really changes my perspective on things.

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

#100. Everyday the opportunity exists to change your life. But most days, the idea of having to change the big things in life just seems like too much work. Should I lie on the couch and watch a movie, or shuld I confront my personal demons?

Jill Davis