Top 1200 Mundane Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.

I always end up hurting myself doing something mundane. If I have to do some complicated stunt, I'm fine.

Voices and movements approach loss and remembrance profoundly, making poetry of the mundane and seasoning it with wit.

Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.

Huge numbers of embassy cables are labeled 'unclassified' or 'limited official use' and deal with mundane matters.

Normally, when you do a movie, you have those mundane days when it's like, 'Today is the scene where I get coffee.'

Grief reveals itself in the most mundane activities, like eating. It's never when you're looking at old pictures.

When I'm riding my bicycle I feel like a Buddhist who is happy just to enjoy his mundane existence

When you're a kid, you have no power. You're physically small and weak, and adults are constantly telling you what to do. So it's incredibly compelling to imagine yourself not only as someone to whom exciting things happen but as someone who is more than those around you. The problem is that then you begin to grow up and realize you're just a lowly muggle. … Is it possible that all of us, weaned on these stories, end up inevitably disappointed with mundane life as it actually exists?

Daddy was hilarious. He could take the most mundane event and tell it so that we all on the floor laughing. He trained me in the joys of humor.

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.

Sloppy language and sloppy ways go together. Those who are truly educated have learned more than the sciences, the humanities, law, engineering, and the arts. They carry with them a certain polish that marks them as loving the better qualities of life, a culture that adds luster to the mundane world of which they are apart, a patina that puts a quiet glow on what otherwise might be base metal.

To me, Twitter seems like a way for people to just let the world know about the most mundane bullshit that crosses their mind.

There's so much rich interaction with drivers that we take for granted. It seems like a mundane thing, but it turns out to be a really big deal.

A span of a few heartbeats can make for a greater memory than the sum of a mundane year.-Catti-brie

Try to pick a profession in which you enjoy even the most mundane, tedious parts. Then you will always be happy

The path to success is through a continuum of mundane, unsexy, unexciting, and sometimes difficult daily disciplines compounded over time

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.

You transform all who are touched by you. Mundane concerns, troubles, and sorrows dissolve in your presence, bringing JOY.

When I was a kid, I lived in this small town way out in the country. We had three TV channels and one radio station. I couldn't even get my hands on good comic books. My aunt, who is a librarian, gave me Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings," Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House on the Prairie," and Lewis's "The Chronicles of Narnia." They were such incredible treasures to have in my somewhat mundane country life.

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

She'd never have allowed herself to be held by anything as mundane as a few bars and a reinforced door

When you fuel up with purpose you find the excitement in the mundane, the passion in the everyday, the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art. The art of sacred living means being a holy actor, acting from the soul rather than the ego. The soul is out of space and time and hence always available, an ever-present potential of our being. It is up to each of us to celebrate and to actualize our being and to turn each meal, conversation, outfit, letter, and so on, into art. Every mundane activity is an opportunity for full authentic self-expression. The soul is our artistic self, our capacity for transforming every dimension of our lives into art and theater.

Alas, this mundane realm is never as fun as the one inside our minds. But we can endeavor to make it so.

Pulvis et umbra sumus. It's a line from Horace. 'We are dust and shadows'. Appropriate, don't you think?" Will said. "It's not a long life, killing demons; one tends to die young, and then they burn your body - dust to dust, in the literal sense. And then we vanish into the shadows of history, nary a mark on the page of a mundane book to remind the world that once we existed at all.

In all Gabriel’s life he could not remember his brother giving even the prettiest of Shadowhunter girls a second glance. Yet he looked at this scarred mundane servant as if she were the sun rising. It was inexplicable, but it was also undeniable. He could see the horror on his brother’s face as Sophie’s good opinion of him shattered before his eyes.

Elizabeth Turnage is a woman of grit and grace who lives into the stories of those who join her in this odd journey of seeking God. She honors the complexity of life without ever losing sight of the simple glory of the cross. Her grasp of the mundane and miraculous and their interplay gives a depth and honesty to her story that tugs at the heart and gives us hope our story can matter. Her book will be a clarion call to bring our broken, holy, troubled, and glorious life to the author of all stories: Jesus.

Music is the only thing in this world, with the exception of sneezing and looking at the sunset, that takes you to a place that's above the mundane. Everything else is just bullshit.

If I sit down to write a joke about, whatever, the polluted Gulf of Mexico, it comes out mundane to me.

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.

What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.

The comic edge of 'Ghostbusters' will always be the same. It's still treating the supernatural with a totally mundane sensibility.

We want to infuse our day with good habits so that we can turn seemingly mundane situations into a ceremony of goodness.

Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.

When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental — far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.

My job as a coach was to make something meaningful out of one of the most mundane activities on the planet: playing pro basketball.

Half the time your kids end up hating you for at least 5 of their teenage years[.] And don't ever expect anything so mundane as a thank you

This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and the endlessly repeated act, to derive deep gratification from the mundane.

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.

For me, beauty is synonymous with uniqueness . . . perfection is mundane, boring, and emotionless. It is by celebrating the differences in others that we can begin to accept our own individuality.

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.

As far as my favorite sites, I do a lot of mundane stuff on line because I travel so much.

God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions.

There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.

How important is excitement to happiness? The key is to get excited about the mundane-- not just extraordinary things

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.

Banning cash transactions over R3 lakh will allow banks to diversify their banking activities into new areas and not mundane ones.

Character cannot be summoned at the moment of crisis if it has been squandered by years of compromise and rationalization. The only testing ground for the heroic is the mundane. The only preparation for that one profound decision which can change a life, or even a nation, is those hundreds of half-conscious, self defining, seemingly insignificant decisions made in private. Habit is the daily battleground of character.

Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human condition.

Let us strive for personal, practical integrity in every endeavor, regardless of how mundane or inconsequential it may seem.

Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.

Truth is hidden by the golden veil of the mundane. Pierce through this thin glittering sheath and know that you are the Sun

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.

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.

My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due.

True greatness...always requires regular, consistent, small, and sometimes ordinary and mundane steps over a long period of time.

A postcolonial writer who has often been credited with mixing the mundane with the magical, and history with fiction, is Salman Rushdie.

As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.