95 Quotes About Everyday-life

  • Author Shirley Jackson
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    The twins were loitering over their cereal, and Mrs. Walpole, with one eye on the clock and the other on the kitchen window past which the school bus would come in a matter of minutes, felt the unreasonable irritation that comes with being late on a school morning, the wading-through-molasses feeling of trying to hurry children.

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  • Author Monica A. Coleman
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    A postmodern womanist theology can explain why salvation is found both among black women braiding hair in a church on a rainy night and black women dancing to a drumbeat in an old warehouse on a sunny Sunday morning.

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  • Author Josef Pieper
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    It is possible to pray in such a way that one does not transcend the world, in such a way that the divine is degraded to a functional part of the workaday world... then it is no longer devotion to the divine, but an attempt to master it.

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  • Author Francois Mauriac
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    She [Thérèse] believed that the sublime splendour of ordinary existence was hidden from those who lived embedded in it, that for them the bread of every day must lose its savour. Only hearts like hers, fated to bear an infinite frustration, could feed on its intolerable absence.

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  • Author Tove Jansson
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    This has completely disturbed my peace," he complained. "A philosopher should be protected against the rude happenings of everyday life.""Never mind," said Moominmamma, consolingly. "You'll soon feel better.""But I do mind," said the Muskrat peevishly. "Never any peace ... " And he mumbled on.

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