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“On my fortieth birthday, rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a midlife crisis I decided it might be more interesting to actually terrify them by going completely mad and declaring myself to be a magician.”

Might Interesting My Friends Decided Crisis Mad Bores Magician Mundane Declaring Midlife Midlife Crisis

Author:Alan Moore

“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.”

“It's the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is.”

World Trying Shows Special Hardest Hardest Thing Mundane

Author:Eve Arnold

“In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.”

Sacred Mundane Sacredness

Author:Dogen

“Posterity will call you the great emancipator, a more enviable title than any crown could be, and greater than any merely mundane treasure.”

Greater Treasure Titles Crowns Posterity Mundane

Author:Giuseppe Garibaldi

“I want to be honest about the world that we live in, and sometimes my political persuasions come through in my work. Fashion can be really racist, looking at the clothes of other cultures as costumes. . . . That’s mundane and it’s old hat. Let’s break down some barriers.”

World Want Sometimes Political Culture Break Honest Fashion Clothes Being Honest Hats Barriers Racist Persuasion Costumes Breaking Down Mundane Other Cultures

Author:Alexander McQueen

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

Want Turns Situation Habit Goodness Ceremony Mundane Good Habits

Author:Sakyong Mipham

“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.”

World Music This World Musician Music Is Sunset Exception Bullshit Mundane Rock Music Funny Music Sneezing

Author:Stephan Jenkins

“Satanism is not a white light religion; it is a religion of the flesh, the mundane, the carnal - all of which are ruled by Satan, the personification of the Left Hand Path.”

Hands Light Left White Path Flesh Satan Mundane Left Hand Personification Satanism White Light

Author:Anton Szandor LaVey

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

Too Much Activity Concern Insight Stakes Mundane Detrimental

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.”

World Wonder Magic Mystery Strange Ordinary Infinite Sacred Extraordinary Senses Familiar Educate Finite Mundane Wonder Of The World

Author:Novalis

“The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.”

Wells Hands Desire Ability Materials Baby Birth Claims Collaboration Mundane Single Parent New Baby

Author:Gary Lucas

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

Voice Loss Movement Approach Wit Remembrance Mundane Seasoning

Author:Deborah Jowitt

“Whether we are poets or parents or teachers or artists or gardeners, we must start where we are and use what we have. In the process of creation and relationship, what seems mundane and trivial may show itself to be a holy, precious part of a pattern.”

May Use Shows Seems Artist Process Parent Healing Teacher Creation Poet Holy Patterns Gardener Mundane

Author:Luci Shaw

“I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life.”

Way Ordinary Obligation Mundane Mundane Life

Author:Martha Reeves

“Always live your life with one dream to fulfill. No matter how many of your dreams you have realized in the past, always have a dream to go. Because when you stop dreaming, life becomes a mundane existence.”

Matter Dream Past Existence Your Dreams Live Your Life Mundane Dreams You Have Stop Dreaming

Author:Sara Henderson

“Much of life appears mundane at the time. Yet in God's providence every moment includes significant details arranged by His divine hand.”

Moments Hands Divine Details Significant Providence Mundane

Author:Dillon Burroughs

“Marriage isn't a passion-fest; it's more like a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane, and often boring nonprofit business. And I mean this in a good way.”

Way Mean Running Passion Boring Partnership Mundane Good Way Nonprofits

Author:Lori Gottlieb

“I know well the delectable thrill of moving into a new house somewhere altogether else, in somebody else’s county, where the climate is different, the food is different, the light is different, where the mundane preoccupations of life at home don’t seem to apply and it is even fun to go shopping.”

Knows Wells Different Home Light Seems Moving House Fun Climate Shopping Thrill Mundane County Preoccupation Delectable

Author:Jan Morris

“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.”

Love Inspirational Needs Peace Humility Emotional Arms Forgiveness Consideration Bows Mundane Life Altering Emotional Needs

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Nothing about his life is more strange to [man] or more unaccountable in purely mundane terms than the stirrings he finds in himself, usually fitful but sometimes overwhelming, to look beyond his animal existence and not be fully satisfied with its immediate substance. He lacks the complacency of the other animals: he is obsessed by pride and guilt, pride at being something more than a mere animal, built at falling short of the high aims he sets for himself.”

Men Looks Sometimes Life Is Fall Term Animal Existence Strange Pride Built Aim Guilt Mere Satisfied Substance Obsessed Overwhelming Complacency Mundane Stirring

Author:Lewis Mumford

“It may arrive in the instant when we are doing something mundane, like putting our front-door key in the lock; it may lie hidden in the quiet that follows the lunch hour or in the thousand and one things that all seem the same to us.”

Life Inspirational May Seems Lying Hours Doors One Thing Fronts Inspirational Life Keys Thousand Quiet Instant Lunch Locks Mundane Front Doors

Book:By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness

“What is particularly intriguing, in fact, is that whereas many peoples tend to locate this experience (of the sacred) in certain unusual, if not 'supernatural' moments and circumstances . . . the Oriental focus is upon mystery in the most obvious, ordinary, mundane-the most natural-situations of life.”

Ifs Life Moments Facts Certain Natural Situation Focus Mystery Circumstances Ordinary Sacred Obvious Unusual Mundane Intriguing

Author:Conrad Hyers

“The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions.”

Life Giving Made Life Is Joy Victory Satisfaction Obscure Mundane Joy Of Life

Author:Billy Joel

“In the end, all worlds, whether they're set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fictions. Sure, you don't got to do too much work to build a mundane world, but don't get it twisted: you still got to do some work.”

World Stills Ends Today Fiction Too Much Twisted Jersey Mundane New Jersey Too Much Work

Author:Junot Diaz

“Advantage comes not from the spectacular or the technical. Advantage comes from a persistent seeking of the mundane edge.”

Motivational Advantage Edges Seeking Persistent Spectacular Mundane

Author:Tom Peters

“A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.”

May Concerned Theater Creator Theatre Release Dramatic Aesthetic Enlightening Mundane

Book:Writing in restaurants

Source: Writing in restaurants

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

Needs Justice Protect Speech Protection Free Speech Comforting Mundane Outrageous Controversial Platitudes

Author:Colin Powell

“A life without love is of no account. Don't ask yourself what kind of love you should seek, spiritual or material, divine or mundane, Eastern or Western. Divisions only lead to more divisions. Love has no labels, no definitions. It is what it is, pure and simple. “Love is the water of life. And a lover is a soul of fire! “The universe turns differently when fire loves water.”

“There’s a strange quality in stop-motion photography, like in King Kong, that adds to the fantasy. If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane.”

Ifs Real Sometimes Quality Fantasy Strange Kings Photography Add Mundane King Kong Too Real

Author:Ray Harryhausen

“If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane.”

Ifs Real Sometimes Mundane King Kong Too Real

Author:Ray Harryhausen

“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”

Years Ends Kids Hate Half Teenage Hate You Mundane Teenage Years

Author:Donna Ball

“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.”

Differences Accepting Perfection Individuality Boring Celebrate Uniqueness Mundane

Author:Kevyn Aucoin

“We need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet... I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things... all of it, all of the time, every day. You're saying 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness'.”

“Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions.”

Facts Fantasy Bases Conclusion Mundane

Author:Amory Lovins

“It's funny how something so normal and mundane that you see every day-your body-can be controversial. The shock value is intense. It's like carrying an art piece around with you all the time.”

Art Body Values Pieces Normal Your Body Intense Shock Mundane Controversial Shock Value

Author:Beth Ditto

“If our children are going to walk away from Christ, we need to raise them in such a way that they understand that to walk away from Jesus is to walk away from a life of faith, risk and adventure and to choose a life that boring, mundane and ordinary”

Ifs Way Needs Children Jesus Christ Walks Risk Adventure Ordinary Our Children Raises Boring Mundane

Author:Erwin McManus

“In India even the most mundane inquiries have a habit of ending this way. There may be two answers, there may be five, a dozen or a hundred; the only thing that is certain is that all will be different.”

Way May Two Different Certain Answers Five Habit Hundred India Dozen Inquiry Mundane

Book:Slowly Down the Ganges

Source: Slowly Down the Ganges

“What will you do in the mundane days of faithfulness?”

Faithfulness Mundane

Author:Martin Luther

“When you see something or experience something extraordinary, you can't go back to normal... I think that that's the way I see the supernatural-as happening in mundane circumstances or to people who are unprepared.”

People Thinking Way Circumstances Normal Happenings Extraordinary Mundane Unprepared

Author:Guillermo del Toro

“I want to see the church get closer to the people. I want to get rid of clericalism, the mundane, this closing ourselves off within ourselves, in our parishes, schools or structures. Because these need to get out!”

People Want Needs School Church Structure Closing Mundane Parish

Author:Pope Francis

“It is vital that we serve each other in the kingdom. . . . So often, our acts of service consist of simple encouragement or of giving . . . help with mundane tasks, but what glorious consequences can flow . . . from small but deliberate deeds!”

Giving Helping Simple Consequence Flow Tasks Encouragement Deeds Kingdoms Glorious Deliberate Mundane Giving Help Acts Of Service

Book:The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Source: The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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

Joy Trouble Sorrow Concern Touched Mundane Your Presence Bringing Joy

Author:Rumi

“Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.”

Difficult Truth Is Meaningful Telling The Truth Cheating Routes Mundane Meaningful Life

Author:Donald Miller

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

Feels Enjoy Existence Buddhist Riding Mundane Bicycle

Author:Robin Williams

“Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the needs and activities of our mundane lives. But few would deny that there is another dimension of human existence which transcends the mundane: call it the soul, the spirit: it is that part of the human frame which sees the shimmer of the numinous.”

“Your non attachment to the mundane is your charm. Your attachment to the divine is your beauty.”

Divine Charm Attachment Mundane

Book:Celebrating Silence

Source: Celebrating Silence

“There simply aren't any grand moments in life, and we surely don't live in those moments. No, we live in the utterly mundane. We exist in the bathrooms, bedrooms, living rooms, and hallways of life. This is where the character of our life is set. This is where we live the life of faith.”

Moments Character Life Is Rooms Our Lives Live Life Bedroom Bathroom Mundane Living Room Hallways

Author:Paul David Tripp

“When you are in the mundane from what is deeper than your self, you realize the mundane to be more than your self, and your self opens. It opens in its structuring and in its form, enabling you as the form of your self to move in the deeper levels of the mundane”

Self Moving Form Realizing Levels Deeper Mundane Enabling

Author:John de Ruiter

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

Important Keys Extraordinary Excited Excitement Mundane Extraordinary Things

Author:Dennis Prager

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