#everyday

We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality. ↗

— Ethan Coen

#boring #everyday #helps #make #period

Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life. ↗

— Art Blakey

#dust #everyday #everyday life #life #music

A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#attitude #between #day #die #every

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#more #nothing #refinement #science #than

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. ↗

— Epicurus

#adversity #being #being happy #challenging #courage

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

#big #big event #bring #creates #drama

One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure... worried about the economy, worried about their jobs, worried about their kids' futures... actually the disconnect between the public and media discourse and people's everyday concerns has become bigger not smaller. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#actually #because #become #been #between

What the dead don't know piles up, though we don't notice it at first. They don't know how we're getting along without them, of course, dealing with the hours and days that now accrue so quickly, and, unless they divined this somehow in advance, they don't know that we don't want this inexorable onslaught of breakfasts and phone calls and going to the bank, all this stepping along, because we don't want anything extraneous to get in the way of what we feel about them or the ways we want to hold them in mind. ↗

— Roger Angell

#everyday-life #grief #life #memory #time

I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

#heroes #heroism #life #practicality #life

The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest. ↗

— George Eliot

#everyday-life #life