“When free from the confines of our normal identity, we are able to look at life, and the often repetitive stories we tell about it, with fresh eyes. Come Monday morning, we may still clamber back into the monkey suits of our everyday roles—parent, spouse, employee, boss, neighbor—but, by then, we know they’re just costumes with zippers.”— Steven Kotler
“…Jesus saw the eternal in the everyday. Your last day on earth should be spent as you spent all your others– doing your daily tasks with love and honesty… An ordinary day is, perhaps, the most holy of all.”— Margaret George
“There’s pathos in this familiar routine, in the sounds of homely objects touching surfaces. And in the little sigh she makes when she turns or slightly bends our unwieldy form. It’s already clear to me how much of life is forgotten even as it happens. Most of it. The unregarded present spooling away from us, the soft tumble of unremarkable thoughts, the long-neglected miracle of existence. When she’s no longer twenty-eight and pregnant and beautiful, or even free, she won’t remember the way she set down the spoon and the sound it made on slate, the frock she wore today, the touch of her sandal’s thong between her toes, the summer’s warmth, the white noise of the city beyond the house walls, a short burst of birdsong by a closed window. All gone, already.”— Ian McEwan
“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.”— Josef Pieper
“As long as there is thirst in you, water can quench it; but you can live a kind of life in which you never feel thirsty; do not go in the sun, do no manual work, stay at home and relax and you will not feel the thirst. But then you will find no joy in drinking water. He who toils all day, enjoys the bliss of a good night’s rest. This is ironical: if you want to enjoy the pleasure of a good night’s sleep you have to work like a labourer all day. The trouble is that you want to spend your days like an emperor and your nights like a labourer.”— Osho
“Things change everyday. With each new dawn, it is not the same world as before. And you’re not the same person you were either.”— Haruki Murakami
“The situation and the people you meet in everyday life are designed by God for your future. So follow Him because He alone knows what’s best for your well being.”— Latika Teotia