In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?
The point of the daily diary exercise is not to record what you already know about what happened to you in the last 24 hours. Instead, it’s an invitation to the back of your mind to come forward and reveal to you the perishable images about the day you didn’t notice you noticed at all.
If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade and a hoe to uproot it. It is just so, I think, when we commit a fault, however small, each day, and do not cure ourselves of it.
I pray daily for wisdom on how to serve my kids without words.
I live with that contradiction daily. It is a constant struggle. I struggle very deeply. I don't think I've said this to anyone, but I've wondered if I just want to give up this world and live in the Congo and just be there. But I don't think that's what they need from me
You know the John Lennon song 'Imagine'? 'Imagine no possessions, no religion'? That's what it was like in Cambodia. The only thing people had was a spoon, for eating the daily pourridge. And that pourridge was grossly insufficient for the work they were made to do in the fields.
Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.
Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.
Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.
The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.
This commonplace cycle of falling asleep and waking, in darkness, under private cover, with another creature, a pale soft tender mammal, putting faces together in a ritual of affection, briefly settled in the eternal necessities of warmth, comfort, safety, crossing limbs to draw nearer - a simple daily consolation, almost too obvious, easy to forget by daylight.
We often engage the defense mechanism of tunnel vision, just to keep ourselves focused on our daily lives. This makes us terribly jaded in our perception of what is really around us.
Poems can't help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record of my daily life.
I go to the gym, I swim daily and from time to time I meet with friends and do extra-curricular stuff.
Let us daily strive to copy our Saviour's humility.
Small daily - seemingly insignificant - improvements and innovations lead to staggering achievements over time.
My web site is so fresh. The paint is still wet, but stay tuned, because I have lots of personal things, specifically about what is happening day-to-day, that I will keep updating daily.
Your daily behavior reveals your deepest beliefs.
Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.
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.