Routine Of Daily Life Quotes

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Akira Toriyama
“Move well, study well, play well, eat well, rest well - That is the turtle master way!”
Akira Toriyama, Dragon Ball, Vol. 1

Enock Maregesi
“Usipobadilisha maisha yako maisha yako yatakubadilisha.”
Enock Maregesi

Annie Baker
“Lauren: Hey. Um. This is kind of a weird - but do you ever wonder how many times your life is gonna end?

A pause.

Schultz: Uh... I'm not sure I know what / you--

Lauren: Like how many people you're...like how many times your life is gonna totally change and then, like, start all over again? And you'll feel like what happened before wasn't real and what's happening now is actually... (she trails off)”
Annie Baker, The Vermont Plays

Georges Perec
“Leur vie était comme une trop longue habitude, comme un ennui presque serein : une vie sans rien.”
Georges Perec, Les Choses

J. Yuvanesh
“Somewhere between work and hunger we have misplaced ourselves from living our lives.”
J. Yuvanesh, What life is all about?

Carol Shields
“The men, her husband and sons, leave for the quarry at seven o'clock sharp and return at five. What do they imagine she does all day? It makes her shiver to think of it, how not one pair of eyes can see through the roof and walls of her house and regard her as she moves through her dreamlike days, bargaining from minute to minute with indolence, that tempter.”
Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries

“Happy people do not wake up for breakfast.”
Tetiana Liubetska

J. Yuvanesh
“At last we reach a point in our lives where we have gone through so many things that we are no longer worried about our dreams or comfort or happiness, and are merely trying to survive.”
J. Yuvanesh, What life is all about?

Todd Stocker
“Your morning routine generates a 10x return for good or for bad. Make it good.”
Todd Stocker, Becoming The Fulfilled Leader

“As I watched the sun began its daily routine, casting golden hue and illuminating cities, I wondered, “what an exemplary way to start my daily routine?”
Val Uchendu

Neda Aria
“For how long would I be trapped in the condition of melancholy without going insane?”
Neda Aria

Johanna Sinisalo
“But the way an eloi has to darken her eyelashes every morning, cover her skin with colored cream, powder her nose and forehead all day so it doesn't shine, freshen her lipstick over and over, and then take it all off at night. It's like the myth of Sisyphus in Hades, rolling the rock up the hill just to watch it roll down again.”
Johanna Sinisalo, The Core of the Sun

Victoria Schwab
“Every day is amber, and she is the fly trapped inside.”
V.E. Schwab

Amor Towles
“But for most people, it doesn't matter where they live. When they get up in the morning they're not looking to change the world. They want to have a cup of coffee and a piece of toast, put in their eight hours, and wrap up the day with a bottle of beer in front of the TV set. More or less it's what they'd be doing whether they lived in Atlanta, Georgia, or Nome, Alaska. And if it doesn't matter for most people where they live, it certainly doesn't matter where they're going.”
Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway

“Routine is rather like the egg whites in a batter: It imparts little flavor, but it holds everything together.”
Josiah Bancroft, Arm of the Sphinx

“Dreams? Yours are skewed versions of your everyday reality. Of Java, Oracle and servers, greasy subway trains and skyscrapers. You do fall off the precipice sometimes, naked, fly into three-dimensional turquoise oceans. At times you see pixels around you. Sperms. Electrons and black holes, the matrix, 0’s and 1’s, polarised light.”
Sindhu Rajasekaran, So I Let It Be

“Mistake is part of what makes us human.
But what is not normal is seeing it as an healthy routine.”
Ojingiri Hannah

Margarita García Robayo
“How quickly the shell of a routine is shattered.
Any routine, however solid it may be, is obliterated by the unexpected.”
Margarita García Robayo, La encomienda

Marc Arginteanu
“Routine lends a veneer of normalcy to even the most terrible situation.”
Marc Arginteanu, of Paint and Pancakes