Upamanyu Chatterjee Quotes

When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters.

Think twice; it's just another day for you and me in paradise.

.I think daily life is the most beautiful and wonderful thing that anyone can have.

When you realize you're alive, you can live life!

It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things.

It means a lot in my business and its a wonderful feeling to be recognized for what you have done over a lifetime, but I didn't go crazy. I still eat my cereal in the morning, have a sandwich in the afternoon, go to bed at night. You know, nothing really different.

Sometimes I'll think, 'That was a really nice day. I ate well, I exercised, I called some friends, wasn't working too hard,' but I rarely have one of those.

As I walk to my office every morning, I know I stand on the shoulders of those who came before me.

Every day is quite unique, which is one of my favorite things!

I think that we are blessed to live here in Canada.

The thing that made me happy is you live to see the next day and you get an opportunity to do it again.

I wake up every day and give my thanks.

One appreciates that daily life is really good when one wakes from a horrible dream, or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?

The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course. The world would become religious overnight. We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God. Instead, the stars come out every night, and we watch television.

Our days weave together the simple pleasures of daily life, which we should never take for granted, and the higher pleasures of Art and Thought which we may now taste as we please, with none to forbid or criticise.

She would consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.

Ya gotta live somewhere, but also you GET to live somewhere.

I would like to explain that I consider prayer above all an act of gratitude for existence.

That state of mind - of being beside yourself - is wonderful. As you get older, you're just very aware of a sense of an ending. You're grateful for every day.

Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day.

It's a great day! And if you don't think it's a great day, just try missing one.

I wondered why I hadn't loved that day more, why I hadn't savored every bit of it...why I hadn't known how good it was to live so normally, so everyday. But you only know that, I suppose, after it's not normal and every day any longer.

Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.

We tend to take a great deal for granted, because you feel like you're going to live forever. It's only if you lose a friend, or maybe have a near-death experience, [that] many events and people in your life suddenly attain real significance.