Chogyam Trungpa Quotes

When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.

How many people just get up on Monday and do the same thing they've done every single Monday - go to work and just turn on route automatic and no longer have any meaning in their life?

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

I train and I go home, and when I'm home, I think about training. That's my life every day, and that's it.

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.

Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear.

I wasn't losing my focus but I was getting tired of focusing. What I was focusing on was becoming too routine, too ritual, not something that was interesting, new and exciting.

We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens.

I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.

I feel like I'm so normal. So normal it's boring.

I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.

Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.

I think we were all frustrated with our daily routine.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

Some men like a dull life - they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it - it's often catching.

There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.

I prize being just a normal dude that wakes up, goes to work, comes home to his wife - like, quite boring.

My day-to-day local issues are rooted in an underlying fear of death.

It's so easy to get caught up in the demands of life. And we all take refuge at times in routines and recliners and 'usual' anything!

I don't like travelling. Which is ridiculous. And it's not because I'm afraid of dying on the plane or anything. I just like to stay at home.

If I sat around thinking about acting all day, I'd lose my mind.

The thing about tennis life is that it's the same thing every day. You train. You come back to the hotel. You get treatment. You eat. You sleep. You get up.

I go from day to day and game to game.

I was born and raised in Denver, went to school there, went to college there, and I've been on the same team for seven years, and I kind of found myself going through the motions a little bit.

Frankly, I am boring. My life is all about the film set, gym classes, and home.