Virginia Woolf Quotes

Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.

Theory may be deliberate, as in a chapter on chemistry, or it may be second nature, as in the immemorial doctrine of ordinary enduring middle-sized physical objects.

The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.

We live in an age of miracles so commonplace that it can be difficult to see them as anything other than part of the daily texture of living

It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.

And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens out and brings to bloom the million-petalled flower of being here, in the world, with other people. Neither as hard as she had thought it might be nor as easy as it appeared.

Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.

We took off our clothes, and we were basically in a sphere of love and light and warmth, and the rest of the world disappeared. It was better than I ever could have dreamed, it was that thing I had been looking for, that love mixed with the rapture of sex.

The miracle is this: that you will rise in the morning and be able to see again the startling beauty of the day.

Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.

A miracle happened: another day of life.

A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such ordinary words, that he could never say the magic phrase which would open her being.

First, let us light the torch of our awareness and learn again how to drink tea, eat, wash dishes, walk, sit, drive, and work in awareness. We do not have to be swept along by circumstances. We are not just a leaf or a log in a rushing river. With awareness, each of our daily acts takes on a new meaning, and we discover that we are more than machines, that our activities are not just mindless repetitions. We find that life is a miracle, the universe is a miracle, and we too are a miracle.

Loving means being open to miracles, to victories and defeats, to everything that happens each day that was given us to walk upon the face of the Earth.

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.

Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.

every day a million miracles begin at sunrise!

The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.

Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.

Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of failure as in moments of ecstasy.

What I wanted to do seemed simple. I wanted something alive and shocking enough that it could be a morning in somebody's life. The most ordinary morning. Imagine, trying to do that.

O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.

Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.

We're as average as everyday's wash.

I just take every day is a miracle and I'm really glad that I'm still working and that people are not sick of me, even though even I'm sick of me a little bit.