“A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules.”

“The thing is plain. All that men really understand is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture.”

“It’s the small acts that you do on a daily basis that turn two people from a ‘you and I’ into an ‘us.”

“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”

“Why not make a daily pleasure out a daily necessity.”

“There is a fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration; there are daily small deaths.”

“O Rāma, the noble son of Kausalyā! The Sandhyā of the morning commences. O the lion amongst men! Arise, the Vedic daily tasks are to be performed.”

“Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?”

“I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am. Against the daily death the iconography of wings.”

“We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.”