Top 1200 Ordinary Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

If you don't have a way to speak to ordinary Americans, you're not in the game.

Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary.

When we trust God, He can make the ordinary extraordinary!

Ordinary people can bring about change.

At the very least, my tastes are out of the ordinary.

I'm an ordinary Hackney boy, and I can talk to people.

Anything can happen in this world, for an ordinary girl

I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more.

When you are happy you are ordinary, because to be happy is just to be natural. To be miserable is to become extraordinary. Nothing is special in being happy - trees are happy, birds are happy, animals are happy, children are happy. What is special in that? It is just the usual thing in existence. Existence is made of the stuff called happiness. Just look! - can't you see these trees?...so happy. Can't you see the birds singing?...so happily. Happiness has nothing special in it. Happiness is a very ordinary thing.

... he felt himself to be one of them, who can live neither in the world nor out of it. They are a kind of sick people, whose desire for God makes them unsatisfactory citizens of an ordinary life, but whose strength or temperament fails them to surrender the world completely; and present-day society, with its hurried pace and its mechanical and technical structure, offers no home to these unhappy souls.

In order to find our bearings in the spiritual worlds and see truly what is there for us to see, we need a further inner trait in our character, a quality I should like to term 'presence of mind.' In ordinary life, this is the trait we need when faced with a situation that requires us to make an immediate decision without hesitation.

If we do the ordinary, God will add an extra to it.

For example, John Law's Mississippi Company venture printed shares, and the money had gone up in smoke when it had been inscribed objects. The inscription made it magic and changed its meaning. That's how objects become charmed in The Arabian Nights, and they are often originally ordinary objects. The carpet is an ordinary, paltry object. The lamp is a rusty old lamp, and the bottles jinns are imprisoned within are old bottles. They are changed by the magic and the jinn's presence, and the jinn's presence is often embodied in the seal or inscription.

I just want to be treated like an ordinary legend.

We want to see a struggle. We want to see people falling over but getting themselves back up on their feet, and that's what's extraordinary- ordinary people and their struggle. There's nothing as interesting as real life out your window. You walk down the street for half an hour, I'll give you half an hour of drama.

I'm just an ordinary person who has an extraordinary job.

The greatest dread of ordinary man is death, with its rude imposition interrupting fortuitous plans and fondest attachments with an unknown and unwelcome change. The yogi is a conqueror of the grief associated with death. By control of mind and life force and the development of wisdom, he makes friends with the change of consciousness called death-he becomes familiar with the state of inner calmness and aloofness from identification with the mortal body.

For I'm afraid of loneliness; shiveringly, terribly afraid. I don't mean the ordinary physical loneliness, for here I am, deliberately travelled away from London to get to it, to its spaciousness and healing. I mean that awful loneliness of spirit that is the ultimate tragedy of life. When you've got to that, really reached it, without hope, without escape, you die. You just can't bear it, and you die.

Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.

I’m an ordinary girl who believed in her dream.

Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.

We must strive to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Ordinary people want good government.

Find a perspective that transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.

I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

A distinctly ordinary player of extraordinary dirtiness.

I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.

The extraordinary lies in the path of ordinary people.

Go on loving what is good, simple, and ordinary.

No Ordinary American Cares About Their Constitutional Rights

Ordinary faithfulness leads to extraordinary impact.

An expert is an ordinary fellow from another town.

The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes.... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict.

Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses.

An expert is an ordinary fella away from home.

Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.

The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of like is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give.

Sometimes during the day, I consciously focus on some ordinary object and allow myself a momentary "paying-attention." This paying-attention gives meaning to my life. I don't know who it was, but someone said that careful attention paid to anything is a window into the universe. Pausing to think this way, even for a brief moment, is very important. It gives quality to my day.

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to force oneself to act as though one did not have them in circumstances where a duty makes it imperative; and in the ordinary course of life one has to know these weaknesses, prudently take them into account, and strive to turn them to good purpose; for they are all capable of being put to some good purpose.

I am a very ordinary singer who doesn't even do riyaz.

And she is your holy Mary. And I am so ordinary.

I think what I like to do is to begin with the ordinary and find the extraordinary in it.

When you consciously choose to be ordinary, you become extraordinary.

You know what's cool? My kids think I'm ordinary.

I am an ordinary woman from a Tamil family.

You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows.

To some extent, this urge to break out of the ordinary is present in every generation. Part of being young is desiring something beyond everyday life and a secure job, a yearning for something really truly greater. Is this simply an empty dream that fades away as we become older? No! Men and women were created for something great, for infinity. Nothing else will ever be enough.

As soon as it is seen, the extraordinary starts becoming ordinary!

I can play CDs and I can use an ordinary mobile.

My central focus is creating employment for the ordinary citizen.

Everybody has had the experience of something they love - whether it's a pop song or a painting or a movie - feeling so perfect to them that it's almost like it came from another planet. It has nothing to do with ordinary life, which is very plain. And there's something depressing about that in a way, because you feel like you're this small little human, and you feel like it has nothing to do with you.

There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have.

You can find the sacred in the most ordinary of things.

Ordinary People Attain Extraordinary Success - You Can Too!

It is best for ordinary men to have only one wife !

We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

The opportunity for greater courage comes in the most ordinary of moments.

I'm not that big a celebrity. I'm just an ordinary person.

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.