Top 1200 Ordinary Moments Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental.

Observe with both friend and foe the ordinary rules of courtesy.

Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary.

Faith has to be exercised in the midst of ordinary, down-to-earth living.

We're all so busy chasing the extraordinary that we forget to stop and be grateful for the ordinary.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

We spend so little time in the present moment that it's anything but ordinary.

Life has a funny way of becoming ordinary as soon as it can.

...ordinary people are capable of doing truly extraordinary things.

I love the idea of ordinary women making extraordinary sacrifices.

Ordinary women of grace are, in a sense, my real role models.

The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.

What is amazing is how we treat a meeting with God as ordinary or burdensome.

I want to help you decide that, by the power of God, you will not be ordinary.

The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me.

If I learned one thing, it is that self-doubt is one of the most destructive forces. It makes you defensive instead of open, reactive instead of active. Self-doubt is consuming and cruel. And my hope today is that we can all collectively agree to ban it. .?.?. Think to the moments of your life when you forgot to doubt yourself. When you were so inspired that you were just living and creating and working. Pay attention to those moments because they're trying to reach you through those lenses of doubt and trying to show you your potential.

What you dismiss as an ordinary coincidence may be an opening to an extraordinary adventure.

I always say that No Ordinary Family was the show that should've been.

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

Believing people can soar beyond ordinary life.

Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.

I just want to be treated like an ordinary legend.

Ordinary men commonly condemn what is beyond them.

Creativity is the ability to look at the ordinary and see the extraordinary.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

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

We all have weak moments, moments where we lose faith, but it's our flaws, our weaknesses that make us human. Science now performs miracles like the gods of old, creating life from blood cells or bacteria, or a spark of metal. But they're perfect creatures and in that way they couldn't be less human. There are things machines will never do, they cannot possess faith, they cannot commune with God. They cannot appreciate beauty, they cannot create art. If they ever learn these things, they won't have to destroy us, they'll be us.

You have to take the responsibility totally, that it is you who decides either to be in misery or to be in blessing. If you want misery, have more desires. If you want a blissfulness, then learn the art - even for few moments - of being desireless, and you will be surprised. Even for a few moments, if you are desireless, all anguish, all anxiety disappears. And you are so contented, so fulfilled, that you cannot ask for more. Your blessing is so much that you can only say that you bless the whole existence. Still it will be there. It is so much; it is overflowing.

Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.

The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can.

There’s nothing wrong with ordinary. I just prefer to shoot for extraordinary.

The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.

The 'great' commitment is so much easier than the ordinary everyday one.

If I want to experience the life of an ordinary person, I cannot do it in Asia.

I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.

Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities.

If one is experiencing poverty, practice ordinary and extreme generosity - this is the antidote.

Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.

The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.

We're just ordinary people. We don't know which way to go.

it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody

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

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

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

Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do.

I want a simple, ordinary life . . . like humans enjoy.

SEEK AND YOU WILL FIND. DON'T BE WILLING TO ACCEPT AN ORDINARY LIFE.

Our main source of psychic energy in the future will depend on our ability to understand this symbol of evolution in an acceptable context of interpretation. Only in the context of an emergent universe will the human project come to an integral understanding of itself. We must, however, come to experience the universe in its psychic as well as in its physical aspect. We need to experience the sequence of evolutionary transformations as moments of grace, and also as celebration moments in our new experience of the sacred.

In our prayer and meditation we hope for fulfilling ordinary life.

I believe Success is achieved by ordinary people with Extraordinary Determination.

Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size.

Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things.

Sometimes you need a special player to do something out of the ordinary.

A letter makes ordinary things seem important.

I’d rather be happy and odd than miserable and ordinary.

Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.

How can you do anything extraordinary by doing things the ordinary way?

He has no idea how beautiful the ordinary becomes once it disappears.