The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things. — Veronique Vienne Copy Share Image
In general, when you travel, you get into a different reality and are able to more accurately reflect on your ordinary life.… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
“The most precious moments of war are the moments where the soldiers remember their ordinary calm lives before the war!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“All he had to do was solve the mystery of the universe, which may be difficult but is not as difficult as… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.” — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Have you ever known a moment of bliss? ... Yet behold, only a little later, scarcely an hour gone by, and the… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
“There were moments when Hilary saw life as tending always towards chaos, when it seemed that all one could be asked was… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I have never settled for the notion of being an ordinary person living an ordinary life. I have always believed in and… — Trinity Chasara Copy Share Image
Gratitude is the key that opens up the gateway of your heart that allows the untapped and inspiring potential of love to… — John Frederick Demartini Copy Share Image
“The thing I realize, though, the longer and longer I stay sober, is that the bigger injustice would not be a life… — Brendan Leonard Copy Share Image
In ordinary life, we are not aware of the unity of all things, but divide the world into separate objects and events.… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
“For the average person leading an ordinary life, fame holds an hypnotic attraction. Many would sooner perish than exist in anonymity. But… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
Let This Voice Be Heard fulfills the mandate of biography at its best because Maurice Jackson has captured the history of a… — David Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a full human being and one's existence as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Am I right in suggesting that ordinary life is a mean between these extremes, that the noble man devotes his material wealth… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
That odd capacity for destitution, as if by nature we ought to have so much more than nature gives us. As if… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“The struggle of the artist against the art-ideology, against the creative impulse and even against his own work also shows itself in… — Otto Rank Copy Share Image
“My foot slips on a narrow ledge; in that split second, as needles of fear pierce heart and temples, eternity intersects with… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Their example gives witness to the fact that baptism commits Christians to participate boldly in the spread of the Kingdom of God,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“All he knew and felt was that what was happening was what had happened nearly a year before in the hotel of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Too often critics have taken as the sole and crucial matter of fantasy the preoccupation of Tolkien, the quest for a remedy… — Roz Kaveney Copy Share Image
“Dumbledore's plan works well in giving Harry protection from the external danger of Voldemort. The plan also gives him an ordinary life.… — Luke Bell Copy Share Image
Art and music shine a light of meaning on ordinary life, and through them we are able to confront the things that… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I went to boarding school, and then I went to Oxford, and I know how easy it is for certain groups of… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Marriage is primarily an economic arrangement, an insurance pact. It differs from the ordinary life insurance agreement only in that it is… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Jessie was trying to read science fiction but nothing she read so far could begin to match ordinary life on this planet,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“You only live at once." Which seemed to her all the more reason to be careful, to take it easy, to have… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
In this life, your so-called ordinary life, you must be rooted; and in your inner space, in the spiritual life, you must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In our heads, only people with celebrity status, glamour and bling pop out as people who have stories. I find the ordinary… — Tisca Chopra Copy Share Image
“The wretchedness of ordinary life, endured so gaily when it is part of our normal existence, is made far worse when it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there. — Petronius Copy Share Image
“Spirituality means to me living the ordinary life extraordinarily well. As the old-church father said, 'The glory of God is a human… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
One of the difficulties about interviewing people in Rwanda is that the country is trying to get on with ordinary life and… — Tony Greig Copy Share Image
“There was a time when I didn’t seem to need such things, when I would have been amused and perhaps even vaguely… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
