It’s a gift to joyfully recognize and accept our own smallness and ordinariness. Then you are free with nothing to live up… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical. — Trent Parke Copy Share Image
“The Virtue and unpretentiousness of the wise man, which I am talking about, goes unnoticed because of its transparent ordinariness.” — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
We have a 'now you see Him, now you don't' God. We have Himself clothed in visions, in dreams, in metaphors, in… — Luci Shaw Copy Share Image
I thought if only I had a keen, shapely bone structure to my face or could discuss politics shrewdly or was a… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
What we grieve for is not the loss of a grand vision, but rather the loss of common things, events and gestures....… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
“There is, indeed, nothing more vexing than to be, for example, rich, of good family, of decent appearance, fairly well educated, not… — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness.… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“Simple things are found in ordinariness - but extraordinariness lives inside things that are loved.” — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
“Life, we imagine, is familiar enough until we begin to tell it to another. Then, observe the wonder on their faces--sometimes it… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
It's simple ... go the extra mile and you will stand out from the crowd — Robin Crow Copy Share Image
In 1976, Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer; carried his own suitcase, imagine that - somewhat tapped America's durable but shallow reservoir of… — George Will Copy Share Image
“She was just ordinary. From her horse's-mane hair to her sturdy, practical feet, she'd never turned men's heads. Oh, she wasn't ill-favored-… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
The most beautiful lives, to my mind, are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness. — Ursus Wehrli Copy Share Image
For me, Superman's greatest contribution has never been the superhero part: it's the Clark Kent part - the idea that any of… — Brad Meltzer Copy Share Image
When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
“It's like I'm trying to distract him with something shiny." Cath circled her spoon hand in front of her face, accidentally flicking… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“How did I get so bogged down in ordinariness that even this once I couldn't do the spontaneous thing, the thing I… — Brian Moore Copy Share Image
Maybe we all just want to feel special, even for a little while, to be fooled for a bit into feeling something… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
In novels, I said, people are transfigured by love. They’re elevated, made different, lifted out of their ordinariness…It’s not so much to… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
Expectations are usually predicated on the idea that the everyday things that happen to ordinary people shouldn't happen to you. People hold… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
“For a moment I felt a vicious hatred for him and his quiet ways, his mundane stroll through the summer, his ordinariness,… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
