Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The term 'charisma' will be applied to a certain quality of an individual personality by virtue of which he is considered extraordinary… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present,… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do. — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
The simple act of an ordinary courageous man is not to take part, not to support lies! Let that come into the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
A good life happens when you stop and are grateful for the ordinary moments that so many of us just steamroll over… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
The psychical condition of men's minds may be compared with a set of bells close together, and so arranged that in the… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
I want to help you decide that, by the power of God, you will not be ordinary. — Smith Wigglesworth Copy Share Image
In a word, removing control farther away from the ordinary citizen and taxpayer is tantamount to giving the intelligent, far-sighted and public… — Edward Alsworth Ross Copy Share Image
Take care with manufactured chemicals, certainly. Your safety and long term health are more important than anything. Yet don't forget that if… — Janet Macunovich Copy Share Image
When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. — Marie Angelique Arnauld Copy Share Image
Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I've never been obsessed by how I looked. In fact, I would rather have looked more ordinary so I could play more… — Marian Seldes Copy Share Image
It's not racism per se but the tyranny of normalcy - no: the tyranny of attractive normalcy. Which leads to loveable white… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
I think that the ordinary bloke has an instinctive sense that it wouldn't be too bad if the weather warmed up. — Nigel Lawson Copy Share Image
How can you do anything extraordinary by doing things the ordinary way? — Ryan Buell Copy Share Image
The artist of the future will live the ordinary life of a human being, earning his living by some kind of labour.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The importance of the ordinary citizen is very greatly underestimated - not so much by those in authority as by the ordinary… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing. — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
