It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
At a distance this fine oak seems to be of ordinary size. But if I place myself under its branches, the impression… — Eugene Delacroix 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
Before the first press pictures, the ordinary man would visualize only those events that took place near him, on his street or… — Gisele Freund Copy Share Image
Life gives to all the choice. You can satisfy yourself with mediocrity if you wish. You can be common, ordinary, dull, colorless,… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
An ordinary day. I get up early, drive to the airport, from there driving to the arena where we wrestle. Then if… — Chris Jericho Copy Share Image
While it is possible for intelligence to increase the range of benevolent impulse, and thus prompt a human being to consider the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus,… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
Joy is not a constant. It comes to us in moments - often ordinary moments. Sometimes we miss out on the bursts… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
We all travel the milky way together, trees and men; but it never occurred to me until this storm-day, while swinging in… — John Muir 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
What did you put in the fire?" Kaladin said. "To make that special smoke?" "Nothing. It was just and ordinary fire." "But,… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I always thought that one day I would be somebody. I would be successful in music, and I would have fans that… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I have great faith in 'ordinary parents.' Who has a child's welfare more at heart than his ordinary parent? It's been my… — Haim Ginott Copy Share Image
Please don't ask me for the actual answer to anything, because I don't have it. Because all I do is look at… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
In grades 1 through 4 these books introduce the child to U.S. society - to family life, community activities, ordinary economic transactions,… — Paul Vitz Copy Share Image
Now most people do not want an ordinary life in which they do a job well, earn the respect of their collaborators… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
What do we talk about? Just ordinary things. What happened today, or books we've read, or tomorrow's weather, you know. Don't tell… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Nimzovitch became then for me more or less the author of the only book which could help me get away from these… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
“We all have heard about ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary situations. They act courageously or responsibly, and their efforts are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A key difference between a dialogue and an ordinary discussion is that, within the latter people usually hold relatively fixed positions and… — David Copy Share Image
All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I asked a lot of friends and people I'd meet, "Can you tell me a story of a micro-aggression that happened to… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
I wish that some way could be found to add up all the staggering costs imposed on millions of ordinary people, just… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It's jarring to go from one amazing experience to another that feels ordinary. I don't quite know how to explain it. You… — Nat Wolff Copy Share Image
You see, years ago I was just an ordinary bee minding my own business, smelling flowers all day, and occasionally picking up… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure - stories, a way of speaking, a way… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
As far as executing work is concerned, you do it all in order. You do it in contractual order. There's no overlap,… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to… — Nursultan Nazarbayev Copy Share Image
You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only… — Cab Calloway Copy Share Image
A related recurring theme is the exploration of how we take for granted the things in our immediate environment that are common… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
In self-examination, take no account of yourself by your thoughts and resolutions in the days of religion and solemnity; examine how it… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God: but we have not. We have to be… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such ordinary words,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I'm a very, very modest person and with limited abilities. I do have the wish to succeed in anything I undertake, and… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
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