To walk into Bill Olsen's poems is to enter a mind so weirdly curious, you can't be released to sadness, not yet:… — Marianne Boruch Copy Share Image
Go back to The October Palace, which came out in 1994, and there are poems with windows, doors, the rooms of the… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
A 'truth' detached and purified of pleasures of ordinary life is not worth a damn in my view. Every grand theory and… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“When we find the crossing point between our attitude and what happens in our life, then we change ordinary life into a… — Ivinela Samuilova Copy Share Image
I have always said that it is completely about the music, and I have never been interested in anything else. I think… — Amy Macdonald Copy Share Image
“The more ordinary we live our life, the more extraordinary we become in time.” — Abhijit Naskar 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 have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
A man will blithely do in politics what he would kick a man downstairs for in ordinary life. — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery Copy Share Image
“And while it takes courage to achieve greatness, it takes more courage to find fulfillment in being ordinary. For the joys that… — Marilyn Thomsen 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
“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
I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own… — Caroline Myss 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
The fact that the patients were complex human beings with a rich life beyond the hospital never really sank into the consciousness… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“As soon as we freed ourselves from the mirage of hurrying time—which was nothing more than the projection of our own impatience—we… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life. — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
Zen is a totally different kind of religion. It brings humanness to religion. It is not bothered about anything superhuman; its whole… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Ordinary life surrounds me, and I am alone with these revelations.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“You have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead an ordinary life?” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“No day is an ordinary day; all days are extraordinary, because life itself is extraordinary!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“They have an ordinary life, full of ordinary things - if love can ever be called that.” — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image