Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a… — Rainer Werner Fassbinder 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
You may have living and habitual conversation in heaven, under the aspect of the most simple, ordinary life. Remember that holiness does… — Henry Edward Manning Copy Share Image
I went camping in the Maasai Mara and we moved site every night. I had no idea how spectacular it would be,… — Georgina Chapman Copy Share Image
I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And the face you step on while clawing your way out of an ordinary life may be the last one you see… — Per Hampton Copy Share Image
Ordinary life did not stop just because kings rose and fell, Mosca realized. People adapted. If the world turned upside down, everyone… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
I think what is probably hard for people to imagine is how wrapped up the 17 years' work on Harry Potter is… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
...we will arrange for 'religion' to become a small subdepartment of ordinary life; it will be quite safe - harmless, in fact… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although we tend to think about saints as holy and pious, and picture them with halos above their heads and ecstatic gazes,… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over.… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
Appreciation of life itself, becoming suddenly aware of the miracle of being alive, on this planet, can turn what we call ordinary… — Dan Wakefield Copy Share Image
In ordinary life, the phenomenology of embodied emotions is an excellent example for dynamic changes between transparency and opacity: You can "directly… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
“I know how you've always dreamed of an ordinary life, Caro, but why settle for ordinary when what we've got could be… — Jessica Hart 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
I think happiness is a choice. I believe luck is your attitude. It sounds like a really annoying bumper sticker. But there… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
“Ordinary life rewards a practical, unintrospective outlook. There's too little time and too much fear for anything else. We let ourselves be… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“But imagine,” said Mars, “being a comet. I want you to imagine a divine force in someone that pushes them through the… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
SIR,-Your letter of February the 18th came to hand on the 1st instant; and the request of the history of my physical… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“On the American desert are horses which eat the locoweed and some are driven made by it; their vision is affected, they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The hardest bones, containing the richest marrow, can be conquered only by a united crushing of all the teeth of all dogs.… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at unextraordinary times, to be of present, nothing-but-the-present,… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: Ordinary life becomes extraordinary,… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share Image
“If you're going to be a fucking rock star go be one. People don't want to see the guy next door on… — Lemmy Kilmister Copy Share Image
I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
Literary novelists who have a strong handle on plot are often characterized as good vacation reads because they manage to transport you… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
“If you don’t just want to live an ordinary life, then you will have to be intentional about converting all your time… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“I was twenty-six years old and I wasn't really sure about what I was. You probably wouldn't look at me twice. An… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
When I was very young, I thought the theatre was a place where higher beings went about their celestial business, as if… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
I love hearing other people's stories, and I freely admit I'm scavenging for material through their conversations, but really, at the same… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
I live a very ordinary life. The rare awards ceremonies I go to are quite fun, because I can enjoy the irony… — Jonathan Pryce Copy Share Image
Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
My benefactor said that when a man embarks on the paths of sorcery he becomes aware, in a gradual manner, that ordinary… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
