“I want to observe the ordinary things of earth—the moon, the stars, the rainbows, even the yellow leaves of the old cherry… — Christie Purifoy Copy Share Image
“But reason... tells us that merely with repetition the extraordinary becomes ordinary, and only briefly abandoned, what had once passed for a… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Illegitimacy is important for the socialisation of little girls and especially little boys. If you have large numbers of young men growing… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
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 trick is to maintain a kind of naïve amazement at each instant of experience - but, as Montaigne learned, one of… — Sarah Bakewell Copy Share Image
Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. — Marie Angelique Arnauld Copy Share Image
“For the first time in his life he was unable to think of himself as existing the next day. There would be… — L.P. Hartley Copy Share Image
“We can not all love in the same way - for the feeling would be called ordinariness instead. And of that, the… — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
We bless the life around us far more than we realize. Many simple, ordinary things that we do can affect those around… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
“What would you do if you saw something nobody else could see?” The tape gun fell out of Luke’s hand, and hit… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“What is it? The ordinary is EXTRAORDINARY. The ordinary is extraordinary. The ordinary is the thing we want back when someone we… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity. — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
“That's the curious thing about love, isn't it? It makes very ordinary things seem special. It makes them seem so much more… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Texting and phone calls, fireworks, blends, café au lait, and music. Yesterday's television. Work and beer. The neighbor's dog, or those strange… — Tomoko Yamashita Copy Share Image
“He invented ordinary things, and I stress, ordinary. Not brilliant, just ordinary, and that's exactly what humanity needs. Brilliant inventions might be… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I don't understand writers who feel they shouldn't have to do any of the ordinary things of life, because I think that… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life. — Eric Rohmer Copy Share Image
(The Tao) is always present and always available. . . . If you are willing to be lived by it, you will… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else. — Chuck Noll Copy Share Image
Clary, you're an artist, like your mother. That means you see the world in ways that other people don't. It's your gift,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
