Ordinary Quotes

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(The Tao) is always present and always available. . . . If you are willing to be lived by it, you will see it everywhere,… — Laozi
All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him for the better… — Henry Ward Beecher
Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to… — E. M. Forster
What is particularly intriguing, in fact, is that whereas many peoples tend to locate this experience (of the sacred) in certain unusual, if not 'supernatural'… — Conrad Hyers
Turn your face toward the sacred Mosque (Koran 2:144,149,150) Commentary: The word "sacred" means that a heart which has not disengaged itself from the sphere… — Abdelkader El Djezairi
Newton was a genius, but not because of the superior computational power of his brain. Newton's genius was, on the contrary, his ability to simplify,… — Gerald Weinberg
I don't know anything that gives me greater pleasure, or profit either, than talking or listening to philosophy. But when it comes to ordinary conversation,… — Plato
Just like an ordinary guitar string, a fundamental string can vibrate in different modes. And it is these different modes of vibration of the string… — Lee Smolin
When it's time to get dressed, put on your clothes. When you must walk, then walk. When you must sit, then sit. Just be your… — Linji Yixuan
History is no longer just a chronicle of kings and statesmen, of people who wielded power, but of ordinary women and men engaged in manifold… — Toshiko Kishida
Not one idiot in a thousand has been entirely refractory to treatment, not one in a hundred has not been made more happy and healthy;… — Unknown Author
We know, from ordinary life, that we are not able to direct our attention perfectly steadily and uniformly to one and the same object... At… — Wilhelm Wundt
Coach Landry was a master at maintaining discipline and creating an environment where ordinary people could achieve extra ordinary results. — Unknown Author
A great work of Art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. - Neither in Art nor Literature more than in… — Margaret Fuller
War, the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary. — Philip Caputo
Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or… — Arthur E Waite
The special life is where the ordinary becomes extraordinary, the natural becomes miraculous, the everyday becomes unique. Finding the magic and wonder within nature is… — Shmuley Boteach
The most ordinary things are to philosophy a source of insoluble puzzles. With infinite ingenuity it constructs a concept of space or time and then… — Ludwig Boltzmann
We can see now that we Americans were caught unprepared, because we were ordinary human beings, following the best advice we had at the time.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
When ordinary people decide to do extraordinary things they transform their lives and the lives of others around them. — Oprah Winfrey
If a man could understand all the horror of the lives of ordinary people who are turning around in a circle of insignificant interests and… — G I Gurdjieff
The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of high functioning, a… — Robert Henri
Moreover, metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason, most people think… — George Lakoff
The worst Persian voluptuary could never have imagined my most ordinary day. — Lew Welch
The difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death seems… — Sarada Devi

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