Ordinary Quotes

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All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them. — Oswald Chambers
What is amazing is how we treat a meeting with God as ordinary or burdensome. — Francis Chan
We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity. — Alan Watts
I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way… — Rob Lowe
An ordinary mistake is one that leads to a dead end, while a profound mistake is one that leads to progress. Anyone can make an… — Frank Wilczek
The mantle of glamour has been taken from the women and given to the men. The women toil in their shadows, plain and ordinary-looking. So… — RuPaul
I’m an ordinary girl who believed in her dream. — Jessica Watson
We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind. — Karen Armstrong
Natalie Bakopoulos has that rare gift, the ability to imagine a traumatic historical event in the form of individual lives and ordinary details. The Green… — Elizabeth Kostova
I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valueless. — Michael Frayn
To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality. It is not… — Robert Thurman
Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the greatest teachers of our time. He reaches from the heights of insight down to the deepest places of… — Robert Thurman
Every night before I go to sleep I say out loud three things that I am grateful for, all the significant, insignificant, extraordinary, ordinary stuff… — Carrie Newcomer
Why is it that beautiful women never seem to have curiosity? Is it because they know they're classical? With classical things the Lord finished the… — Penelope Gilliatt
If you don't have a way to speak to ordinary Americans, you're not in the game. — Gar Alperovitz
When you bring an idealised relationship down to the level of an ordinary one it isn't necessarily the ordinary one that suffers'. — Winston Graham
I culled poetry from odors, sounds, faces, and ordinary events occurring around me. Breezes bulged me as if I were cloth; sounds nicked their marks… — Jimmy Santiago Baca
When ordinary people pray, extraordinary things can happen. — Brian Houston
Life is too short, the world is too big and God's love is too great to live ordinary. — Christine Caine
I wanted to show that women could run, but I also wanted to kind of inspire the idea that ordinary people can run. I was… — Bobbi Gibb
Celebrate the Sacred in the ordinary. — Sarah Ban Breathnach
The less you demand total fulfillment from relationships, the more you can appreciate them for the beautiful tapestries they are, in which absolute and relative,… — John Welwood
People who truly have control over time always have some in their pocket to give to someone in need. A sense of priorities drives their… — Scott Berkun
Successful people do ordinary things with extraordinary consistency, commitment and focus. — Jon Gordon
Here’s what I think: the only reason I’m not ordinary is that no one else sees me that way. — R. J. Palacio

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