Ordinary Quotes

2227 Ordinary quotes by 1506 unique authors

Each of us is a moving center, a space of divine mystery. And though we spend most of our time on the surface in the… — Gabrielle Roth
We walk, and our religion is shown even to the dullest and most insensitive person in how we walk. Or to put it more accurately,… — Reginald Horace Blyth
We wandered the halls of an infinite magic nursing home, led by a hippo nurse with a torch. Really, just an ordinary night for the… — Rick Riordan
There is not much you can say about a baby unless you are talking with its father or another mother or nurse; infants are not… — Ursula K. Le Guin
And be silent for the most part, or else make only the most necessary remarks, and express these in few words. But rarely, and when… — Epictetus
{While meditating} I sit quietly and rest in the nature of mind; I don't question or doubt whether I am in the "correct" state or… — Sogyal Rinpoche
You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in the… — Cab Calloway
After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change. — Tate Taylor
Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination. — Abraham Lincoln
Ordinary life does not interest me. — Anais Nin
It is almost a sadness to my soul that men should be astonished and surprised at an ordinary, tangible evidence of the power of God. — John G. Lake
When you stir up the passion, your faith will allow God to do amazing things. If you want to remain passionate, you cannot let what… — Joel Osteen
The stresses, strains, and traumas of ordinary daily existence in the process of working and living tend to inhibit our breathing ability. — Leonard Orr
Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics… — Zola Budd
I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more. — Marc Newson
There's absolutely no limit to what plain, ordinary, working people can accomplish if they're given the opportunity and encouragement to do their best. — Sam Walton
We often don’t realize that the extraordinary is to be found in the lives of ordinary people. — Paulo Coelho
Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries. — Robin Sharma
What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is all a masquerade.… — Joy Williams
Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only… — C.S. Lewis
Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things. — Thomas Merton
Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is… — Wendell Berry
It's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary...it never occurred to me to leave home to make… — Sally Mann
Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one's ordinary mental consciousness into a… — Sri Aurobindo
When we free ourselves from the constraints of ordinary goals and uninformed scoffers we will find ourselves roaring off the face of the earth. — Abraham Maslow

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