Ordinary Life Quotes

161 quotes by 144 authors

Now most people do not want an ordinary life in which they do a job well, earn the respect of their collaborators and competitors, bring… — John Cleese
Appreciation of life itself, becoming suddenly aware of the miracle of being alive, on this planet, can turn what we call ordinary life into a… — Dan Wakefield
The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-in-the-present, to bear… — Peter Matthiessen
These phantoms speak with human voices . . . able to vanish or appear at will, to pass in and out through the walls of… — Charles Lindbergh
Underneath our ordinary lives, underneath all the talking we do, all the moving we do, all the thoughts in our minds, there's a fundamental groundlessness.… — Pema Chodron
How was it that, even in the common tasks of an ordinary life, Jesus drew the praise of heaven? At the core of His being,… — Francis Frangipane
In this life, your so-called ordinary life, you must be rooted; and in your inner space, in the spiritual life, you must be weightless and… — Rajneesh
The relaxation should not be a method. You should not relax through a Yoga posture. This very understanding is relaxing, this very understanding is relaxation.… — Rajneesh
Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications. Its wonders may… — Arthur Balfour
Their example gives witness to the fact that baptism commits Christians to participate boldly in the spread of the Kingdom of God, cooperating if necessary… — Pope Benedict XVI
Each individual is unique in ordinary life. The uniqueness becomes even more sharp and clear, crystal clear, when the person becomes enlightened - because only… — Rajneesh
When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: Ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very… — Harold S. Kushner
Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life. — Oprah Winfrey
Serious or trivial, his daily behavior has instituted a canon which millions observe this day with conscious memory. No one regarded by any section of… — David George Hogarth
All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot of Native American… — Sherman Alexie
The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life. — Robert Penn Warren
Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of Chess, always relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to call chess a typical inexact… — Garry Kasparov
As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and only wise man,… — Desiderius Erasmus
I began to feel that I lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was richer because of its very… — Charles Lindbergh
Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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