Best Ordinary Life Sayings
161 Ordinary Life quotes by 141 unique authors
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To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of…
— John Cowper Powys
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Nor was I the only one struggling.To live an ordinary life, like any ordinary person, must have been the vain dream of countless others.
— Sayo Masuda
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Life and business is like the changing seasons. You cannot change the seasons, but you can change yourself. Therein lies the opportunity to live an…
— Jim Rohn
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In ordinary life, we are not aware of the unity of all things, but divide the world into separate objects and events. This division is…
— Fritjof Capra
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The ancient Masters didn't try to educate the people, but kindly taught them to not-know. When they think that they know the answers, people are…
— Laozi
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Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and…
— Huston Smith
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Philosophy arises from an unusually obstinate attempt to arrive at real knowledge. What passes for knowledge in ordinary life suffers from three defects: it is…
— Bertrand Russell
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Ordinary life does not interest me.
— Anais Nin
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An extraordinary life is all about daily, continuous improvements in the areas that matter most.
— Robin Sharma
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From testimonials and personal experience we have enough information to conclude that IT'S POSSIBLE TO DESIGN AND LIVE AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE
— Jim Rohn
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There are no ordinary lives.
— Ken Burns
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Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.
— Chogyam Trungpa
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Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary…
— Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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... he felt himself to be one of them, who can live neither in the world nor out of it. They are a kind of…
— Iris Murdoch
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When I look back on my ordinary, ordinary life, I see so much magic, though I missed it at the time.
— Jamie Cullum
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How is your life limited by your fear? What are you not doing that you'd really like to do? When we use fear to our…
— Cheryl Richardson
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But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.
— Walker Percy
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Sun lighting a child's hair. A friend's embrace. Slow dancing in a safe and quiet place. The pleasures of an ordinary life.
— Judith Viorst
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If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A conspiracy…
— Don DeLillo
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By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I…
— Margaret Mahy
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There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why…
— Margaret Mahy
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To live an extraordinary life, you must resist an ordinary approach.
— Frank McKinney
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But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early…
— Russell Banks
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My benefactor said that when a man embarks on the paths of sorcery he becomes aware, in a gradual manner, that ordinary life has been…
— Carlos Castaneda
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In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae…
— Sigmar Gabriel
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