Best Ordinary Life Quotations
161 Ordinary Life quotes by 141 unique authors
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Let This Voice Be Heard fulfills the mandate of biography at its best because Maurice Jackson has captured the history of a great moral movement's…
— David Levering Lewis
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SEEK AND YOU WILL FIND. DON'T BE WILLING TO ACCEPT AN ORDINARY LIFE.
— Salle Merrill Redfield
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To walk into Bill Olsen's poems is to enter a mind so weirdly curious, you can't be released to sadness, not yet: it's just too…
— Marianne Boruch
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Believing people can soar beyond ordinary life.
— Frank Fools Crow
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The one thing we can count on is that time will pass; day will become night, and the sunrise will bring with it a new…
— Hal Elrod
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If you don't make the commitment today to start becoming the person you need to be to create the extraordinary life you really want, what…
— Hal Elrod
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give... You will find that people forget the failures of others…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Zen is a totally different kind of religion. It brings humanness to religion. It is not bothered about anything superhuman; its whole concern is how…
— Rajneesh
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I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at the…
— Patricia Highsmith
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Art and music shine a light of meaning on ordinary life, and through them we are able to confront the things that trouble us and…
— Roger Scruton
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
— Karen Thompson Walker
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Giving my life to you may mean leading a very ordinary life or it may mean leading an extraordinary life. It may mean having a…
— Frederick Lenz
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We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the…
— Oswald Chambers
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Although we tend to think about saints as holy and pious, and picture them with halos above their heads and ecstatic gazes, true saints are…
— Henri Nouwen
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I went to boarding school, and then I went to Oxford, and I know how easy it is for certain groups of people to become…
— Mark Haddon
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There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.
— Doris Lessing
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Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from…
— Joyce Meyer
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
— Gary Oldman
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I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It…
— Jane Pauley
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If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
— Salman Rushdie
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I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely…
— Florence Welch
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If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.
— George Will
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There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around…
— Boris Yeltsin
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I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the…
— Anais Nin
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