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Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff. — Harvey Pekar
Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want… — Anais Nin
It was common enough, to see so much death and want a child. Common, therefore human, and he wanted it all the more. When the… — Ian Mcewan
Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one. — Tony Robbins
But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loopholes,… — Leo Tolstoy
For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce. ... how to set yourself spinning? — Annie Dillard
A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it turns… — C.S. Lewis
In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
That odd capacity for destitution, as if by nature we ought to have so much more than nature gives us. As if we are shockingly… — Marilynne Robinson
Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked… — Freya Stark
There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92) — Lucy Maud Montgomery
An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain. — Susan Orlean
I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I think, in a… — Thomas Merton
Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason. — Graham Greene
Marmee: Oh, Jo. Jo, you have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead an ordinary life? You’re ready to go out and… — Louisa May Alcott
The good folks mostly win, courage usually triumphs over fear, the family dog hardly ever contracts rabies: these are things I knew at twenty-five, and… — Stephen King
Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. — Anais Nin
[Jesus] matters because of what he brought and what he still brings to ordinary human beings, living their ordinary lives and coping daily with their… — Brennan Manning
The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort. — Alain de Botton
There are days when I am convinced that Heaven starts already, now, in this ordinary life just as it is, in all its incompleteness, yet,… — Thomas Merton
The loneliness caused by not hearing Ren's voice... I felt it deep in the night. I felt it deeper than anyone else. Even now at… — Ai Yazawa
I want a simple, ordinary life . . . like humans enjoy. — Deborah Harkness
Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead… — William Martin
I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own psychic madness or… — Caroline Myss
There is no such thing as an ordinary life. — Mark Twain

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