Ordinary Things Quotes

83 quotes by 72 authors

Do ordinary things with extraordinary love. — Mother Teresa
Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith. — Pope Francis
The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language… — Graham Swift
Ask anyone what that means, what it means to see a miracle, and they will say that it's something impossible, but they mean that a… — Michael Cisco
We bless the life around us far more than we realize. Many simple, ordinary things that we do can affect those around us in profound… — Rachel Naomi Remen
I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more. — Marc Newson
Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things. — Thomas Merton
The test of a manâ€™s religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in… — Oswald Chambers
Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things! — Jim Valvano
The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest… — Michel de Montaigne
And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things. — Viola Davis
Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity. — Emily Carr
I read a bit of the Icelandic sagas. They're fascinating in that they are completely ordinary. The farmer will go off into the hills and… — Jonathan Stroud
I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordina… — Andy Warhol
What keeps faith cheerful is the extreme persistence of gentleness and humor. Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith rules through ordinary… — Garrison Keillor
Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life. — Eric Rohmer
The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you… — Mia Love
The young artist... will discover out of ordinary things the meaning of ordinariness. He will not try to make them extraordinary. Only their real meaning… — Allan Kaprow
By the 6th grade I stopped doing ordinary things in front of people. It had been ordinary to sing, kids are singing all the time… — Lynda Barry

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