Behind Quote by Chris Van Allsburg

“Particularity leads to peculiarity and then to pathological behavior. The three Ps. It is very insidious. You would eventually end up in a box.…

— Susan Trott

People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“the mundane can be quite satisfying. In fact, being ordinary in general is highly underrated.”

— Stephenie Meyer

Nature has a counterpart, a representation of every interior mood and obscure perception of man.

— Mary Butts

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

— Edith Wharton

I’m interested in things which suggest the world rather than express the personality... The most conventional thing, the most ordinary - it seems to…

— Jasper Johns

Never to see or describe any interesting appearance in nature, without connecting it by dim analogies with the moral world, proves faintness of Impression.…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

— Marilynne Robinson

Psychological type is nothing static - it changes in the course of life.

— Carl Jung

Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of…

— Tom Robbins

Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, butit is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil.…

— Charles Horton Cooley

Voluntary simplicity has more to do with the state of mind than a person's physical surroundings and possessions.

— Duane Elgin