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• How do you recover from an extraordinary loss? Take stock of the loved ones around you. Hug them, love them, and cherish them. When you appreciate the joys in your life, it makes sorrow that much easier to swallow. Every day is a new day. Hope floats, so let it rise. God is love.

  Joseph Simmons

  Death, Inspiration, Loss

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• I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.

  Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Ordinary

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• But I want to pay tribute to Anna Lee Woodruff, an extraordinary, selfless woman and beautiful grandmother who in her quiet determined way was a role model for her two daughters, and who left a lasting impression on so many who knew her.

  Judy Woodruff

  Beautiful, Mother, Daughter

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• Trees are extraordinary revelations of the spirit in nature. And, given the multitude of ways that trees and their products benefit and enrich human culture, they are an especially appropriate symbol of the interdependence of spirit and nature.

  Steven Clark Rockefeller

  Tree, Way, Culture

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• When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: Ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very process of life begins to nourish your soul.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Spiritual, Godly, Soul

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• We human beings don't realize how great God is. He has given us an extraordinary brain and a sensitive loving heart. He has blessed us with two lips to talk and express our feelings, two eyes which see a world of colors and beauty, two feet which walk on the road of life, two hands to work for us, a nose which smells the beauty of fragrance, and two ears to hear the words of love.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Motivational, Powerful, Blessed

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• Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Powerful, Dots, Purpose

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• When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.

  Aberjhani

  Discipline, Ordinary, Levels

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.68, Lulu.com

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• In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Ignorance, Astonishment, Causes

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Charles Duke Yonge (1853). “The Treatises of M.T. Cicero: On the Nature of the Gods; On Divination; On Fate; On the Republic; On the Laws; and On Standing for the Consulship”, p.220, London : H.G. Bohn

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• This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.

  Samuel Smiles

  Science, Civilization, Iron

  Samuel Smiles (2010). “Men of Invention and Industry”, p.87, BoD – Books on Demand

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• When we trust God, He can make the ordinary extraordinary!

  John C. Maxwell

  Wrestling, Ordinary Extraordinary, Trust In God

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• The 2.4 million bright, brave, incredibly fit and remarkably talented young Americans who have served in our armed forces since we were attacked on 9-11-01 are all volunteers. As General Petraeus put it during a conversation we had in Afghanistan, 'They all came or stayed, knowing they were going to war.' For more than a decade, these patriots and their loved ones have made extraordinary sacrifices for this country. They embody the classical definition of heroes: those who put themselves at risk for the benefit of others.

  Oliver North

  Country, Veterans Day, War

  "The Heroes of 2011" by Oliver North, www.foxnews.com. November 11, 2011.

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• Your work matters a great deal to God, to others and to our world. There is no ordinary work. The work God has called you to do is extraordinary. Don't miss out on God's best by taking an ordinary approach to it.

  Tom Nelson

  Motivation, Our World, Missing

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• Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.

  Irena Sendler

  Inspirational Life, Hero, Normal

  "Irena Sendlerowa: Warsaw social worker who rescued thousands from the Jewish ghetto". Rupert Cornwell, The Independent, May 14, 2008.

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• Seize the day. Make your life extraordinary.

  Robin Williams

  Love Life, Seize The Day

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• Human beings, each one, right through the world, go through great agonies, the more sensitive, the more alert, the more observant, the greater the suffering, the anxiety, the extraordinary sense of insoluble problems.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

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• Often, the most extraordinary opportunities are hidden among the seemingly insignificant events of life. If we do not pay attention to these events, we can easily miss the opportunities.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Opportunity

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 23, 2013

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• Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Life, Glimpse, Aperture

  "The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857".

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• Well, the people I've known I must say are extraordinary. When I think about some of them, I can't believe that I knew them all. And I think the reason I knew most of them at the beginning was because they were of Bogie's generation, 25 years my senior, not mine. But they were the most talented people of all.

  Lauren Bacall

  Senior, Believe, Memorable

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• Losing Bogey was horrible, obviously. Because he was young. And because he gave me my life. I wouldn't have had a - I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't met him. I would have had a completely different kind of life. He changed me, he gave me everything. And he was an extraordinary man.

  Lauren Bacall

  Memorable, Men, Different

  "CNN Larry King Live". transcripts.cnn.com. May 6, 2005.

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• It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Cancer, Way, Has Beens

  "People" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2006.

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• This is an extraordinary achievement, nearly nine years in the making.

  Barack Obama

  War, Years, Achievement

  Obama's Speech to Troops at Fort Bragg, www.nytimes.com. December 14, 2011.

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• What is of the greatest importance in war is extraordinary speed: One cannot afford to neglect opportunity.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Opportunity, Speed

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• If you have more than 120 or 130 I.Q. points, you can afford to give the rest away. You don't need extraordinary intelligence to succeed as an investor.

  Warren Buffett

  Intelligent, Giving, Investing

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• I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere, at the most commonplace thing, scratch around in it long enough, pry and dig away long enough, and lo!, soon he will hit upon the marvelous.

  Saul Bellow

  Writing, Long, Ordinary

  Saul Bellow, Gloria L. Cronin, Ben Siegel (1994). “Conversations with Saul Bellow”, p.138, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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