Normality Quotes

• The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

  Alfred Adler

  Drinking, Humor, Knowing

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  If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Success, Encouragement

  Twitter post from Mar 09, 2017

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• Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

  R. D. Laing

  Men, Years, Fifty

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Flower, Mediocrity, Way

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• Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.

  Charles Addams

  Spiders, Normalcy, Chaos

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• The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality.

  Harry Shearer

  Maintaining, Appearance, Hardest

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• Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

  Sigmund Freud

  Crazy, Average, Mad

  "Analysis Terminable and Interminable". Book by Sigmund Freud, sect. 5, 1937.

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• Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.

  Carl Jung

  Imagination, Fine, Ideals

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• Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

  Jodie Foster

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Being Yourself

  "Diamonds, Pearls & Stones : Jewels of Wisdom for Young Women from Extraordinary Women of the World". Book by Barbara Warren Holden and Jennifer Read Hawthorne, 2004.

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• Without deviance from normality, there can be no progress.

  Frank Zappa

  Progress, Deviance

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  Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

  Albert Camus

  Funny, Positivity, Bad Ass

  Albert Camus (1965). “Notebooks, 1942-1951”

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• Normality is the ability to learn by experience, to be flexible, and to adapt to a changing environment.

  Lawrence S. Kubie

  Changing Environment, Ability, Flexible

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• Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.

  R. D. Laing

  Children, Men, Normal

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.

  Joan Robinson

  Textbooks, Fiction, Normal

  Joan Robinson (2014). “Contributions to Modern Economics”, p.3, Academic Press

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• So, "normal" is really what society dictates as normal and if we're born in that world, we would see that as normal. But if you think about it for a second, is it really?

  Jacque Fresco

  Real, Thinking, Society

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• Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.

  Paulo Coelho

  Motivational, Running, Being Yourself

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 29, 2014

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• There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

  Umberto Eco

  Stupid, Mad, Four

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• Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Differences, One Day, Different

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• There will be over 3,500 killed in USA today from abortion. No flags lowered, no presidents crying. No media hyperventilating. Normal day.

  Matt Drudge

  Children, Hypocrite, Media

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• So many people seem to spend their lives trying to appear normal, predictable and consistent to themselves and those that surround them. They just end up bored with themselves, bereft of any depth of inner resources, suffocated by the inhibitions that defend their own monolithic identities.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Life, Self, People

  "Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 1995.

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• When I think of normality I think of mediocrity

  Gillian Anderson

  Thinking, Mediocrity, Think Of Me

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• In a world turned upside-down, where everything was wrong, bizarre, you could at least look up at the sky and see normality. Stars that shone regardless of who won a civil war, or who should or should not be a president. Their light was billions of years old. They didn't have a care.

  Alex Scarrow

  Stars, War, Light

  "TimeRiders: The Eternal War". Book by Alex Scarrow, July 14, 201.

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• If you look at the whole life of the planet, we - you know, Man - has only been around for a few blinks of an eye. So if the infection wipes us all out, that is a return to normality.

  Alex Garland

  Eye, Men, Looks

  "Fictional character: Sergeant Farrell". "28 Days Later...", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.

  Margaret Atwood

  Courage, Thinking, Bravery

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think that's the struggle of our normality is that we have oppressed desires because of what is accepted and not accepted in society.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Struggle, Thinking, Desire

  Source: www.avclub.com

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