Ordinary Days Quotes

• Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” —

  William Arthur Ward

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude

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• No day is an ordinary day; all days are extraordinary, because life itself is extraordinary!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Extraordinary, Ordinary

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• It has taken awhile, but I certainly do know it now ­­– the most wonderful gift I had, the gift I finally learned to cherish above all else, was the gift of all those perfectly ordinary days.

  Katrina Kenison

  Taken, Wonderful, Cherish

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• Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings.

  William Arthur Ward

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Thankfulness

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• It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

  Jodi Picoult

  Eye, Blink, Extraordinary

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• It must be those brief moments when nothing has happened - nor is going to. Tiny moments, like islands in the ocean beyond the grey continent of our ordinary days. There, sometimes, you meet your own heart like someone you've never known.

  Hans Børli

  Ocean, Heart, Islands

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• One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ordinary, Succession

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• We have the idea that God is going to do some exceptional thing- that He is preparing and equipping us for some extraordinary work in the future. But as we grow in His grace we find that God is glorifying Himself here and now, at this very moment. If we have God’s assurance behind us, the most amazing strength becomes ours, and we learn to sing, glorifying Him even in the ordinary days and ways of life.

  Oswald Chambers

  Ideas, Grace, Way

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.49, Discovery House

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• I'm happy to be reminded that an ordinary day full of nothing but nothingness can make you feel like you've won the lottery.

  Susan Orlean

  Like You, Feels, Lottery

  "Snow Day" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. January 12, 2011.

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• I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day . . .

  Harvey Pekar

  Thinking, Average, Heroism

  Interview with Gary Groth, classic.tcj.com. 1984.

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• Subtly, in the little ways, joy has been leaking out of our lives. The small pleasures of the ordinary day seem almost contemptible, and glance off us lightly...Perhaps it's a good time to reconsider pleasure at its roots. Changing out of wet shoes and socks, for instance. Bathrobes. Yawning and stretching. Real tomatoes.

  Barbara Holland

  Real, Shoes, Roots

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• The best reason to pray is that God is really there. In praying our unbelief starts to melt. God moves smack into the middle of even an ordinary day.

  Emily Giffin

  Moving, Praying, Reason

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• Work harder to appreciate your ordinary day.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Appreciate, Work Harder, Ordinary

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• For them, it was nothing but an ordinary day on an ordinary day on an ordinary weekend, but for her, there was something revelatory about the notion that wonderful moments like these existed.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Weekend, Ordinary Moments, Wonderful

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• Even though I found you on an ordinary day, it felt like I found a precious pearl in an oyster when I deep dived into the sea. Baby, you are really that precious to me.

  Fiona Apple

  Love, Good Morning, Baby

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• It happened in New York, April 10th, nineteen years ago. Even my hand balks at the date. I had to push to write it down, just to keep the pen moving on the paper. It used to be a perfectly ordinary day, but now it sticks up on the calendar like a rusty nail.

  Donna Tartt

  New York, Moving, Writing

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• See beauty in those unexpected places. (she asked herself how people could let Bach be background noise.) See the opportunity in what looks like inconvenience. (she steered clear of the traffic jam and went to the bakery she's been meaning to stop at.) She embraces the undeclared possibility in what seems like just another ordinary day. (her friend is scheduled for cancer surgery and suddenly everything around her seems so very precious.)

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Cancer, Opportunity, Background Noise

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• Tea ceremony is a way of worshipping the beautiful and the simple. All one's efforts are concentrated on trying to achieve perfection through the imperfect gestures of daily life. Its beauty consists in the respect with which it is performed. If a mere cup of tea can bring us closer to God, we should watch out for all the other dozens of opportunities that each ordinary day offers us.

  Paulo Coelho

  Beautiful, Opportunity, Simple

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• It occurred to me that if I were a ghost, this ambiance was what I'd miss most: the ordinary, day-to-day bustle of the living. Ghosts long, I'm sure, for the stupidest, most unremarkable things.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Long, Missing, Ghost

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.31, Melville House

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• If you're really a good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read, and you'll be produced somehow. It just works that way. If you're just a simple ordinary day-to-day craftsman, no different than most, then the likelihood is that you probably won't make it in writing.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Simple, Way

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher's stone which turns our ordinary days to gold. But not the whole day ... For it is never the whole day, never all our life which is transformed in any happiness, but only the exquisite moments.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Summer, Being In Love, Love Is

  Nan Fairbrother (1954). “An English Year”

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• We have to make good use of the time we have. That simple. We have to wake up every day, knowing that it's not just an ordinary day. We have to take the moment, seize each day.

  Orlando Bloom

  Powerful, Simple, Knowing

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• It's so weird how that can be, how you could have a night that's the worst in your life, but to everybody else it's just an ordinary night. Like on my calendar at home, I would mark this as being one of the most horrific days of my life. This and the day Daisy died. But for the rest of the world, this was just an ordinary day. Or may be it was even a good day. May be somebody won the lottery today.

  R. J. Palacio

  Home, Good Day, Night

  R. J. Palacio (2017). “The Wonder eOmni Collection: Wonder, Auggie & Me, 365 Days of Wonder”, p.281, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I've never been in love, but I've always imagined it--weirdly--like some sort of OxiClean commercial. The TV host shows a scene from an ordinary day, and then takes a big old sponge soaked in love and swipes away the stains. Suddenly that same scene is missing all the mistakes, all the loneliness. The colors are like jewels, ten times richer than they were before. The music is louder and clearer. "Love," the host will say, "makes life a little brighter.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mistake, Loneliness, Jewels

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• The worst Persian voluptuary could never have imagined my most ordinary day.

  Lew Welch

  Ordinary, Persian, Worst

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