Ordinary Life Quotes

• In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Inspirational, Life, Thank You

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• Ordinary life does not interest me.

  Anais Nin

  Ordinary, Doe, Interest

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life.

  Brian Andreas

  Photography, Ordinary, Looks

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• Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.

  Anais Nin

  Ordinary, Doe, True Happiness

  The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932.

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

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Ordinary Days, Extraordinary

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• The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

  Mencius

  Positive, Christmas, Wisdom

  Confucius, Mencius (1861). “The works of mencius”, p.198

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• I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.

  Colum McCann

  Thinking, Ordinary

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.49, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life.

  Margaret Mahy

  Taken, Ordinary, Lifetime

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• There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters.

  Margaret Mahy

  Character, Space, Everyday

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• Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.

  Joyce Meyer

  Next Day, People, Ordinary

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• In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Covered Up, Live For Today, Ordinary

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• Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.

  Anais Nin

  Letting Go, Thirsty, Shackles

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• There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Ordinary, Pleasure, Values

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• I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension

  Anais Nin

  Space, Want, Dimensions

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• It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away

  Anne Tyler

  Ordinary, Mystery, Celebrate Life

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• Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.

  A. E. Waite

  Business, Mind, Ordinary

  A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.

  Anais Nin

  Letting Go, Thirsty, Shackles

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• I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.

  Anais Nin

  Feelings, Stronger, Reason

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• I'm satisfied to have an ordinary success and an ordinary life and an ordinary income. Later, I don't know.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Ordinary, Income, Satisfied

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What we grieve for is not the loss of a grand vision, but rather the loss of common things, events and gestures.... ordinariness is the most precious thing we struggle for, what the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto fought for. Not noble causes or abstract theories. But the right to go on living with a sense of purpose and a sense of self-worth--an ordinary life.

  Irena Klepfisz

  Grief, Struggle, Ghetto

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• Life and business is like the changing seasons. You cannot change the seasons, but you can change yourself. Therein lies the opportunity to live an extraordinary life, the opportunity to change yourself.

  Jim Rohn

  Lying, Opportunity, Change Yourself

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 27, 2013

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• Appreciation of life itself, becoming suddenly aware of the miracle of being alive, on this planet, can turn what we call ordinary life into a miracle. We come awake to such a realization when we recognize our connection to a spiritual dimension.

  Dan Wakefield

  Spiritual, Appreciation, Miracle

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• The shock, the power of an ordinary life. It is a thing you could not invent with banks of computers in a dust-free room.

  Don DeLillo

  Life, Dust, Ordinary

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.305, Pan Macmillan

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• In our prayer and meditation we hope for fulfilling ordinary life.

  Thomas Moore

  Life, Prayer, Meditation

  Thomas Moore (1992). “Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life”, Harpercollins

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• Divorce becomes a holy moment when you choose to use it as a catalyst for having an extraordinary life.

  Debbie Ford

  Divorce, Use, Moments

  Debbie Ford (2009). “Spiritual Divorce: Divorce as a Catalyst for an Extraordinary Life”, p.9, Harper Collins

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