Ordinary Life Quotes - Page 8

• Women who were housewives, who were pretty miserable ... felt inspired by her book and their life changed. They didn't become megastars, but they became a librarian or something. I've heard women say again and again when the subject of Germaine comes up: 'Well, her book changed my life for the better.' And they'll be modest women living pretty ordinary lives, but better lives.

  Germaine Greer

  Life Changing, Book, Ordinary

  "Germaine Greer" by Laura Miller, www.salon.com. June 22, 1999.

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• There are no ordinary lives.

  Ken Burns

  Ordinary

  "Ken Burns On “The Worst War Ever". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. August 24, 2007.

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• Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Ordinary, Different, Levels

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• The most efficient action, the most significant testimony to nonviolence, is living a life in which there is no violence-showing that such a life is possible, and even not more difficult than a life of gain, nor more unpleasant than a life of pleasure, nor less natural than an 'ordinary' life.

  Lanza del Vasto

  Peace, Ordinary, Gains

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• If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Ordinary, Creation, Sabbath

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• Now most people do not want an ordinary life in which they do a job well, earn the respect of their collaborators and competitors, bring up a family and have friends. That's not enough any more, and I think that is absolutely tragic - and I'm not exaggerating - that people feel like a decent, ordinary, fun life is no longer enough.

  John Cleese

  Jobs, Fun, Thinking

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

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• Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Men, Excellence, Ordinary

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• An extraordinary life is all about daily, continuous improvements in the areas that matter most.

  Robin Sharma

  Matter, Improvement, Life Is

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Feb 22, 2010

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• I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.

  Ransom Riggs

  Dream, Home, Escaping

  "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children". Book by Ransom Riggs, 2011.

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• Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.

  Harvey Pekar

  Writing, Ordinary, Stuff

  Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman, Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner (2003). “American Splendor: The Official Shooting Script”, Welcome Rain

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• Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Wall, Freedom

  "The Resurgence And Allure Of Anais Nin" by Diana M. Raab, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2016.

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• Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself.

  William Martin

  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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• The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Writing, Confusion, Ordinary

  Robert Penn Warren (1989). “New and selected essays”, Random House Inc

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• How was it that, even in the common tasks of an ordinary life, Jesus drew the praise of heaven? At the core of His being, He only did those things which pleased the Father. In everything, He stayed true, heartbeat to heartbeat, with the Father's desires. Jesus lived for God alone; God was enough for Him. Thus, even in its simplicity and moment-to-moment faithfulness, Christ's life was an unending fragrance, a perfect offering of incomparable love to God.

  Francis Frangipane

  Jesus, Father, Offering

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• But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.

  Russell Banks

  Art, Reading, Writing

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• One of the difficulties about interviewing people in Rwanda is that the country is trying to get on with ordinary life and some people just don't want to get involved in this.

  Tony Greig

  Country, People, Trying

  "Investigator details charges". "NBC News Investigates", www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2004.

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• Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back. Learn to create your own opportunities. Know that there is no finish line; fortune favors action. Race balls-out toward the extraordinary life that you’ve always dreamed of, or still haven’t had time to dream up. And prepare to have a hell of a lot of fun along the way.

  Sophia Amoruso

  Dream, Fun, Opportunity

  Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#GIRLBOSS”, p.14, Penguin

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• Marmee: Oh, Jo. Jo, you have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead an ordinary life? You’re ready to go out and – and find a good use for your talent. Tho’ I don’t know what I shall do without my Jo. Go, and embrace your liberty. And see what wonderful things come of it.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Liberty, Ordinary, Use

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• Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder

  Long, Ordinary, Existence

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

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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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• In ordinary life, we are not aware of the unity of all things, but divide the world into separate objects and events. This division is useful and necessary to cope with our everyday environment, but it is not a fundamental feature of reality. It is an abstraction devised by our discriminating and categorising intellect. To believe that our abstract concepts of separate 'things' and 'events' are realities of nature is an illusion.

  Fritjof Capra

  Believe, Reality, Unity

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• I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I think, in a way, they were certainly saints. And they were saints in that most effective and telling way: sanctified by leading ordinary lives in a completely supernatural manner, sanctified by obscurity, by usual skills, by common tasks, by routine, but skills, tasks, routine which received a supernatural form from grace within.

  Thomas Merton

  Kindness, Real, Thinking

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• I began to feel that I lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was richer because of its very association with the element of danger they dreaded, because it was freer of the earth to which they were bound. In flying, I tasted a wine of the gods of which they could know nothing. Who valued life more highly, the aviators who spent it on the art they loved, or these misers who doled it out like pennies through their antlike days? I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary life time.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Art, Wine, Years

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• An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.

  Susan Orlean

  Ordinary, Heroic, Complicated

  Susan Orlean (2010). “The Bullfighter Checks Her Make-Up”, p.13, Random House

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• It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich!

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Thank You, Thankful, Gratitude

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

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