Ordinary Things Quotes

• Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

  John W. Gardner

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

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• She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Simple, Ordinary Extraordinary, People

  "The Lucky One". Book by Nicholas Sparks, 2008.

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• Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.

  Mother Teresa

  Ordinary Extraordinary, Changing The World, Extraordinary Love

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.325, Image

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• The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Miracle, Ordinary, World

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• Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.

  Thomas Merton

  Ordinary, Alive, Splendor

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• I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordina ry.

  Andy Warhol

  Trying, Ordinary, Paint

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• Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Perception, Ordinary, Life Is

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• I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.

  Balthus

  Art, Desire, Ordinary

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• Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world.

  Pema Chodron

  Warrior, Inspire, Everyday

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.85, Shambhala Publications

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• The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Light, Miracle, Ordinary

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• Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house---the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture---must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstitutred. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.

  Arundhati Roy

  House, Events, Ordinary

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.32, Penguin Books India

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• Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

  Marie Angelique Arnauld

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Ordinary Extraordinary

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• You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

  Dave Winfield

  Sports, Hero, Things In Life

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• The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things.

  Mia Love

  Father, Opportunity, Government

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• I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more.

  Marc Newson

  Ordinary, Taxi

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• (The Tao) is always present and always available. . . . If you are willing to be lived by it, you will see it everywhere, even in the most ordinary things.

  Laozi

  Life, Philosophy, Taoism

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• I’m still here, still in love with you, and care about you more than any other guy ever will." -Adrian-

  Richelle Mead

  Love You, Guy, Care

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• The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.

  Graham Swift

  Art, Clever, Real

  "Triumph of the common man" by John O'Mahony, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2003.

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• And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.

  Viola Davis

  People, Ordinary, Helping

  FaceBook post by Viola Davis from Jul 24, 2014

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• The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Love, Christian, Ordinary

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Emma Elizabeth Brown (1879). “Thoughts that breathe”

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• I think there is an element of magic in photography - light, chemistry, precious metals - a certain alchemy. You can wield a camera like a magic wand almost. Murmur the right words and you can conjure up proof of a dream. I believe in wonder. I look for it in my life every day; I find it in the most ordinary things.

  Keith Carter

  Photography, Dream, Believe

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• In my work, I really try to look at ordinary things quite closely to see if there isn't a little bit of something special about them. I'm trying to make something as nearly perfect as I can out of words.

  Ted Kooser

  Perfect, Special, Trying

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• Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.

  Pope Francis

  Love, Faith, Christian

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• The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things.

  Veronique Vienne

  Inspiring, Differences, Ordinary

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• One of the most important-and most neglected-elements in the beginning of the interior life is the ability to respond to reality, to see the value and the beauty in ordinary things, to come alive to the splendour that is all around us.

  Thomas Merton

  Beauty, Reality, Important

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.33, Shambhala Publications

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