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• The stresses, strains, and traumas of ordinary daily existence in the process of working and living tend to inhibit our breathing ability.

  Leonard Orr

  Stress, Breathing, Process

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• Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town.

  Zola Budd

  Running, Growing Up, Shoes

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

  Marc Newson

  Ordinary Things, Taxi

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• There's absolutely no limit to what plain, ordinary, working people can accomplish if they're given the opportunity and encouragement to do their best.

  Sam Walton

  Encouragement, Opportunity, People

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.13, Bantam

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• We often don’t realize that the extraordinary is to be found in the lives of ordinary people.

  Paulo Coelho

  People, Realizing, Found

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• Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries.

  Robin Sharma

  People, Library, Tvs

  Twitter post from Jan 03, 2017

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• What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is all a masquerade. What good stories deal with is the horror and incomprehensibility of time, the dark encroachment of old catastrophes...

  Joy Williams

  Dark, People, Stories

  "Joy Williams, The Art of Fiction No. 223". Interview with Paul Winner, www.theparisreview.org. 2014.

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• Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Wish, Modern

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.218, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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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

  Alive, Ordinary Things, Splendor

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• Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is. We lose our health -- and create profitable diseases and dependencies -- by failing to see the direct connections between living and eating, eating and working, working and loving.

  Wendell Berry

  Broken, Connections, Doe

  "The Art of the Commonplace". Book by Wendell Berry, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2002.

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• It's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary...it never occurred to me to leave home to make art.

  Sally Mann

  Art, Philosophy, Home

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• Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one's ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Spiritual, Yoga, Names

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• When we free ourselves from the constraints of ordinary goals and uninformed scoffers we will find ourselves roaring off the face of the earth.

  Abraham Maslow

  Goal, Roaring, Earth

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• All good qualities must be sown and cultivated. We can’t expect to change overnight from an ordinary person into one with high realizations.

  Dalai Lama

  Quality, Realization, Persons

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• We need to remember that the first disciples were ordinary men called to an extraordinary mission. Their devotion to Jesus outweighed- by hair- their fears and insecurities. As a result God change them and use them to accomplish some mind-boggling things. Why couldn't God - why wouldn't God do the same in your life?

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Men, Hair

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• The freedom we enjoy is a richly textured gift handcrafted by ordinary folk

  Nelson Mandela

  Enjoy, Handcrafted, Folks

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.159, Pan Macmillan

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• Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.

  Bob Goff

  Wine, People, Water

  Twitter post from Jul 22, 2015

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• The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.

  Mark Nepo

  Waiting, Skins, Dripping

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.24, Conari Press

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• Naturally, the top does not automatically make us better. Like the samurai frequented ordinary cutthroat, so sometimes extreme mountaineer can be self-centered, mythomaniac or crook to each yourself and the environment.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Climbing, Self, Doe

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• At its finest moments climbing allows me to step out of ordinary existence into something extraordinary, stripping me of my sense of self-importance.

  Doug Scott

  Climbing, Self, Steps

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• Ordinary women of grace are, in a sense, my real role models.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Real, Role Models, Grace

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• And she is your holy Mary. And I am so ordinary.

  Paula Cole

  Holy Mary, Holy, Mary

  Song: I Am So Ordinary, Album: Harbinger, 1994

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• The ordinary can be absolutely miraculous.

  Simon Armitage

  Miraculous

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• I am just an ordinary person committed to doing extraordinary things.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Committed, Persons, Ordinary Person

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• The night was ordinary. It usually is, I think, when your life changes. Most people aren't doing anything special when the carefully placed pieces of their life break apart.

  Carole Radziwill

  Life Changing, Night, Thinking

  Carole Radziwill (2007). “What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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