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• If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person. If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordinary person. Do not chase happiness; let it chase you.

  Peter Deunov

  Extraordinary Person, Pursue, Persons

  Peter Deunov (2010). “Love Is All Forgiving: Reflections on Love and Spirituality”, p.113, Health Communications, Inc.

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• In love the ordinary is made sacred.

  Arthur Dobrin

  Love, Sacred, Made

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• Go on loving what is good, simple, and ordinary.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Simple, Goes On

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• Do not try to be special. If you are simply ordinary, more ordinary than others, you will become extraordinary.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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• Some ideas are not born of logic and good sense. They are made of clouds and cobwebs. They sprout from nowhere and feed on excitement, sprinkled with adventure juice and the sweet flavor of the forbidden. The psyche moves from the realms of the ordinary and takes a delicate step towards the unknown. We know we shouldn't and that is exactly why we do.

  Brigid Lowry

  Sweet, Moving, Inspiration

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• Even the most exalted states and the most exceptional spiritual accomplishments are unimportant if we cannot be happy in the most basic and ordinary ways, if we cannot touch one another and the life we have been given with our hearts.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Heart, Accomplishment

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.19, Random House

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• As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alterations will become increasingly ordinary and unremarkable. The whole concept of changing states of consciousness will cease to have a threatening or exotic aspect.

  Michael Crichton

  Exotic, Consciousness, Threatening

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• Film as dream, film as music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul. A little twitch in our optic nerve, a shock effect: twenty-four illuminated frames a second, darkness in between, the optic nerve incapable of registering darkness.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Dream, Art, Twilight

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• The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word - extra.

  Bear Grylls

  Differences, Littles, Extras

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• Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men

  Tunku Abdul Rahman

  Men, Principles, Simplify

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• I try to be available for life to happen to me. We're in this life, and if you're not available, the sort of ordinary time goes past and you didn’t live it. But if you're available, life gets huge. You're really living it.

  Bill Murray

  Past, Trying, This Life

  "Charlie Rose", charlierose.com. February 10, 2014.

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• If you do anything out of the ordinary, you can be sure someone, somewhere, will get upset.

  Haruki Murakami

  Upset, Ifs

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• Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways.

  Roger von Oech

  People, Working Together, Way

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• So it is essential to bring more consciousness into your life in ordinary situations when everything is going relatively smoothly. In this way, you grow in presence power. It generates an energy field in you and around you of a high vibrational frequency. No unconsciousness , no negativity, no discord or violence can enter that field and survive, just as darkness cannot survive in the presence of light.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Light, Negativity, Darkness

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.75, New World Library

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• Don't underestimate what God can do with ordinary people.

  David Platt

  People, Underestimate, Can Do

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• Inspiration is that state in which mind and heart are connected. When you feel inspired you find yourself thrust into a world where ordinary objects and events are full of light, as if illuminated from within. This inner light is truth, and when you suddenly see the truth, we gain insight, clarity, and joy.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspiration, Heart, Light

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• Your greatest asset is your learning ability. The ordinary stroke their egos - the exceptional polishes their craft

  Robin Sharma

  Ego, Crafts, Assets

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• People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, People, Individual

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2008). “Man Alone with Himself”, p.8, Penguin UK

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• Dependence upon God makes heroes of ordinary people like you and me!

  Bruce Wilkinson

  Hero, People, Like You

  Bruce Wilkinson (2013). “The Prayer of Jabez for Teens”, p.67, Multnomah

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• The miracles of Jesus were the ordinary works of his Father, wrought small and swift that we might take them in.

  George MacDonald

  Jesus, Father, Miracle

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.12950, Delphi Classics

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• If you think you’re average, then you’ll be average. If you think you’re ordinary, then you’ll live ordinary. The truth is, there is nothing ordinary about you. You have something to offer that nobody else can offer.

  Joel Osteen

  Thinking, Average, Truth Is

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• Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!

  Jim Valvano

  People, Extras, Ordinary Things

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• We're just ordinary people. We don't know which way to go.

  John Legend

  People, Way, Knows

  Song: Ordinary People, Album: Get Lifted

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• Because Jesus was strong for me, I am free to be weak;
  because Jesus won for me, I am free to lose;
  because Jesus was someone, I am free to be no one;
  because Jesus was extraordinary, I am free to be ordinary;
  because Jesus succeeded for me, I am free to fail.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Jesus, Strong, Failing

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• When Laura Poitras asked me if she could film our encounters, I was extremely reluctant. I’m grateful that I allowed her to persuade me. The result is a brave and brilliant film that deserves the honor and recognition it has received. My hope is that this award will encourage more people to see the film and be inspired by its message that ordinary citizens, working together, can change the world.

  Edward Snowden

  Grateful, Awards, People

  "Edward Snowden Congratulates Laura Poitras For Winning Best Documentary Oscar For Citizenfour". www.aclu.org. February 22, 2015.

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