Ordinary Quotes - Page 34

• The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary every day routine.

  Thomas Merton

  Routine, Way, Spirituality

  Thomas Merton (2002). “The Sign of Jonas”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The world is divided into the ordinary and the extraordinary. The problem is deciding which is which.

  Piero Scaruffi

  World, Problem, Divided

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• To face one who is extraordinary,I cant allow myself to be ordinary

  Zoro

  Faces, Extraordinary, Cant

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• A wound that’d make an ordinary man unconscious, I won’t lose to it. A wound that would kill an ordinary person, I won’t lose to it! To face one who is extraordinary, Hawk Eyes - I can’t allow myself to be ordinary!

  Zoro

  Eye, Men, Hawks

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• If we do the ordinary, God will add an extra to it.

  Mark Batterson

  Add, Gods Will, Extras

  Mark Batterson (2012). “Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge”, p.177, Zondervan

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• God loves to use ordinary people just like you and me, faults and all, to do extraordinary things.

  Joel Osteen

  People, Use, Faults

  Joel Osteen (2008). “Starting Your Best Life Now: A Guide for New Adventures and Stages on Your Journey”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• What art should do, I think, is advance the generation into the next era. It should be one step ahead of the ordinary, ahead of what is already known. Art is what pulls on the next age. I’m not saying that my art is that, but that it would be good if it could be.

  Andy Couturier

  Art, Thinking, Age

  Andy Couturier (2010). “A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance”, p.278, Stone Bridge Press

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• Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows.

  Mark Batterson

  Prayer, Children, Destiny

  FaceBook post by Mark Batterson from Nov 22, 2014

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• If we transform our ordinary mind into love and compassion we will naturally act in a positive way.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Compassion, Mind, Way

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2000). “Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness”, p.227, Tharpa Publications UK

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• Man is in need if a symbolical life- badly in need. We only live banal, ordinary, rational or irrational things- but we have no symbolic life. Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life

  Carl Jung

  Men, Needs, Irrational

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• Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self.

  Susan Griffin

  Change, Hate, Self

  Susan Griffin (2015). “Pornography and Silence: Culture's Revenge Against Nature”, p.170, Open Road Media

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• It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at home. I was taking down some curtains. I took one step, turned around, took another step and then I fell and hit my head hard on the rowing machine.

  Jonah Lomu

  Fall, Home, Ordinary Days

  "Jonah Lomu - The road back" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2005.

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• It is very difficult to be like the other guy, to be ordinary. Mediocrity takes a great deal of energy. But to be ourselves is very easy. You don't have to do a thing.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Being Yourself, Guy, Energy

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• One of the big draws of the show is here's a guy who is ordinary in a lot of ways but, due to his profession, he's placed in extraordinary situations that he has to make right with action and with thought. That's what is appealing about Jack - he takes charge.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Guy, Way, Action

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• We have to say now we think the character of the party has changed so far it will take something very exceptional, something really out of the ordinary line to make us be convinced there's a chance of winning back the party.

  Shirley Williams

  Party, Character, Winning

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• Jerry reversed the usual formula of the superhero who goes to another planet. He put the superhero in ordinary, familiar surroundings, instead of the other way around, as was done in most science fiction. That was the first time I can recall that it had ever been done.

  Joe Shuster

  Science, Artist, Superhero

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• The theory has to be interpreted that extra dimensions beyond the ordinary four dimensions the three spatial dimensions plus time are sufficiently small that they haven't been observed yet.

  Edward Witten

  Time, Three, Four

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• It is rather astonishing how little practical value scientific knowledge has for ordinary men, how dull and commonplace such of it as has value is, and how its value seems almost to vary inversely to its reputed utility.

  G. H. Hardy

  Knowledge, Science, Men

  G. H. Hardy (1992). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.117, Cambridge University Press

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• Abandon fancy theologies and imaginary ideas and do some ordinary daily work... {Engage in this work with} unswerving kindness and unending patience.

  Laozi

  Kindness, Work, Ideas

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• Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay strewn around the castle. Whenever I did, it seemed so insipid and insubstantial that I flew into a rage and hurled it at the wall after reading the first few sentences. I was spoilt for any other form of literature, and the mental torment I endured was comparable to the agony of unrequited love compounded by the withdrawal symptoms associated with a severe addiction.

  Walter Moers

  Love, Wall, Book

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• He had thought love as a policy made a lot of sense for those who could manage it, and anyone who could manage it belonged in religious life. The rest of us have to struggle with more ordinary love, the common or garden variety: love as a crippling condition. Love as a syndrome.

  Gregory Maguire

  Love, Religious, Struggle

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• Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Doe, Murder, Poet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.243, Harvard University Press

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• The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you've killed or who was the braver and stronger if you have to peer through layers of glass that deliver the image but obscure the meaning of the act? War has a conscience or it's ordinary murder.

  Don DeLillo

  War, Men, Glasses

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• There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds; a snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.

  John Galsworthy

  Stars, Spring, Sunset

  John Galsworthy (2001). “The Forsyte Saga”, p.145, Wordsworth Editions

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• From the first moment a woman dared to speak that hope - dared to believe that the American Dream was meant for her too - ordinary women have taken on extraordinary odds to give their daughters the chance for something else; for a life more equal, more free, and filled with more opportunity than they ever had. In so many ways we have succeeded, but in so many areas we have much work left to do.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Daughter, Freedom

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