Quotes About Normalcy

I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.

For the first five years of my life, I grew up in a log cabin in coastal British Columbia in a very small town, like 300 people, mostly hippies. No running water, no electricity. When I was 12, I changed my name from Dharma to Stewart. At that age, you just want to be normal.

I don't see it as a disability. I'm just a normal person, but a bit smaller than everyone else.

None of us are really dumb and none of us are really smart. We're in the middle.

I love the smell of clean laundry. Working in the garden and getting my hands dirty. Doing the dishes. These are the things that make me feel normal.

I'm a normal person, and I like living this way - and always with a smile in my face.

Everyone else has days when they don't want to smile, when you just want to come in and be regular.

Whatever I read about Emergency as a part and process of my film, I can say, as a citizen of a democratic country called India, I am certainly not 'for' Emergency, a decision that snatched away the normalcy of human life for 21 months.

For the most part, I meet people who are like 'I really like your work. I'm watching your career. I want to see you do well. Keep doing what you do.' I get that so much, and it's so reassuring. I often wish that so many people, who just work normal jobs, could get a pat on the back as much as I do, because it's very complimentary.

Those who see beauty almost too intensely can easily look mad to those who are functioning within the confines of so-called normal life.

I consider myself an average person, except for the fact that I consider myself an average person.

I'd rather be happy and odd than miserable and ordinary,' she said, sticking her chin in the air.

Very young children are not afraid to express what they feel. They are so loving that if they perceive love, they melt into love. They are not afraid to love at all. That is the description of a normal human being.

Very young children are not afraid to express what they feel. They are so loving that if they perceive love, they melt into love. They are not afraid to love at all. That is the description of a normal human being. As children we are not afraid of the future or ashamed of the past. Our normal human tendency is to enjoy life, to play, to explore, to be happy, and to love.

I don't have any special talents, just an ordinary desire to live like a human being.

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No hay nada de particular en los cuerpos desnudos! ¡Son normales! ¡Todo lo que es normal, es bello!

I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.

I love seeing black people do normal things, being judged as normal people.

I didn't want it to be this way. Yes, you did, she said, because it is. I just want to be with someone normal, he said. I just want to have a normal life. Excuse me, she said. You're a little crazy, he said. You're too old to act the way you do. You've got to grow up. You've got to take care of yourdelf. I'm afraid for you. You can't think that people are going to take care of you all the time.

I think it's IMPOSSIBLE for anyone famous to come from here, because everyone around here is insane.

It's a popular fact that 90 percent of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. . . . It is used. One of its functions is to make the miraculous seem ordinary, to turn the unusual into the usual. Otherwise, human beings, faced with the daily wondrousness of everything, would go around wearing a stupid grin, saying "Wow," a lot. Part of the brain exists to stop this from happening.

They think they want good government and justice for all, Vimes, yet what is it they really crave, deep in their hearts? Only that things go on as normal and tomorrow is pretty much like today.

What we're going to do is keep the peace. That's our job. We're not going to be heroes, we're just going to be ... normal.