Quotes About Normalcy

These are the soporifics of normalcy, my days in middling drift.

What I'm saying is I think life is staggering and we're just used to it.

When stress becomes a habit mentally, emotionally, and physically, a default setting on our inner dial, then it becomes "normal" and we no longer notice its presence. But the stress is still there, and it affects how we perceive, feel, and react to events in our lives. And stress is the major cause of anxiety.

She had done as much as possible to create a stable, gloriously dull life for herself

And then, there have always been days when my mind does not make connections very fast. There are always days when my mind is cloudy, or I forget things, or I feel as if I am in a different town or a different house—that something around me or about me is not normal.

It is ever the lot of children to accept their circumstances as universal, and their particularities as general.

Deegan elaborated that the goal of such recovery "is not to become normal" or to "get mainstreamed," but to "embrace our human vocation of becoming more deeply, more fully human.

We aren't eccentric, we're not bizarre. To each other, we're as normal and nice as the smell of bread, we were just a family. In a family, even exaggerations make perfect sense; they are always logical exaggerations, nothing more.

I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar—you live next to the strange and the unlikely for so long that everything and everyone become commonplace.

You wouldn't be normal if you were never afraid. Even the bravest men experience fear. One of the biggest jobs we all face in combat is to overcome fear.

To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.

Being an ordinary scientist and an ordinary Christian seems perfectly natural to me. It is also perfectly natural for the many scientists I know who are also people of deep religious faith.

Some people wish to be pretty/ handsome and famous, or popular but me, I just want to be normal and always happy.

Only decades later would it dawn on me that normal people who never deal with depression have a sense of self-worth automatically. Just by being a person on the earth, they feel themselves worthy of respect and love and all that other cool stuff.

The steps to degradation are only three: the actuality of the shameful condition, the recognition of the actuality while feeling unable to do anything about it, and then acceptance of it as the normal state of affairs.

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sooner or later, everything simply becomes daily life. When Haden's first struck, it was the most important news story of the century. Everyone knew it. Everyone felt it. But then it just… became part of the fabric of the American story, day in and day out.

Noah the first-born, tall and strange, walking always with a wondering look on his face, calm and puzzled. He had never been angry in his life. He looked in wonder at angry people, wonder and uneasiness, as normal people look at the insane.

No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.

We all come from dysfunctional families and these days I guess that's pretty normal.

Being famous is wicked but its cool to be normal as well.

I do not like being famous. I like being normal.

Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

Being famous is wicked. But it's better to be normal.