Quotes About Normalcy

I think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace.

You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

Not to mention the medicine! I take nine pills every day, each for something different—blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar, tranquilizer. Need I go on? I look completely normal, but I take nine pills a day for that.

It is remarkable what children will accept as normal, especially when their experiences have been sufficiently broad.

Normal people are just freaks who are afraid to be themselves in public.

Keep being yourself as well. Many times when life gets us down, all we desire for is some normalcy after tragedy.

I really can't deny it, I am who I am. I'm pretty normal. I'm not that smooth type of girl. I run into things, I trip, I spill food. I say stupid things... I really don't have it all together.

Hoy fue un día feliz; solo rutina.

la realidad es mucho más vulgar, más mediocre, más chata.

Tomorrow will have a diet in it, maybe not a go-for-broke diet or even one that involves tracking calories, but I will always be conscious of what I eat and how much I exercise. That's why body neutrality doesn't feel like a good fit: I'm never going to stop wanting to be thinner or to stop chasing it. I know my life will always be this way, and I'm okay with that. That acceptance, even if it's an uneasy one, is my new normal.

Our normal is so subnormal that normal seems radical. To the first-century disciples, normal and radical were synonyms. We've turned them into antonyms.

Our normal is so subnormal that normal seems radical.

Our very human to simplify and seek one answer may explain our ongoing difficulty in recognizing impending synergy and acting before systems collapse. We are prone to accept death by a thousand little cuts, in which one degraded aspect of our environment or health becomes familiar and accepted as normal--and then another.

It's common in the middle of a drought . . . to forget that rain is the norm. Or in the middle of a flood to forget that floods rarely happen. Or when bad news comes from the doctor to forget that, for most of us, this comes after many years of relatively good health.

It's funny how heterosexuals have lives and the rest of us have "lifestyles."

The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.

The biggest gift of being unambiguously mentally ill is the time I've saved myself trying to be normal.

A world without prejudice, stigma, and discrimination against those who have or are thought to have mental illness would be a better one for everyone. What so-called normal people are doing when they define disease like manic depression or schizophrenia is reassuring themselves that they don't have a thought disorder or an affective disorder, that their thoughts and feelings make perfect sense.

Sara suddenly had celebrity. Funny thing was, the sun didn't rise any later. The cow didn't milk herself, the weeds didn't stop growing, the tub of wash water didn't get any lighter, and corn bread didn't miraculously appear on plates every night. Day to day, Sara's life didn't change one whit. At least not right away.

Even the strangest situations become normal if one knows nothing else.

Normal = neutral expression concealing existential despair and brain-crushing boredom.)

Ik denk dat ik domweg te normaal ben. - Ayesha

They are normal children who are more intense, persistent, sensitive, perceptive, and uncomfortable with change than other children.