Quotes About Ordinary

The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them.

Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world.

We spend so little time in the present moment that it's anything but ordinary.

The world was made up of people putting one foot in front of the other; and a life might appear ordinary simply because the person living it had been doing so for a long time.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the greatest teachers of our time. He reaches from the heights of insight down to the deepest places of the absolutely ordinary.

Dear Kitty, Nothing special going on here.

I look upon our life in hiding as an interesting adventure, full of danger and romance, and every privatisation as an amusing addition to my diary. I've made up my mind to lead a different life from other girls, and not to become an ordinary housewife later on.

I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any given moment, we might improve, or at least disguise or present our defects and screw-ups in either more charming or more intimidating ways.

Holiness has most often been revealed to me in the exquisite pun of the first syllable, in holes- in not enough help, in brokenness, mess. High holy places, with ethereal sounds and stained glass, can massage my illusion of holiness, but in holes and lostness I can pick up the light of small ordinary progress, newly made moments flecked like pepper into the slog and the disruptions.

sometimes when you need to feel the all-embracing nature of God, paradoxically you need to hang out in the ordinariness, in daily ritual and comfort.

Death is...usually doable, astonishing but plain.

It's stunning, how a great trauma can also be so ordinary.

In unfolding, we are enfolded, and there is a melding of spirits, a melding of times, eternal, yesterday morning, the now, the ancient, even as we meet beneath a digital clock on the wall, flipping its numbers, keeping ordinary time in all that timelessness.

I think all of us ordinary mortals tend to mythologize people as good-looking as you.

He looked at me, and his mouth worked the miracle of the ordinary smile.

Mom? Was there a certain conscious point in your life when you decided to settle for being ordinary?' 

Or maybe it wasn't a quirk at all. Maybe it was just further proof that the Whitshanks were not remarkable in any way whatsoever.

The first thing I tell people is, I'm just an ordinary woman. I'm just like you, I say, I can see they don't believe me.

What I do like listening to as I write is the sound of ordinary life out in the street—children playing and workmen talking.

No one knew that ordinary breakfast would be their last. Why not memorize everything, just in case?

The old rule was this: CREATE SAFE, ORDINARY PRODUCTS AND COMBINE THEM WITH GREAT MARKETING. The new rule is: CREATE REMARKABLE PRODUCTS THAT THE RIGHT PEOPLE SEEK OUT.

The most common response to the Dip is to play it safe. To do ordinary work, blameless work, work that's beyond reproach. When faced with the Dip, most people suck it up and try to average their way to success.

The problem with meeting expectations is that it's not remarkable.