Quotes About Ordinary

You might be surprised at the strength of the fragile. And for some people it is ordinary life that is most challenging, not so much the extraordinary.

Just continue in your calm, ordinary practice and your character will be built up.

W]hen your practice is calm and ordinary, everyday life itself is enlightenment.

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

But in real life, most all of the extraordinary things happen with no more loudness than a whisper.

The ordinary can be absolutely miraculous.

I seek no longer to be a 'famous' person, and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life.

Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in you humdrum routine, the true poetry of life - the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary person, of the plain, toilworn, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and griefs.

To forget is ordinary. Even people in mourning, distracted by some little happiness, forget the dead.

But don't you think that everybody is finally the same in the most essential ways? Some lives are probably much duller than others, but it's impossible to know how people live inside themselves, isn't it? I mean, a life could seem boring on the outside and be tumultuous within. Isn't cruelty more contemptible than ordinariness?

Basically, I'm a really bad interviewer. I love meeting celebrities, but then I get a bit bored. Once you meet them you thing, 'really, what an ordinary person'.

It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.

I like the normal things of life: I like the Mets, and the Celtics, and the N.Y. Rangers. I like to watch C-Span; I love Costco.

Ordinary people love entertainment. Extraordinary people adore education.

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There is one word to describe the night He came - ordinary... But God dances amidst the common. And that night He did a waltz.

But God dances amidst the common.

Does Jesus still do it? Does he still use ordinary folks as his witnesses? You bet! The only real question is: Will you witness?

There were moments when Hilary saw life as tending always towards chaos, when it seemed that all one could be asked was just to keep the ashtrays clean, the bed made, the wastebaskets emptied, as if one never got to the real things because of the constant exhausting battle to keep ordinary life from falling apart.

Hilary saw life as tending always toward chaos when it seemed that all one could be asked was just to keep the ashtrays clean, the bed made, the wastebaskets emptied, as if one never got to the real things because of the constant exhausting battle to keep ordinary life from falling apart.

When you learn to be aware and relax into the ordinary, it will be easier to relax in the stressful moments when you need clarity and focus.

So, there you have it, you get up and go to school, thinking it's just another ordinary day and the next thing you know, something totally unexpected happens! Life's like that. I guess it's like Forrest Gump said about the box of chocolates-you just never know what you're going to get!

All other spiritual teachings are in vain if we cannot love. Even the most exalted states and the most exceptional spiritual accomplishments are unimportant if we cannot be happy in the most basic and ordinary ways, if, with our hearts, we cannot touch one another and the life we have been given. What matters is how we live. - Jack Kornfield

Everyone understands that the content is constant, frequently ordinary, and sometimes banal; that the (wide) variation, the arena for expression and excellence, the fun, the art—it's all in the individual style.