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An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.
- Susan Orlean
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Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.
- Thomas Merton
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By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.
- Henry Miller
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you could be ordinary and attempt something extraordinary, without being able to explain it in a logical way.
- Rachel Joyce
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The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry.
- Kathleen Norris
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Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
- Carl Bernstein
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Because it proves that you don't need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordinary ingredients. You can start with the world you've got.
- Catherine Ryan Hyde
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It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away
- Anne Tyler
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Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.
- Cecelia Ahern
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It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
- Veronica Roth
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Don't expect anything ordinary from me, i'm weird, and i like myself as i am
- Tablo
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The ordinary is the divine.
- Cynthia Ozick
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A day can start out ordinary and end up being in the top ten. —Joe Bunch
- James Howe
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There has never been, and never again will be a human being like you. There is nothing ordinary about you. If you feel ordinary, it is because you have chosen to hide the extraordinary parts of yourself from the world.
- Barbara De Angelis
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Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.
- Robin Morgan
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I saw that I was in danger of becoming ordinary, and I understood that from now on I would have to be vigilant.
- Steven Millhauser
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Any given moment - no matter how casual, how ordinary - is poised, full of gaping life.
- Anne Michaels
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It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the ordinary about you.
- Abigail Tarttelin
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As always with any discussion of elite immunity, it's crucial to note that what makes this development such a particularly warped travesty is that the very same elites who enjoy this immunity have created the world's largest, and the Western world's most oppressive and merciless, penal state for ordinary citizens.
- Glenn Greenwald
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Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me
- Marilynne Robinson
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I didn't want to be a loser, but I didn't want to fit in at the same time because I don't like just being ordinary. So it's one of those situations where I always kept my head up.
- ASAP Rocky
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Be content with an ordinary life.
- Laozi
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Death is ordinary. Behold it, subtract its patterns and lessons from those of the death that weapons bring, and maybe the residue will show what violence is.
- William T. Vollmann
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Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary.
- Elisabeth Elliot
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If you truly want to escape the ordinary, you'll simply need to keep evolving. Whether what you seek is above or below.
- Ryohgo Narita
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There are no ordinary lives.
- Ken Burns
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If you don’t see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, you’re not going to resonate very much.
- Artie Shaw
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If we want to keep farmers in business, it's time for all of us, ordinary citizens and policy makers alike, to begin learning how that might be done. Sharing the Harvest is a great place to start.
- Joan Dye Gussow
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What separates an ordinary woman from an extraordinary one? The belief that she is ordinary.
- Jody Williams
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I cannot understand it, after all I am only a very ordinary sort of fellow.
- George V
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There was nothing ordinary about Hank Gathers. He was a walking thunderbolt.
- Paul Westhead
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Even the most ordinary life is a mystery if you look close enough.
- Ingrid Bengis
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If you feel weak, limited, ordinary, you are the best material through which God can work.
- Henry Blackaby
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I don't understand the whole thrilling verse, but I love the way poetry turns ordinary words into winged things that rise up and soar!
- Margarita Engle
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You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It's made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.
- Benedict Cumberbatch
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If our culture is to be transformed, it will happen from the bottom up - from ordinary believers practicing apologetics over the backyard fence or around the barbecue grill.
- Charles Colson
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I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.
- Ransom Riggs
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And she is your holy Mary. And I am so ordinary.
- Paula Cole
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I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done.
- Andre Kertesz
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How can you do anything extraordinary by doing things the ordinary way?
- Ryan Buell
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I’d rather be happy and odd than miserable and ordinary.
- Michelle Magorian
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Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.
- Bernard Cornwell
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Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.
- Wayne Thiebaud
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SEEK AND YOU WILL FIND. DON'T BE WILLING TO ACCEPT AN ORDINARY LIFE.
- Salle Merrill Redfield
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Looking for meaning in the ordinary seems like the most urgent thing that we can do.
- Ian Bogost
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What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.
- Virginia C. Andrews
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The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal - a telephone is a veritable time scatterer.
- Beatrice Webb
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I don’t do ordinary work. That is not me in the least.
- Desiree Rogers
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I still maintain that an ordinary human being has the right to be horrified by a mangled body seen on an afternoon walk.
- Timothy Findley
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All truth is very ordinary.
- Brian Perkins
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