Top 100 Life Ordinary Quotes
#1. In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.
Jim Valvano
#2. What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.
V.C. Andrews
#3. Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.
Nelson Mandela
#4. Sun lighting a child's hair. A friend's embrace. Slow dancing in a safe and quiet place. The pleasures of an ordinary life.
Judith Viorst
#5. Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals.
Paulo Coelho
#6. Because in that moment, watching and listening, he was profoundly moved that God had seen fit to gift him, an ordinary man, an Indiana boy through and through, with these people in his life.
Kristen Ashley
#7. I don't know how easy that would be but I'd try just to lead an ordinary life again. Stay out of the papers.
Mark David Chapman
#8. Striving to live the ordinary life in a non-ordinary way.
Book Of Runes
#9. Take your everyday, ordinary life- your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life-and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for Him." (The Message)
Cody Bobay
#10. Yes, I am confusing literature with life. I'm declaring my own ordinary life to be a work of literature.
Tadeusz Konwicki
#11. I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
Kate Winslet
#12. If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things.
Idries Shah
#13. In certain almost supernatural states of the soul, the profundity of life reveals itself entirely in the spectacle, however ordinary it may be, before one's eyes. It becomes its symbol.
Charles Baudelaire
#14. I do sometimes miss living on the edge. The view from there takes your breath away.
Amy Molloy
#15. For a man who is in love with the existence, nothing is ordinary in life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#16. The ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.
Ellen Glasgow
#17. In strongly opposing the world of play to that of reality, and in stressing that play is essentially a side activity, the interference is drawn that any contamination by ordinary life runs the risk of corrupting and destroying its very nature.
Roger Caillois
#18. I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.
Ransom Riggs
#19. I'm not really managing the work-life balance, I'm just accepting that the work increases and the ordinary life has to decrease when you're the prime minister.
Tony Abbott
#20. I've lived this very dramatic life, with high points and terrible low points. Nothing has been ordinary, and I want to have the experience of the last breath. I want a little drama to it.
Dominick Dunne
#21. After all, life was not made up of moments of exaltation, but of quite ordinary, everyday things
Georgette Heyer
#22. I'm one of those people who was meant to have a very ordinary life. I have no special talent, no great beauty, nothing that distinguishes me from a hundred, thousand other girls. But I can't go through an entire lifetime without at least one night of magic.
Lisa Kleypas
#23. Personally, love is very important for me. There are lots of ordinary things in life, so love should be extraordinary. I hope I achieve that.
Ranbir Kapoor
#24. Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week's end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.
Patrick Ness
#25. We Are Always Scared of Wild Beasts, Yet We Are Unaware About The Wildest Beast Within Us Which Does More Harm Than The Ordinary One ...
Muhammad Imran Hasan
#26. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.
Judith Guest
#27. It seemed that a woman should remember the night a new life began inside her. Such a miracle should not be the result of routine or an ordinary coming together. Life should begin in a cataclysm of heat and fury bathed in the sweat of passion and urgency.
Maggie Osborne
#28. The joy of travel does not lie in reaching the destination, but in the companions met with on the journey, the changing scenery through which the traveller passes, and even the inconveniences that break up the monotony of the ordinary routine life.
A.R. Calhoon
#29. Facing another day, with ordinary callings to ordinary people all around us is much more difficult than chasing my own dreams that I have envisioned for the grand story of my life.
Michael S. Horton
#30. Myths are experienced in ordinary life, as everyday epiphanies.
Phil Cousineau
#32. Ordinary life surrounds me, and I am
alone with these revelations.
Veronica Roth
#33. Time makes the ordinary extraordinary and the extraordinary ordinary.
Kevin Focke
#34. Don't settle for ordinary. Dare to live a magical life.
Debasish Mridha
#35. So hollow and ineffectual, for the most part, is our ordinary conversation. Surface meets surface. When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip ... In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office.
Henry David Thoreau
#36. 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 we cannot touch one another and the life we have been given with our hearts.
Jack Kornfield
#37. Marriage is primarily an economic arrangement, an insurance pact. It differs from the ordinary life insurance agreement only in that it is more binding, more exacting.
Emma Goldman
#38. Christ's miracles were vivid manifestations to the senses that He is the Saviour of the body
and now as then the issues of life and death are in His hands
that our daily existence is a perpetual miracle. The extraordinary was simply a manifestation of God's power in the ordinary.
Frederick William Robertson
#39. All the students have shown more advance in two months of summer study than they have in a year of ordinary instruction, largely due to their free and wholesome life in the open air.
Howard Pyle
#40. After all, none of us came here to live an ordinary life. Whether we believe it or not, we are all destined for greatness.
Thea Euryphaessa
#43. Ordinary-size people, they don't know: their lives have been rehearsed and rehearsed by every single person who ever lived before them, inventions and improvements and unimportant notions each generation, each year. In 600BC somebody did something that makes your life easier today; in 1217, 1892.
Elizabeth McCracken
#44. All writers are obviously neurotic ... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both.
Christopher Koch
#45. Glamour is a beautiful illusion - the word 'glamour' originally meant a literal magic spell - that promises to transcend ordinary life and make the ideal real. It depends on a special combination of mystery and grace. Too much information breaks the spell.
Virginia Postrel
#46. I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
#48. Life is never ordinary, it is always a wonder, it is always magical.
Debasish Mridha
#49. You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.
Alain De Botton
#50. The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness.
Ruth Reichl
#51. When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary things are the best. I've always thought so.
Agatha Christie
#52. I see many people who disguise themselves. I know some people who say, "I'm an artist, I'm very creative, I'm different from ordinary people." But I don't believe those people. I like to see the strangeness or weirdness in ordinary people or ordinary scenery or ordinary, everyday life.
Haruki Murakami
#53. A home movie of a fictional home life, an epic assembled from vignettes, 'Boyhood' shimmers with unforced reality. It shows how an ordinary life can be reflected in an extraordinary movie.
Richard Corliss
#54. We must help men and women see the epic in the ordinary details of life.
Matt Chandler
#55. It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource.
Robert Collier
#56. Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?
Albert Schweitzer
#57. Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.
Oscar Wilde
#58. Renaissance artist Gregorio Comanini, has counseled the equivalent of Live an ordinary, regular life so you can be irregular and brilliant in your creativity.
Jeff VanderMeer
#59. Life at times, gives the most unexpected and shocking outcome for the most ordinary person, leading to extraordinary tales.
Arvind Parashar
#60. They were just the ordinary sounds of of people beginning their day, silly raucous, discordant, but they were the most beautiful sounds on earth, the sounds of living people.
Karen Maitland
#61. Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through, and see those whom one lives come through.
E. M. Forster
#62. I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.
Ransom Riggs
#63. It is only when you pay attention to ordinary people that you convince God that you are really serving Him
Sunday Adelaja
#64. Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing
difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is
simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
Brian Tracy
#65. I love the razor's edge. I want to be cut open. My terror is of a bourgeois, ordinary life. I can't bear the everyday constraint. I believe that ordinariness would put out my spark, such as it is.
Hanif Kureishi
#66. As a spirit schooled to power, his perception stems from one absolute. Universal harmony begins with recognition that the life in an ordinary pebble is as sacred as conscious selfhood.
Janny Wurts
#67. It frightens me that when I'm writing I seem to have some awful second sight, or something like it, an intuition of some kind; a kind of intelligence is at work that is much too painful to use in ordinary life; one couldn't live at all if one used it for living.
Doris Lessing
#68. I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.
Eric Rohmer
#69. The more one lives alone on the river or in the open country, the clearer it becomes that nothing is more beautiful or great than to perform the ordinary duties of one's daily life simply and naturally.
Rabindranath Tagore
#70. The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations.
Brian Pinkerton
#71. It's about the terror of an ordinary life" or "It's the story of a man shipwrecked in his own mind." But
Joe Hill
#72. To live an extraordinary life, you must resist an ordinary approach.
Frank McKinney
#73. Lucien was a whole lot of trouble because he made her want things she couldn't possibly have. He made ordinary life feel pale and insipid, a watered-down version of the existence she'd tasted that had him in it.
Kitty French
#74. All the ordinary circumstances of life, without which nothing could be imagined, ceased to exist for Levin.
Leo Tolstoy
#75. The more committees you belong to, the less of ordinary life you will understand. When your daily round becomes nothing more than a daily round of committees you might as well be dead.
Stella Benson
#76. I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life.
Martha Reeves
#77. Either we learn to find the Lord in the ordinary everyday life or else we shall never find him
Josemaria Escriva
#78. I was struck to my heart and through my heart, knocked clean out of my ordinary life.
Stephen King
#79. Don't let the magic slip away," he says, "or you'll sink into the quicksand of the ordinary.
Elena Gorokhova
#80. I went to an ordinary school in New York City with no other actors. I learned to compartmentalise different parts of my life. I was one person at home and then another person at work and for that reason my career didn't challenge my family life.
Brooke Shields
#81. She was like a musician who may be an odious vulgarian in ordinary life, devoid of tact and taste; but who will hear a false note in music with diabolical accuracy of judgment.
Anonymous
#82. I've always had a fear of being small and ordinary. How can I just have this one life?
Meg Wolitzer
#83. One of the difficulties about interviewing people in Rwanda is that the country is trying to get on with ordinary life and some people just don't want to get involved in this.
Tony Greig
#84. Ordinary people, even weak people, can do extraordinary things through temporary courage generated by a situation. But the person of character does not need the situation to generate his courage. It is a part of his being and a standard approach to all life's challenges.
Michael Josephson
#85. The company of true friends, the taste of good food, the blossoms in spring, all the ordinary things that make the texture and meaning of life
Alison Croggon
#86. In this life, your so-called ordinary life, you must be rooted; and in your inner space, in the spiritual life, you must be weightless and flying and flowing, floating.
Rajneesh
#87. Life gives to all the choice. You can satisfy yourself with mediocrity if you wish. You can be common, ordinary, dull, colorless, or yyou can channel your life so that it will be clean, vibrant, useful, progressive, colorful, and rich.
Spencer W. Kimball
#88. Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
#90. The ex-pat's life with all its homesickness and loneliness and privileges and perks, with its dizzy ups and miserable downs, was certainly not ordinary.
Brigid Keenan
#91. I went camping in the Maasai Mara and we moved site every night. I had no idea how spectacular it would be, how removed from ordinary life, or how many animals we would see.
Georgina Chapman
#92. When I look back on my ordinary, ordinary life, I see so much magic, though I missed it at the time.
Jamie Cullum
#93. Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not for me.
Edna O'Brien
#94. Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another, and bump up against one another, in the course of ordinary life.
Michael Sandel
#95. There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.
Frances O'Grady
#96. If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
George Eliot
#97. Any given moment - no matter how casual, how ordinary - is poised, full of gaping life.
Anne Michaels
#98. No matter what the other fifty odd weeks of his life offered, here, at least for a few days, he was officially a very special person in an otherwise ordinary world.
Lisa Luciano
#99. If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every chance that his or her life as a shapely story has ended and all that remains to be experienced is epilogue. Life is not over, but the story is.
Kurt Vonnegut
#100. The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.
Bertrand Russell
