No Ordinary Moments Quotes

#1. There are no ordinary moments.

Dan Millman

#2. For there are no ordinary moments.
There are only precious feelings and memories we piece together one by one. We call it a lifetime.
~~ Riley Rosemont, from "Roses in Winter" by Leslie D. Stuart

Leslie D. Stuart

#3. God created every one of us to be successful. Before the foundation of the world, He laid out an exact plan for our lives. And in this plan He has moments of favor that will come across our path. These moments are not ordinary. They are destiny-altering moments.

Joel Osteen

#4. Well, that's what life is - this collection of extraordinarily ordinary moments. We just need to pay attention to them all. Wake up and pay attention to how beautiful it all is.

Alexander Payne

#5. It was extraordinary how tumultuous historical moments could be replayed right here in this ordinary little moment as she drove down the Pacific Highway

Liane Moriarty

#6. For them, it was nothing but an ordinary day on an ordinary day on an ordinary weekend, but for her, there was something revelatory about the notion that wonderful moments like these existed.

Nicholas Sparks

#7. I couldn't remember ordinary moments, only the ones that had made an impression. Ordinary moments were the ones that fell away first.

David Levithan

#8. deliberately look for God in the ordinary moments of everyday life.

John Ortberg

#9. The ordinary is ultimately what moves us most deeply. It's what touches us, and it's what we most recognize, in great moments of art.

Lorraine Toussaint

#10. Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher's stone which turns our ordinary days to gold. But not the whole day ... For it is never the whole day, never all our life which is transformed in any happiness, but only the exquisite moments.

Nan Fairbrother

#11. If you're at the sink washing the cup, wash the cup. Don't worry about everything else ... We forget to appreciate the simplest moments of the day, the sublime in the ordinary.

Julia Roberts

#12. Natalie Bakopoulos has that rare gift, the ability to imagine a traumatic historical event in the form of individual lives and ordinary details. The Green Shore is compelling, personal, and full of quietly real moments,

Elizabeth Kostova

#13. Nothing distinguishes memories from ordinary moments. Only later do they make themselves known, from their scars. - Chris Marker

Zeina Abirached

#14. We are not made for brilliant moments, but we have to walk in the light of them in ordinary ways.

Oswald Chambers

#15. The true moments of one's life were sadder for the fact that they must always be synchronized with the ordinary: with rail timetables, with breaks in traffic.

Chris Cleave

#16. Bliss and joy come in moments of living our highest truth
moments when what we do is consistent with our archetypal depths. It's when we are most authentic and trusting, and feel that whatever we are doing, which can be quite ordinary, is nonetheless sacred.

Jean Shinoda Bolen

#17. What is particularly intriguing, in fact, is that whereas many peoples tend to locate this experience (of the sacred) in certain unusual, if not 'supernatural' moments and circumstances ... the Oriental focus is upon mystery in the most obvious, ordinary, mundane-the most natural-situations of life.

Conrad Hyers

#18. The people who matter in our lives stay with us, haunting our most ordinary moments.

Christina Baker Kline

#19. Extraordinary change can happen in your life, but it will take extraordinary people, extraordinary courage and extraordinary faith to believe that this won't be a repeat of your past.

Shannon L. Alder

#20. Pain and betrayal and then nothingness. That's the death and she's almost welcoming it.

M.C. Frank

#21. A good life happens when you stop and are grateful for the ordinary moments that so many of us just steamroll over to try to find those extraordinary moments.

Brene Brown

#22. After all, life was not made up of moments of exaltation, but of quite ordinary, everyday things

Georgette Heyer

#23. Stories are the rich, unseen underlayer of the most ordinary moments.

Mary Gaitskill

#24. Monks committed all the same sins that ordinary people did. He had just been shocked by the woman's shamelessness. The sight of her nakedness remained with him, the way the hot heart of a candle flame, stared at for a few moments, would burn on behind closed eyelids.

Ken Follett

#25. That's the point. People look for greatness only in the extraordinary and completely overlook the wonder of the ordinary. That's why those moments are all forgotten, counted as nothing. It's a terrible loss.

Ann Tatlock

#26. Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life.

Brian Andreas

#27. All the bravery that lines our lives, in the ordinary moments adds up to an extraordinary, successful life.

Andrea T. Goeglein

#28. Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary

Diane Keaton

#29. Joy comes to us in moments - ordinary moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary. Scarcity culture may keep us afraid of living small, ordinary lives, but when you talk to people who have survived great losses, it is clear that joy is not a constant.

Brene Brown

#30. I asked a lot of friends and people I'd meet, "Can you tell me a story of a micro-aggression that happened to you in a place you didn't expect it to happen?" I wasn't interested in scandal, or outrageous moments. I was interested in the surprise of the intimate, or the surprise of the ordinary.

Claudia Rankine

#31. It's about recognizing that the great movements and moments in history laid on the backs of ordinary people who simply chose to do extraordinary things.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#32. We are not made for the mountains, for sunrises, or for the other beautiful attractions in life - those are simply intended to be moments of inspiration. We are made for the valley and the ordinary things of life and that is where we have to prove our stamina and strength.

Oswald Chambers

#33. God can use the ordinary moments in your life to glorify himself by conforming you into the image of his Son. That is precisely what he intends to do.

Gloria Furman

#34. We look at each other, at random and totally ordinary moments, and just say the words "happy days"! And by doing that we constantly remind ourselves that any average day with each other is plainly happy.

Andreas Souvaliotis

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

Andy Puddicombe

#36. At its finest moments climbing allows me to step out of ordinary existence into something extraordinary, stripping me of my sense of self-importance.

Doug Scott

#37. The opportunity for greater courage comes in the most ordinary of moments.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#38. Still I would die tomorrow knowing I spend a handful of breathless moments with you than live a lifetime of ordinary breathing.

N.R. Hart