O Quotes
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“Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.”
“Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”
“Ordinary life was laced with miracles, I knew that, had read enough poetry to understand that we are elevated with the knowing, and yet it was difficult to notice and be grateful when one was continually fatigued and irritated. I suppose that unquenchable sense of wonder is what separates us dolts from the saints and the poets.”
“Ordinary love is demand and expectations, real love is sharing. Real love knows nothing of demands and expectations; real love is the joy of sharing. Love knows only giving and never asks for anything in return.
Ordinary love is greed hoarding. Greed only wants and never gives. Ordinary love pretends, real love is real and authentic. Real love is nourishment, it strengthens your
soul. Ordinary love strengthens your ego. Ordinary love is conditional love, real love is unconditional love.”
Source: The Call of the Heart
“Ordinary love is mere animal attraction. Otherwise why is the distinction between the sexes? If one kneels before an image, it is dreadful idolatry; but if one kneels before husband or wife, it is quite permissible!”
Source: Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: Art of living
“Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions. Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change. The flux of the human heart is gone forever at the transfixing touch of pure love.”
“Ordinary men are given the authority of the priesthood. Worthiness and willingness - not experience, expertise, or education - are the qualifications for priesthood ordination.”
“Ordinary men commit extraordinary evil all the time. Trust me.”
Source: Everything You Want Me to Be
“Ordinary men commonly condemn what is beyond them.”
“Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.”
“Ordinary men earns responsibility towards their family, extraordinary men earns duty towards their nation.”
“Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.”
“Ordinary men live in fear all the time. Didn't you know that? We're afraid of the weather, we're afraid of powerful men, we're afraid of the night and the monsters that lurk in the dark, we're afraid of growing old and of dying. Sometimes we're even afraid of living. Ordinary men are afraid almost every minute of their lives.”
Source: Magician's Gambit: Book Three Of The Belgariad
“Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don't often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more, and they are content to wait and let things be, but to those who are doomed to be shut out for ever you cannot think what it means, you cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.”
Source: Dracula's Guest: & Other Stories
“Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Notice what you notice. Observe what's vivid. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. And remember the future.”
“Ordinary morality is innate in my view.”
“Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.”
“Ordinary mortals can't create Paradise. We can, however, strive for Utopia. Never mind that we haven't quite gotten there yet. We're working on it.”
Source: Is It Utopia Yet?: An Insider's View of Twin Oaks Community in Its Twenty-Sixth Year
“Ordinary parties, he thought, were subtle games of sexual and social badminton.”
Source: The Shipping News
“Ordinary people - churches, too - have a role to force politicians to respond. Governments are not impressed with theories, but governments are impressed with people who change their minds about things.”
“Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.”
“Ordinary people are products of their environment and fit in. Artists transcend their environment and stand out.”
“Ordinary people are very capable of making a difference in this world, and we are but the ordinary people are we not; but change – real, monumental, change – is made by the fiercest of persons, and only you can decide which person you wish to become.”
Source: The Apprentice
“Ordinary people aren't going to give up emotions and inspiration just because science sniffs at subjectivity. Science shouldn't be so edgy and defensive. Vandals aren't going to smash their way into laboratories and throw Bibles at the equipment.”
“Ordinary People Attain Extraordinary Success - You Can Too!”
“Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible”
“Ordinary people can bring about change.”
“Ordinary people can do extraordinary things that can change the course of history.”
“Ordinary people can do extraordinary things when their faith is greater than their fear.”
“Ordinary people can do extraordinary things.”
“Ordinary people can spread good and bad information about brands faster than marketers.”
“Ordinary people do not question the commonly accepted version of reality. They conform to the standard values of subduing enemies and cherishing friends and family. Materialism, ambition and mundane achievements are the worldly hallmarks of success. We experience the phenomenal world and our minds as solid and truly existent. Very few people doubt these assertions and question their solidity. Yet, the process of disbelief is the first step on the spiritual path.”
“Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.”
Source: The diary of a young girl
“Ordinary people have an extremely important role to play in fighting climate change. Not only can you make your home more energy efficient, drive less, and eat more local food - you can also tell your leaders to take climate action.”
“Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries.”
“Ordinary people have extraordinary love.”
“Ordinary people, he had noticed, tended to do what they were told, as long as they were given orders by someone who was a recognized authority. Or, as long as the orders did not affect their own lives very much, they would support the orders through simple inaction. If you made changes gradual, and made them seem reasonable, no one really cared about them.
And the changes mounted, imperceptibly, until one day people who had been "good neighbors" — which basically meant they had not disturbed each other and had no serious quarrels with each other — were now deadly enemies. And it all seemed perfectly reasonable by then.”
Source: The Robin & The Kestrel
“Ordinary People, like I used to be, they believe they're the masters of their fate. What a joke. Their very existence is by the grace of people like us.”
Source: X-Treme X-Men Omnibus, Vol. 1
“Ordinary people like you and me can achieve very little on their own. We need to build support. Even if you are a thought leader and have some good ideas on how to make the world better, and even if you write five or ten books - that won't have much effect unless you have people who are willing to support your ideas.”
“Ordinary people like you and me have the chance to make a tremendous difference for mothers and their children worldwide”
“Ordinary people love entertainment. Extraordinary people adore education.”
“Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.”
Source: 101 Facts of life
“Ordinary people need to lead and not sit there and think that governments are going to spoon-feed them and look after them and look after the country, because they won't.”
“Ordinary people pursue money, simple people pursue power, average people pursue fame, but extraordinary people pursue ideas.”
“Ordinary people regard a man of a certain force and flexibility of character as they do a lion; they look at him with a sort of wonder, perhaps they admire him; but they will on no account house with him.”
“Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.”
“Ordinary people seem to not like me. They tend to think that I’m a little weird.”
“Ordinary people send their children to school to get smart, but what modern schooling teaches is dumbness.”
Source: The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling
“Ordinary people, she said, can see only a little bit. They can't change much or go any higher than they are, but you're a genius. You'll keep going up and up, and see more and more. And each step will reveal worlds you never even knew existed.”
“Ordinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune - really anything, everything - to their advantage.”
Source: The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph