“To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give... You will find that people forget the failures of others very quickly.... My last piece of advice is not to let anyone see your mortification, but whatever you fancy people are saying about you to go on with your ordinary life as though nothing unpleasant had happened to you.” PeopleGivingCharacterLastsForgetPiecesHappenedAdviceFailureGoes OnBearsOrdinaryProofFancyOrdinary LifeMortification Author:W. Somerset Maugham
“One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.” PersonsTalkingJudgingGoes OnOrdinaryDeeperMotiveOrdinary Person Book:Pascal Pensées Source: Pascal Pensées
“What we grieve for is not the loss of a grand vision, but rather the loss of common things, events and gestures.... ordinariness is the most precious thing we struggle for, what the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto fought for. Not noble causes or abstract theories. But the right to go on living with a sense of purpose and a sense of self-worth--an ordinary life.” SelfPurposeCausesLossCommonGriefVisionStruggleEventsTheoryGoes OnOrdinaryJewNobleSelf WorthGrievingAbstractHolocaustGesturesGhettoSense Of SelfOrdinary LifePrecious ThingsOrdinarinessCommon ThingsNoble CausesWarsaw Author:Irena Klepfisz
“What we're doing is saying what happens with the establishment and how are we as ordinary human beings are used as pawns. What do we really know about what goes on! We think we are a democracy.... Are we? I'm not so sure.” ThinkingKnowsHumansHappensUsedHuman BeingsDemocracyGoes OnOrdinaryEstablishmentPawns Author:David Suchet
“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.” LifeMayHardWisdomWould BeTurnsChangeChangedGoes OnBirdOrdinarySightHarderEmbraceDecentChanging The WorldEggsTrue HappinessJollyBusiness ChangeLearn To FlyBird FlyingWhy ChangeHatchingChange Is Hard Book:Joyful Christian Source: Joyful Christian