“Is it normal to wake up in the morning in a sweat because you can't wait to beat another human's guts out?” HumansSportsWaitingMorningNormalBeatsWake UpGutsSweat Author:Joe Kapp
“Normal adult shopping is something I will never actually do, because it's no more possible for me to go shopping like normal adults do than it is for a man with no legs to wake up one day and walk. I can't miss shopping like you'd miss things you once had. I miss it in a different way. I miss it like you would miss a train.” MenWayI CanDifferentWalksMissingLike YouOne DayNormalAdultsWake UpTrainLegsDifferent WaysShopping Author:John Darnielle
“I prize being just a normal dude that wakes up, goes to work, comes home to his wife - like, quite boring.” HomeWifeNormalWake UpBoringPrizeComing Home Author:Teddy Sears
“I get to focus on something I love to do 24-hours a day rather than trying to squeeze it in between midterms, or even during my normal workday. When I was at Google it was like you wake up at 7 and then you get home by 7 and you start your second job of music. So now I get to focus all my efforts on music, travel and play shows and do all of this stuff. That's the difference - That's all my life is, all day.” TryingPlayShowsHomeJobsLife IsStuffHoursDifferencesEffortFocusLike YouNormalWake UpGoogleMidterms Author:Hoodie Allen
“There's a million more pros than cons, for sure. Obviously, the privacy thing is a little different. It's not normal to wake up and have 12 paparazzi cars waiting outside to follow you to Starbucks in the morning. But, there's a lot more pros, and I'm willing to put up with those cons, for sure.” LittlesDifferentWaitingMorningMillionsCarWillingNormalWake UpPrivacyPaparazziStarbucks Author:Taylor Lautner
“I don't feel like my life is that of a superstar! Every day I wake up, I take the train, I go to my ballet class. My everyday life is pretty normal.” FeelsLife IsClassNormalWake UpTrainEverydayBalletEveryday LifeSuperstarBallet Class Author:Misty Copeland
“Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.” DifferentFormLyingConsciousnessSpecialTypeNormalConsciousWake UpScreensRationalWaking Book:Writings, 1902-1910 Source: Writings, 1902-1910
“Mindfulness is the key to everything, and this is especially true when one approaches the cultural portal known as "middle age." This is when people mindlessly believe that it's normal to get diseases and start to fall apart. But the truth is that midlife is the time when people need to wake up and be far more mindful about their everyday habits and thinking patterns.” PeopleThinkingNeedsBelieveAgeFallKnownMiddleKeysHabitTruth IsDiseaseNormalApproachMindfulnessWake UpEverydayPatternsFalling ApartMiddle AgesPortalMidlife Author:Christiane Northrup
“The beatings, the beatings were so normal to me. The abuse was just routine. I didn't wake up the next day and say, 'Dre, why did you hit me?' We never talked about it the next day. Never.” NextNormalAbuseWake UpRoutineNext Day Author:Michel'le
“Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program for total negativity will build into your system, making life feel more and more unbearale. But you won't even notice it coming on, thinking that it is somehow normal, something about getter older, about turning eight or about turning twelve or turning fifteeen, and then one day you realize that your entire life is just awful, not worth living, a horror and a black blot on the white terrain of human existence. One morning you wake up afraid you are going to live.” ThinkingFeelsYearsMindHumansHeartLife IsBlackRealizingWhiteExistenceMorningHorrorOne DayNormalComputerProgramWake UpEightAwfulDataTwelveNegativityHeart And MindWorth LivingHuman ExistenceTerrainProzac Nation Author:Elizabeth Wurtzel
“I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don't want to die. I want to eat like a normal person eats, but I need to see my bones or I will hate myself even more and I might cut my heart out or take every pill that was ever made.” WantNeedsHeartPersonsMadeMightHateDiesSleepCuttingMy HeartNormalWake UpBonesPillsGoing To SleepWanting To DieHate Myself Book:Wintergirls Source: Wintergirls