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“I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help you die to the mundane and to the ordinary so that the extraordinary explodes in your life. .”

Littles Helping Dies Ordinary Extraordinary Love Life Poetic Mundane Seducing

Author:Rajneesh

“I am only about half alive - a large part of my strength is consumed in sitting up or walking. My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored & listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me. However - so many things do interest me, & interest me intensely, in science, history, philosophy, & literature; that I have never actually desired to die, or entertained any suicidal designs, as might be expected of one with so little kinship to the ordinary features of life.”

“Let's make it clear for the dimmest bulbs among you: the kids at Columbine High didn't die from too many guns, they died from too few. I'm not suggesting that the teachers should have carried guns not as franchised agents of the state. They should have carried guns as ordinary individuals, exercising a sacred right, and in performance of a solemn duty to protect the young lives that were placed very foolishly, as it turned out in their hands.”

Should States Hands Kids Young Dies Individual Clear Teacher Duty Exercise Protect Ordinary Gun Should Have Performances Died Sacred Agents Solemn Suggesting Bulbs Columbine Young Life

Author:L. Neil Smith

“Maeterlinck says that compared with ordinary truths mystic truths have strange privileges - they can neither age nor die. Beauty is eternal and ugliness, thank God, is ephemeral. Can there be any question as to which should attract the poet?”

Should Age Dies Strange Poet Eternal Ordinary Privilege Thank God Ugliness Mystic Ephemeral

Author:Florence Earle Coates

“I have a son, who is a... not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of himself. And the great fear of then, of all parents is, when the parents die, who takes care of your child? And the answer is: they become homeless.”

Children Care Form Dies Parent Answers Son Ordinary Our Children Take Care Your Children Homeless Schizophrenia

Author:James D. Watson

“Christians must return to the great story that has its fulfillment in life after death, so we may live and die well in the light of our extraordinary hope that enables us to embrace the ordinary lives God gives us here and now.”

Giving Wells May Stories Light Christian Dies Return Ordinary Embrace Extraordinary Fulfillment Here And Now After Death Ordinary Life Life After Death Fulfillment In Life

Author:Michael Horton

“Four experts had an appointment with an ordinary man. They needed him to ratify their findings, or anything they achieved would be meaningless. As they drove to meet him, they knocked down a man on the road. He was dying. If they tried to save him, they might miss their appointment. They decided that their appointment, which concerned all of us, was more important than the life of one man. They drove on to keep their appointment. They did not know that the man they were to meet was the man they had left to die.”

Ifs Knows Men Important Might Would Be Dies Left Four Dying Missing He Man Needed Findings Ordinary Concerned Decided Experts One Man Meaningless Appointments Ordinary Man Knocked Down

Author:William McIlvanney

“You know that for sure because Godzilla was killed by an ordinary missile. He spends most of that film dodging them but then the Army finally gets a bead on him and they shoot a missile at him and he blows up and dies, and that's not what Godzilla is. Godzilla is supposed to be a thing that you can't possibly kill, no matter how hard you try.”

Knows Trying Matter Hard Film Dies Ordinary Army Blow Supposed To Be Missiles Beads Godzilla

Author:Brad Warner

“I was born an ordinary actor. I will die an ordinary actor. But I've persisted.”

Dies Actors Born Ordinary

Author:Constantin Stanislavski

“A dream does not die on its own. A dream is vanquished by the choices ordinary people make about real things in their own lives.”

People Doe Real Dream Dies Choices Ordinary Ordinary People Real Things

Author:Jonathan Kozol

“The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances.”

Humans Ideas Enough Christian Desire Dies Asks Circumstances Ordinary Ideology Vulnerable

Author:Kathleen Norris

“Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual. That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind, and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”

“The point is always reached after which the gods no longer share their lives with mortal men and women, they die or wither away or retire... Now that they've gone, the high drama's over. What remains is ordinary human life.”

Men Humans Dies Gone Share Drama Ordinary Men And Women Remains Mortals Human Life Retiring

Author:Salman Rushdie

“You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose.”

Thinking Said Two Important Sometimes Together Beautiful Dies Three Courses Behinds Like You Ordinary Empty Rose Glasses Screens Butterfly Caterpillars You Re Beautiful Passerby

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“No thanks," said Digory, "I don't know that I care much about living on and on after everyone I know is dead. I'd rather live an ordinary time and die and go to Heaven.”

Knows Said Care Dies Heaven Ordinary Thanks I Care Living On

Book:The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen

Source: The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen

“I think Kwan intended to show me the world is not a place but the vastness of the sou. And the soul is nothing more than love, limitless, endless, all that moves us toward knowing what is true....If people we love die, then they are lost only to our ordinary senses. If we remember, we can find them anytime with our hundred secret senses.”

People Ifs Thinking World Soul Shows Remember Moving Dies Lost Secret Knowing Ordinary Hundred Senses Endless Show Me Limitless Vastness

Author:Amy Tan

“You are beautiful, but you are empty,” he went on. “One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me.”

Thinking Beautiful Dies Like You Ordinary Empty Rose You Are Beautiful Passerby

Book:The Little Prince:

Source: The Little Prince:

“The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.”

Men Feelings Dies Powerful Grief Century Fool Ordinary Noble Encounters Exile Procedures Nineteenth Century Humiliate Genuineness

Book:The Red and the Black

Source: The Red and the Black

“We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite our gifts and our unstinting efforts, our most extravagant hopes. We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep--it's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out of windows or drown themselves or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us, the vast majority, are slowly devoured by some disease or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself.”

Source: The Hours: A Novel

“Sprawled out on the front lawn Looking up at an ordinary sky It could fall on me and somehow be The day I didn't die”

Dies Fall Sky Fronts Ordinary Lawns

Author:Nick Burd

“Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself.”

“Eating, drinking, dying - three primary manifestations of the universal and impersonal life. Animals live that impersonal and universal life without knowing its nature. Ordinary people know its nature but don't live it and, if they think seriously about it, refuse to accept it. An enlightened person knows it, lives it, and accepts it completely. He eats, he drinks, and in due course he dies - but he eats with a difference, drinks with a difference, dies with a difference.”

“And they both began to laugh over nothing as children will when they are happy together. And they laughed so that in the end they were making as much noise as if they had been two ordinary healthy natural ten-year-old creatures—instead of a hard, little, unloving girl and a sickly boy who believed that he was going to die.”

Ifs Years Children Littles Two Ends Hard Together Dies Girl Natural Boys Laughing Healthy Ten Creatures Ordinary Noise Laughed Happy Together

Book:The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden

“The new idea either finds a champion or it dies. No ordinary involvement with a new idea provides the energy required to cope with the indifference and resistance that change provokes.”

Ideas Dies Energy Ordinary Resistance Indifference Champion New Ideas Provoking Involvement Power Of Ideas

Book:A passion for excellence

Source: A passion for excellence

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