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“The opportunity for greater courage comes in the most ordinary of moments.”

Moments Opportunity Greater Ordinary Courageous

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“What the ordinary person means by a 'miracle' is some gross distortion or suspension of the laws of nature... but life itself strikes him as commonplace, when in truth a blade of grass or a neuron in the brain is a greater miracle.”

Mean Persons Law Brain Greater Ordinary Miracle Strikes Grass Gross Blades Laws Of Nature Commonplace Distortion Neurons Suspension Blades Of Grass Ordinary Person

Book:Best of Sydney J. Harris

Source: Best of Sydney J. Harris

“I myself incline to drift, to accept a lesser situation rather than strive for a greater, and yet, I know that character in life and art is only made by an effort that is quite beyond one's ordinary everyday acceptance of things as they are.”

Knows Art Made Character Effort Situation Accepting Greater Acceptance Ordinary Art Is Strive Everyday Incline

Author:Lawren Harris

“The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from every-day life. Relatively few are free enough from the spell of the daily routine to respond to rappings from outside, and tales of ordinary feelings and events, or of common sentimental distortions of such feelings and events, will always take first place in the taste of the majority; rightly, perhaps, since of course these ordinary matters make up the greater part of human experience.”

Source: H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)

“The unconscious in us warns us that in art we have to followoneparticular path. And if wefollow it, it isnotthe sign of anunconscious act.On the contrary, it showsthat there is in our ordinary consciousness a greater awareness of our unconsciousness.”

Ifs Art Consciousness Path Greater Awareness Ordinary Contrary Unconscious Unconsciousness

Author:Piet Mondrian

“An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually finds his weak spot, and he goes cranked, or goes under.”

Men Artist Strong Force Stuff Greater Ordinary Weak Driving Spots Ordinary Man Driving Force Weak Spots

Book:The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“It is reported of that prodigy of parts, Monsieur Pascal, that till the decay of his health had impaired his memory, he forgot nothing of what he had done, read, or thought, in any part of his rational age. This is a privilege so little known to most men, that it seems almost incredible to those who, after the ordinary way, measure all others by themselves; but yet, when considered, may help us to enlarge our thoughts towards greater perfections of it, in superior ranks of spirits.”

Source: The Philosophical Works of John Locke

“When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.”

Happens Greater Ordinary Trade Errors Profit Trading Dealer

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness. This is most visible in extraordinary lives, in saints and martyrs. But it is no less true for ordinary people like us.”

People Joy Turns Greater Ordinary Extraordinary Saint Visible Devoted Ordinary People Martyr Ordinary Life True Joy Personal Happiness Extraordinary Life

Book:The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People

Source: The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People

“This is the thing I've noticed is that the greater the distance between you and any ordinary task is the measurement of how much rockstar potential you have.”

Greater Ordinary Tasks Distance Measurement Rockstars

Author:Emily Haines

“The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.”

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Book:Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works

Source: Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works

“For me, Savannah's resistance to change was its saving grace. The city looked inward, sealed off from the noises and distractions of the world at large. It grew inward, too, and in such a way that its people flourished like hothouse plants tended by an indulgent gardener. The ordinary became extraordinary. Eccentrics thrived. Every nuance and quirk of personality achieved greater brilliance in that lush enclosure than would have been possible anywhere else in the world.”

Source: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

“The cause of rain is now, I consider, no longer an object of doubt. If two masses of air of unequal temperatures, by the ordinary currents of the winds, are intermixed, when saturated with vapour, a precipitation ensues. If the masses are under saturation, then less precipitation takes place, or none at all, according to the degree. Also, the warmer the air, the greater is the quantity of vapour precipitated in like circumstances. ... Hence the reason why rains are heavier in summer than in winter, and in warm countries than in cold.”

“If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear. People who can open to the web of life that called us into being”

People Ifs World Love Humans Life Is Effort Greater Ordinary True Love Climate Change Convinced This Life Ordinary People Healed Web Of Life

Author:Joanna Macy

“To some extent, this urge to break out of the ordinary is present in every generation. Part of being young is desiring something beyond everyday life and a secure job, a yearning for something really truly greater. Is this simply an empty dream that fades away as we become older? No! Men and women were created for something great, for infinity. Nothing else will ever be enough.”

“I acknowledge, in the ordinary course of government, that the exposition of the laws and Constitution devolves upon the judicial. But I beg to know upon what principle it can be contended that any one department draws from the Constitution greater powers than another in marking out the limits of the powers of the several departments.”

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Book:Selected Writings of James Madison

Source: Selected Writings of James Madison