Best ordinary & realizing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Most incredible, however, are the times we know Christ is with us in the midst of our daily, routine lives. In the middle of cleaning the house or driving somewhere in the pick-up, He stops us. . . in our tracks and makes His presence known. Often it's in the middle of the most mundane task that He lets us know He is there with us. We realize, then, that there can be no "ordinary" moments for people who live their lives with Jesus.”

“I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person.”

Persons Life Is Realizing Common Ordinary Ordinary Person

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“The moment in the account of Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis is when they realize they're naked and try and cover themselves with fig leaves. That seemed to me a perfect allegory of what happened in the 20th century with regard to literary modernism. Literary modernism grew out of a sense that, “Oh my god! I'm telling a story! Oh, that can't be the case, because I'm a clever person. I'm a literary person! What am I going to do to distinguish myself?...a lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller.”

“A criminal has a kind of freedom by definition that the ordinary citizen doesn't have. The criminal's able to realize himself in ways not available to the general population, if you want to put it that way. They're interesting and unpredictable. Characters always have to break some sort of bound or other to be interesting. It also helps if they're paradoxical.”

Ifs Way Want Kind Character Helping Able Realizing Interesting Break Citizens Ordinary Bounds Population Definitions Available Criminals Unpredictable Paradoxical Ordinary Citizens

Author:William Monahan

“The truth is that History, with its imposing capital H, is simply the amalgamation of many quotidian lives lived in very ordinary ways. History is always personal. If you read Holocaust survivor or American slavery survivor narratives, you realize all too well that these great Historical moments were personal to someone at some time.”

Ifs Way Wells Moments Realizing Truth Is Ordinary Slavery Historical Narrative Survivor Holocaust Imposing American Slavery Holocaust Survivor Amalgamation Great Historical

Author:Chris Abani

“If you encounter a human shadow burned permanently into the concrete in Hiroshima, you realize that this is the trace of a very ordinary person now elevated into the emblematic. Time, shame, complicity, or discomfort are the only things that make us pretend History is impersonal or far removed from the power and consequences of our every lived moment.”

Ifs Humans Persons Moments Realizing Ordinary Shadow Consequence Shame Encounters Concrete Burned Discomfort Hiroshima Complicity Ordinary Person

Author:Chris Abani

“I've found that South Africa has produced good leaders. These are people who realize that when there is danger, they should be in the forefront and when there is victory to be celebrated, they should be in the background, allowing their colleagues and the ordinary civilians - the man in the street - to rejoice and to celebrate that victory.”

People Men Should Found Realizing Leader Streets Danger He Man Victory Ordinary South Backgrounds Celebrate Allowing Rejoice South Africa Colleagues Civilians Good Leader

Author:Nelson Mandela

“What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.”

People Book Whole Past Literature Realizing Serious Ordinary Ordinary People

Author:Doris Lessing

“To travel a circle is to journey over the same ground time and time again. To travel a circle wisely is to journey over the same ground for the first time. In this way, the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and the circle, a path to where you wish to be. And when you notice at last that the path has circled back into itself, you realize that where you wish to be is where you have already been ... and always were.”

“Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used. no person can have the use of all this potential until he learns to know his or her own self. the trouble with many people is that they got through life thinking and writing themselves off as ordinary commonplace persons. having no proper belief in themselves they live aimless and erratic lives largely because they never realize what their lives really can be or what they can become”

People Thinking Knows Writing Persons Self Use Used Individual Belief Realizing Trouble Ordinary Commonplace Deep Within Reservoirs Erratic

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.”

Source: Letters Papers from Prison

“We say 'forest' but this word is made of the unknown, the unfamiliar, the unencompassed. The earth. Clods of dirt. Pebbles. On a clear day you rest among ordinary, everyday things that have been familiar to you since childhood, grass, bushes, a dog (or a cat), a chair, but that changes when you realize that every object is an enormous army, an inexhaustible swarm.”

Has Beens Made Earth Realizing Clear Childhood Dog Objects Ordinary Cat Army Everyday Enormous Forests Familiar Grass Chairs Dirt Unfamiliar Pebbles Swarms Everyday Things Clear Day

Book:Cosmos: A Novel

Source: Cosmos: A Novel

“Remember, he is not, like you, a pure spirit. Never having been a human (Oh that abominable advantage of the Enemy's) you don't realize how enslaved they are to the pressure of the ordinary.”

Humans Remember Spirit Realizing Enemy Like You Pure Ordinary Advantage Pressure Screwtape Letters

Book:The Screwtape Letters

Source: The Screwtape Letters

“He seemed to realize she was staring at him, because the cursing stopped. "You cut me," he said. His voice was pleasant. British. Very ordinary. He looked at his hand with critcal interest. "It might be fatal." Tessa looked at him with wide eyes. "Are you the Magister?" He tilted his hand to the side. Blood ran down it, spattering the floor. "Dear me, massive blood loss. Death could be imminent.”

Said Hands Might Eye Sides Voice Interest Realizing Loss Cutting Blood Ordinary Dear British Wide Staring Ran Pleasant Massive Cursing Tessa Gray Dear Me Wide Eyes

Author:Cassandra Clare

“The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary. Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipe. Yes, God is under the porch as well as on top of the mountain, and joy is in both the front row and the bleachers, if we are willing to be where we are.”

Source: The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)

“I don't believe in God. But sitting there, in a room full of those who feel otherwise, I realize that I do believe in people. In their strength to help each other, and to thrive in spite of the odds, I believe that the extraordinary trumps the ordinary, any day. I believe that having something to hope for -- even if it's just a better tomorrow -- is the most powerful drug on this planet.”

Source: The Storyteller

“The measure of a man comes down to moments, spread out like dots of pain on the canvas on life. Everything you were, everything you'll someday be, resides in the small, seemingly ordinary choices of everyday life.....Each decision seems as insignificant as a left turn on an unfamiliar road when you have no destination in mind. But the decisions accumulate until you realize one day that they've made you the man that you are.”

“I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.”

Art Realizing Ordinary Miracle Extraordinary Drawing I Have Learned Sheer Ordinary Things

Author:Frederick Franck

“If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.”

People Ifs Kind War Government Realizing Ordinary Army Resolve Resolution Ordinary People Win Win

Author:Scilla Elworthy

“Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.”

Men Whole Use Hate Universe Realizing Masters Solitude Ordinary Ordinary Man

Author:Laozi

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