“Medical thinking usually sees stress as highly disturbing but isolated events such as, for example, sudden unemployment, a marriage breakup, or the death of a loved one. These major events are potent sources of stress for many, but there are chronic daily stresses in people's lives that are more insidious and more harmful in their long-term biological consequences. Internally generated stresses take their toll without in any way seeming out of the ordinary.” PeopleThinkingWayLongPainTermEventsExampleSourceMajorsOrdinaryConsequenceStressMedicalTherapyLong TermBreakupInjuryLoved OnesIsolatedDeath Of A Loved OneUnemploymentDisturbingSeemingTollsInsidious Author:Gabor Mate
“The firefly is an unassuming insect in the daytime. If you didn't know what it was, you'd think it was nothing special. But at night, the firefly glows with its own light source. The darkness brings out its most beautiful gift. That's an extraordinary talent for an ordinary-looking creature, isn't it?” IfsThinkingKnowsLightBeautifulNightDarknessSpecialTalentSourceCreaturesOrdinaryExtraordinaryInsectsDaytimeFireflyUnassuming Book:Rainshadow Road Source: Rainshadow Road
“It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of administrative convenience, or practical expediency, and not in rules of logic.” MindJusticeSourceOrdinaryEvidenceLogicPracticalsConsiderationConvenienceFramedAdministrativeExpediency Book:Law is Justice: Notable Opinions of Mr. Justice Cardozo Source: Law is Justice: Notable Opinions of Mr. Justice Cardozo
“There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the latter, the studio is the world... For them, the ordinary doesn't exist: every thing in life is a source of nourishment.” WorldKindTwoLife IsSourcePhotographyOrdinaryPhotographerStudiosFormerLatterThings In LifeNourishment Author:Ernst Haas
“As we are brought into God's extraordinary kingdom through ordinary means, we are remade, no longer fashioned as competitors for commodities in a world of scarce resources, but as co-sharers with Christ in the circulation of gifts that flows outward from its source without running out.” WorldMeanRunningChristSourceOrdinaryResourcesFlowExtraordinaryKingdomsCommodityCompetitorsScarceCirculationScarce Resources Author:Michael Horton
“My work involves the physical manifestation of emotional reality. Thus, the invisible becomes visible; the normal, abnormal; and the familiar, unfamiliar. Ordinary life is an endless source of fascination to me in its ritualistic objects and behavior.” RealityLife IsObjectsEmotionalSourceBehaviorNormalOrdinaryEndlessInvisibleFamiliarManifestationVisibleFascinationUnfamiliarAbnormalOrdinary Life Author:Sandy Skoglund