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The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental. -- Mason Cooley
Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere. -- A. E. Waite
Now most people do not want an ordinary life in which they do a job well, earn the respect of their collaborators and competitors, bring up a family and have friends. That's not enough any more, and I think that is absolutely tragic - and I'm not exaggerating - that people feel like a decent, ordinary, fun life is no longer enough. -- John Cleese
Ordinary life does not interest me. -- Anais Nin
Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff. -- Harvey Pekar
Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one. -- Tony Robbins
Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life. -- Brian Andreas
I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives. -- Tracy Chapman
The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life. -- Robert Penn Warren
An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain. -- Susan Orlean
Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. -- Anais Nin
It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away -- Anne Tyler
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. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Life and business is like the changing seasons. You cannot change the seasons, but you can change yourself. Therein lies the opportunity to live an extraordinary life, the opportunity to change yourself. -- Jim Rohn
One of the difficulties about interviewing people in Rwanda is that the country is trying to get on with ordinary life and some people just don't want to get involved in this. -- Tony Greig
When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: Ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very process of life begins to nourish your soul. -- Harold S. Kushner
I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I would miss. -- Ransom Riggs
In strongly opposing the world of play to that of reality, and in stressing that play is essentially a side activity, the interference is drawn that any contamination by ordinary life runs the risk of corrupting and destroying its very nature. -- Roger Caillois
The most efficient action, the most significant testimony to nonviolence, is living a life in which there is no violence-showing that such a life is possible, and even not more difficult than a life of gain, nor more unpleasant than a life of pleasure, nor less natural than an 'ordinary' life. -- Lanza del Vasto
There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life. -- Karen Thompson Walker
Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life. -- Gary Oldman
I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life. -- Sidney Poitier
It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away. -- Anne Tyler
In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life. -- Sigmar Gabriel
I love hearing other people's stories, and I freely admit I'm scavenging for material through their conversations, but really, at the same time, I'm living an ordinary life. -- Liane Moriarty
I went to boarding school, and then I went to Oxford, and I know how easy it is for certain groups of people to become wholly insulated from ordinary life. -- Mark Haddon
I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life. -- Jane Pauley
If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life. -- Eugene H. Peterson
I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older. -- Ian Anderson
By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life. -- Margaret Mahy
I went camping in the Maasai Mara and we moved site every night. I had no idea how spectacular it would be, how removed from ordinary life, or how many animals we would see. -- Georgina Chapman
I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school. -- Kate Winslet
Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience. -- Roland Allen
Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade. -- Joyce Meyer
Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another, and bump up against one another, in the course of ordinary life. -- Michael Sandel
An ordinary life used to look something like this: born into a growing family, you help rear your siblings, have the first of your own half-dozen or even dozen children soon after you're grown, and die before your youngest has left home. -- Jill Lepore
I live a very ordinary life. The rare awards ceremonies I go to are quite fun, because I can enjoy the irony of one minute walking to the tube, and the next being driven along the same stretch of road in a limo. -- Jonathan Pryce
Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labor's monuments and statues are when a young person can find a job, when a person with disability can get access to the ordinary life that others take for granted. -- Bill Shorten
Glamour is a beautiful illusion - the word 'glamour' originally meant a literal magic spell - that promises to transcend ordinary life and make the ideal real. It depends on a special combination of mystery and grace. Too much information breaks the spell. -- Virginia Postrel
There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends. -- Boris Yeltsin
Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one. -- Hermann Ebbinghaus
There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and 'live' with the characters. -- Margaret Mahy
I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely lose yourself. The bits of your personality that you keep under wraps in ordinary life, you can let them run free. -- Florence Welch
Live a life less ordinary. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
Be content with an ordinary life. -- Laozi
Believing people can soar beyond ordinary life. -- Frank Fools Crow
Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant. -- Joan Didion
I hate being called spoilt. My life is ordinary. -- Peaches Geldof
The most ordinary words have amazing life in them. -- Robert P. T. Coffin
There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92) -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
I want a simple, ordinary life . . . like humans enjoy. -- Deborah Harkness
There is no such thing as an ordinary life. -- Mark Twain
Myths are experienced in ordinary life, as everyday epiphanies. -- Phil Cousineau
In the ordinary business of life punctuality is . . . necessary. -- Bertrand Russell
Ordinary life is fascinating when viewed with extraordinary perspective. -- Angela Howell
Don't settle for ordinary. Dare to live a magical life. -- Debasish Mridha
Youth demands more than ordinary life. Age clings to it. -- Mason Cooley
Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason. -- Graham Greene
In our prayer and meditation we hope for fulfilling ordinary life. -- Thomas Moore
Spirituality doesnâ??t exist on another level different from ordinary life. -- Chogyam Trungpa
To live an extraordinary life, you must resist an ordinary approach. -- Frank McKinney
I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person. -- Buzz Aldrin
Refuse to be an extraordinary person trapped in an ordinary life. -- Zero Dean
Often in life those seemingly ordinary moments hold the most extraordinary meaning. -- Ken Poirot
You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life. -- Dave Winfield
Art is thus materialized dream, separated from the ordinary consciousness of waking life -- Pavel Florensky
Even the most ordinary life is a mystery if you look close enough. -- Ingrid Bengis
I'm a quiet person, and I live a quiet, pleasant, ordinary, simple life. -- Mary McGarry Morris
Life has a funny way of becoming ordinary as soon as it can. -- Colm Toibin
SEEK AND YOU WILL FIND. DON'T BE WILLING TO ACCEPT AN ORDINARY LIFE. -- Salle Merrill Redfield
Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life. -- Paul Tournier
There is nothing ordinary in life because life itself is mystical, magical, and extraordinary. -- Debasish Mridha
Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible. -- Leo Tolstoy
The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness. -- Ruth Reichl
No day is an ordinary day; all days are extraordinary, because life itself is extraordinary! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Perhaps we could enjoy ordinary, everyday life more if we learned to celebrate the ordinary. -- Joyce Meyer
For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life. -- Ian Bogost
When life was taking its ordinary course, it was hard to remember what really mattered. -- Gretchen Rubin
A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough. -- Alain de Botton
Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life. -- Alfred Marshall
For a man who is in love with the existence, nothing is ordinary in life! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The main goal in my life is to make extraordinary things out of the ordinary. -- Vittorio Grigolo
They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things-if love can ever be called that. -- Leigh Bardugo
I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life. -- Colum McCann
The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations. -- Brian Pinkerton
I'm not that old, and I haven't lived a life so far from the ordinary, really. -- Mariel Hemingway
In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life. -- Plato
Some songs are never just ordinary songs, they become the memories you collect in your life. -- Seekerohan
Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life. -- Martha Reeves
My life may seem glamorous from the outside but off screen it's as ordinary as anyone else's. -- Shah Rukh Khan
Any given moment - no matter how casual, how ordinary - is poised, full of gaping life. -- Anne Michaels
If I want to experience the life of an ordinary person, I cannot do it in Asia. -- Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
All the bravery that lines our lives, in the ordinary moments adds up to an extraordinary, successful life. -- Andrea T. Goeglein
I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. -- Ransom Riggs
I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life. -- Eric Rohmer
A man will blithely do in politics what he would kick a man downstairs for in ordinary life. -- Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
Life is too short, the world is too big and God's love is too great to live ordinary. -- Christine Caine
It's easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for 'A Life Less Ordinary'. -- Danny Boyle
Either we learn to find the Lord in the ordinary everyday life or else we shall never find him -- Josemaria Escriva
In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things. -- Jim Valvano
Its easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for A Life Less Ordinary. -- Danny Boyle
I'm satisfied to have an ordinary success and an ordinary life and an ordinary income. Later, I don't know. -- Jean-Luc Godard
But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable. -- Walker Percy
What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life? -- Jules Verne
Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves. -- Matthew Arnold
The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult. -- Salman Rushdie
'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult. -- Salman Rushdie
When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life. -- Ramana Maharshi
The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things. -- Veronique Vienne
The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience. -- Peter Ackroyd
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value. -- Desmond Tutu
What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different. -- Virginia C. Andrews
If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise. -- Theresa May
Any deviation from the ordinary course of life in this quiet town was enough to stop all progress in it. -- Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things. -- Khaled Hosseini
Life itself is but the expression of a sum of phenomena, each of which follows the ordinary physical and chemical laws. -- Rudolf Virchow
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When I look back on my ordinary, ordinary life, I see so much magic, though I missed it at the time. -- Jamie Cullum

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