Quotes about Ordinary Life

The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Ordinary life does not interest me. Votes: 2

Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff. Votes: 2

Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one. Votes: 2

Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life. Votes: 2

I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives. Votes: 2

The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life. Votes: 2

An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain. Votes: 2

Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. Votes: 2

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 Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life. Votes: 1

Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life. Votes: 1

I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Live a life less ordinary. Votes: 0

Be content with an ordinary life. Votes: 0

Believing people can soar beyond ordinary life. Votes: 0

Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant. Votes: 0

I hate being called spoilt. My life is ordinary. Votes: 0

The most ordinary words have amazing life in them. Votes: 0

There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92) Votes: 0

I want a simple, ordinary life . . . like humans enjoy. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as an ordinary life. Votes: 0

Myths are experienced in ordinary life, as everyday epiphanies. Votes: 0

In the ordinary business of life punctuality is . . . necessary. Votes: 0

Ordinary life is fascinating when viewed with extraordinary perspective. Votes: 0

Don't settle for ordinary. Dare to live a magical life. Votes: 0

Youth demands more than ordinary life. Age clings to it. Votes: 0

Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason. Votes: 0

In our prayer and meditation we hope for fulfilling ordinary life. Votes: 0

Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life. Votes: 0

To live an extraordinary life, you must resist an ordinary approach. Votes: 0

I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person. Votes: 0

Refuse to be an extraordinary person trapped in an ordinary life. Votes: 0

Often in life those seemingly ordinary moments hold the most extraordinary meaning. Votes: 0

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life. Votes: 0

Art is thus materialized dream, separated from the ordinary consciousness of waking life Votes: 0

Even the most ordinary life is a mystery if you look close enough. Votes: 0

I'm a quiet person, and I live a quiet, pleasant, ordinary, simple life. Votes: 0

Life has a funny way of becoming ordinary as soon as it can. Votes: 0

SEEK AND YOU WILL FIND. DON'T BE WILLING TO ACCEPT AN ORDINARY LIFE. Votes: 0

Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life. Votes: 0

There is nothing ordinary in life because life itself is mystical, magical, and extraordinary. Votes: 0

Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible. Votes: 0

The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness. Votes: 0

No day is an ordinary day; all days are extraordinary, because life itself is extraordinary! Votes: 0

Perhaps we could enjoy ordinary, everyday life more if we learned to celebrate the ordinary. Votes: 0

For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life. Votes: 0

When life was taking its ordinary course, it was hard to remember what really mattered. Votes: 0

A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough. Votes: 0

Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life. Votes: 0

For a man who is in love with the existence, nothing is ordinary in life! Votes: 0

The main goal in my life is to make extraordinary things out of the ordinary. Votes: 0

They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things-if love can ever be called that. Votes: 0

I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life. Votes: 0

The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations. Votes: 0

I'm not that old, and I haven't lived a life so far from the ordinary, really. Votes: 0

In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life. Votes: 0

Some songs are never just ordinary songs, they become the memories you collect in your life. Votes: 0

Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want. Votes: 0

I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life. Votes: 0

My life may seem glamorous from the outside but off screen it's as ordinary as anyone else's. Votes: 0

Any given moment - no matter how casual, how ordinary - is poised, full of gaping life. Votes: 0

If I want to experience the life of an ordinary person, I cannot do it in Asia. Votes: 0

The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving. Votes: 0

All the bravery that lines our lives, in the ordinary moments adds up to an extraordinary, successful life. Votes: 0

I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. Votes: 0

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life. Votes: 0

A man will blithely do in politics what he would kick a man downstairs for in ordinary life. Votes: 0

Life is too short, the world is too big and God's love is too great to live ordinary. Votes: 0

It's easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for 'A Life Less Ordinary'. Votes: 0

Either we learn to find the Lord in the ordinary everyday life or else we shall never find him Votes: 0

In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things. Votes: 0

Its easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for A Life Less Ordinary. Votes: 0

I'm satisfied to have an ordinary success and an ordinary life and an ordinary income. Later, I don't know. Votes: 0

But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable. Votes: 0

What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life? Votes: 0

Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves. Votes: 0

The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult. Votes: 0

'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult. Votes: 0

When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life. Votes: 0

The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things. Votes: 0

The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience. Votes: 0

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value. Votes: 0

What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different. Votes: 0

If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise. Votes: 0

Any deviation from the ordinary course of life in this quiet town was enough to stop all progress in it. Votes: 0

I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things. Votes: 0

Life itself is but the expression of a sum of phenomena, each of which follows the ordinary physical and chemical laws. Votes: 0

If I dismiss the ordinary—waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen—I may just miss my life. Votes: 0

When I look back on my ordinary, ordinary life, I see so much magic, though I missed it at the time. Votes: 0

I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there. Votes: 0

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot. Votes: 0

The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love. Votes: 0

I think it's time we had a president who carried the same life experiences into the White House as most ordinary Americans. Votes: 0

Sun lighting a child's hair. A friend's embrace. Slow dancing in a safe and quiet place. The pleasures of an ordinary life. Votes: 0

If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things. Votes: 0

She is not an ordinary girl. She is my fairy who will change my life and make it beautiful with her smiles. Votes: 0

It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God. Votes: 0

The Bible is no ordinary book. The words are like medicine to your soul, and it has the power to change your life! Votes: 0

You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It's made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary. Votes: 0

I don't know how easy that would be but I'd try just to lead an ordinary life again. Stay out of the papers. Votes: 0

Prayer turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God. Votes: 0

I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh. Votes: 0

We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and religion. Votes: 0

The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort. Votes: 0

I like to live life in an understated way because that's who I am - an ordinary guy who has experienced an extraordinary journey. Votes: 0

For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce. ... how to set yourself spinning? Votes: 0

The shock, the power of an ordinary life. It is a thing you could not invent with banks of computers in a dust-free room. Votes: 0

When we find the crossing point between our attitude and what happens in our life, then we change ordinary life into a miraculous adventure." Votes: 0

I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valueless. Votes: 0

Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not for me. Votes: 0

In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing. Votes: 0

Personally, love is very important for me. There are lots of ordinary things in life, so love should be extraordinary. I hope I achieve that. Votes: 0

All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both. Votes: 0

In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term. Votes: 0

Nor was I the only one struggling.To live an ordinary life, like any ordinary person, must have been the vain dream of countless others. Votes: 0

You come across quite ordinary, nondescript people in daily life, and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage, too. Votes: 0

Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life. Votes: 0

Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance. Votes: 0

I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much richer and more meaningful. Votes: 0

Marriage is primarily an economic arrangement, an insurance pact. It differs from the ordinary life insurance agreement only in that it is more binding, more exacting. Votes: 0

I think what I tend to do is look at all the very ordinary things that are around the house and imagine bringing them to life. Votes: 0

Heroics is often about putting our life on the line. Ordinary courage is about putting our vulnerability on the line. In today's world, that's pretty extraordinary. Votes: 0

I'm not really managing the work-life balance, I'm just accepting that the work increases and the ordinary life has to decrease when you're the prime minister. Votes: 0

But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary. Votes: 0

Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls. Votes: 0

The good life (for your kids) is where you make the ordinary extraordinary, where you make the natural miraculous. It's where you make the everyday unique. Votes: 0

Many parts of my life are perfectly ordinary, if that's what you mean. One could even call it boring, but that's what I like about it. Votes: 0

The British hamburger thus symbolised, with savage neatness, the country's failure to provide its ordinary people with food which did anything more for them than sustain life. Votes: 0

Improv Everywhere tramples the lines drawn between spectacle and spectator, theatre and real life, public and private, performance and protest, and reclaims the streets for ordinary people. Votes: 0

I am gagged and imprisoned. I can't even speak. I want to kick a football in a park with my son. Ordinary, banal life: my impossible dream. Votes: 0

...just being ordinary in and of itself is and expression of divinity; the truth of one's real self can be discovered through the pathway of everyday life. Votes: 0

In general, when you travel, you get into a different reality and are able to more accurately reflect on your ordinary life. Hiking does that for me. Votes: 0

You can't make a good show based on pure verisimilitude, pure anti-drama. But you have to acknowledge a lot of ordinary life. Most TV doesn't do that. Votes: 0

I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary life time. Votes: 0

He that in the ordinary affairs of life would admit of nothing but direct plain demonstration would be sure of nothing in this world but of perishing quickly. Votes: 0

It became inevitable that television would address life's mundane problems because television itself is so mundane, part of the ordinary flow of time the way those problems are. Votes: 0

I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not. Votes: 0

We're all ordinary in a way. We can all be hurt. We can all be unbalanced. We all have feelings. Life can treat us harshly, even shockingly sometimes. Votes: 0

Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey. Votes: 0

The night was ordinary. It usually is, I think, when your life changes. Most people aren't doing anything special when the carefully placed pieces of their life break apart. Votes: 0

Everything has the potential to be extraordinary, whether an old photograph, a book or a life. If you find it ordinary, you simply need to take a closer look. Votes: 0

I'll stick to finding the funny in the ordinary because my life is pretty ordinary and so are the lives of my friends - and my friends are hilarious. Votes: 0

In this life, your so-called ordinary life, you must be rooted; and in your inner space, in the spiritual life, you must be weightless and flying and flowing, floating. Votes: 0

When we trust our creativity we encounter a supreme kind of enjoyment - an amazement at the natural unfolding of life beyond our ordinary way of looking at things. Votes: 0

A lawsuit is to ordinary life what war is to peacetime. In a lawsuit, everybody on the other side is bad. A trial transcript is a discourse in malevolence. Votes: 0

A good life happens when you stop and are grateful for the ordinary moments that so many of us just steamroll over to try to find those extraordinary moments. Votes: 0

A good life happens when you stop and are grateful for the ordinary moments that so many of us just steamroll over to try to find those extraordinary moments. Votes: 0

Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value. Votes: 0

Zen is a totally different kind of religion. It brings humanness to religion. It is not bothered about anything superhuman; its whole concern is how to make ordinary life a blessing. Votes: 0

People don't want to see the guy next door on the stage, they want to see a being from another planet. You want to see somebody you'd never meet in ordinary life. Votes: 0

When I was very young, I thought the theatre was a place where higher beings went about their celestial business, as if they knew nothing of ordinary life and its political mysteries. Votes: 0

In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with heaven is that intentions are valid currency. Votes: 0

Art and music shine a light of meaning on ordinary life, and through them we are able to confront the things that trouble us and to find consolation and peace in their presence. Votes: 0

The more committees you belong to, the less of ordinary life you will understand. When your daily round becomes nothing more than a daily round of committees you might as well be dead. Votes: 0

When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten. Votes: 0

Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are. Votes: 0

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up Votes: 0

The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-in-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life. Votes: 0