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The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Jimmy Johnson
I don't really know that this story has a whole lot of things happen in it. It doesn't really. It's just a record of how things were in my life during this last winter. I guess things happened, but nothing out of the ordinary.
Markus Zusak
Logan stopped and gazed skyward as the kite began to soar above them, and when he clapped his hands at Ben's obvious joy, she was strucked by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.
Nicholas Sparks
...and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things.
Bill Bryson
Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
Oscar Wilde
Do not ask your childrento strive for extraordinary lives.Such striving may seem admirable,but it is the way of foolishness.Help them instead to find the wonderand the marvel of an ordinary life.Show them the joy of tastingtomatoes, apples and pears.Show them how to crywhen pets and people die.Show them the infinite pleasurein the touch of a hand.And make the ordinary come alive for them.The extraordinary will take care of itself.
William Martin
Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.
Sigmund Freud
Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.
G. K. Chesterton
It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.
Jodi Picoult
The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.
Jos
We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.
Raoul Vaneigem
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
Jodie Foster
Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.
William Wordsworth
We can learn to rejoice in even the smallest blessings our life holds. It is easy to miss our own good fortune; often happiness comes in ways we don't even notice. It's like a cartoon I saw of an astonished-looking man saying, 'What was that?' The caption below read, 'Bob experiences a moment of well-being.' The ordinariness of our good fortune can make it hard to catch.
Pema Chodron, The Places That Sc
Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.
R. D. Laing
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln
If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people.
Mark Twain
Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of life.
Angie Everhart
I wouldn't say I'm normal. But I'm relatively stable. When I think of normal, I think of mediocrity, and mediocrity scares the f--- out of me.
Gillian Anderson
