No fiction is good fiction unless it is true to life, and yet no life is worth relating unless it be a life out of the ordinary; and then it seems improbable like fiction.
It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the ordinary about you.
It was like magic, but so much of magic is about misdirection, whereas so much of redemption is straightforward and ordinary, piercing true and lit with surprise.
I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique.
You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.
Beyond the curve of his days he glimpsed neither superhuman happiness nor eternity--happiness was human, eternity ordinary.
Thus, what enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge.
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.
Suffering reminds us of our brokenness, our humanity. It disarms us of our self-absorption and magnifies our need for one another.
No matter how unfamiliar my world becomes, I can always find my way home when I dance.
Ordinary human laws are the means -- however imperfect -- by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.
The difference between the ordinary and extraordinary is the extra. Go the extra mile and enter your extraordinary success
The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.
Every day is filled with ordinary miracles. You don't have to look far to find them." -Liberty
Udell was an ordinary man, I thought, but a man with an extraordinary way of thinking. That was truly worth more than gold: extraordinary thinking.
I discovered that when one follows the artist's eye one sees unexpected treasures in so many seemingly ordinary scenes.
When we find the crossing point between our attitude and what happens in our life, then we change ordinary life into a miraculous adventure.
And what about tomorrow then? And all the tomorrows to come? Why can't we talk about it? Why can't we ever talk about it?
She is not an ordinary girl. She is my fairy who will change my life and make it beautiful with her smiles.
Everything was an adventure, at night, when you were where you shouldn't be, even if it was somwhere you could go perfectly well in daylight, and it was then only ordinary.
