Quotes of: Ordinary-situations Keyword

don't worry when situations get bitter. A bitter situation is a better teacher. The greatest lessons in life cannot only be found in comfort but also in the uncomfortable situations of life

Distinctive Footprints of Life: Where Are You Heading Towards?

Wise men talk about ideas, intellectuals about facts, and the ordinary man talks about what he eats.

Mongolian

People do not have the power to change situations, situations have the power to change people though.

Ram Mohan

I take complete and sole responsibility for my present situation.

Brad Delp

Commitment doesn't have conditions. A compassionate samurai follows through whether it feels good or not; average people do what they feel like doing.

The Compassionate Samurai: Being Extraordinary in an Ordinary World

As long as you allow your past to haunt you, you'll never be free to pursue your future. You won't even be able to focus on your present.

The Compassionate Samurai: Being Extraordinary in an Ordinary World

But he did not believe ordinary citizens created art. True art was anomalous; it was a rare mutation. It didn't happen simply because one willed it so. He thought it an utter and exasperating waste of an ordinary man's time.

Euphoria

The genome is as complicated and indeterminate as ordinary life, because it is ordinary life. This should come as a relief. Simple determinism, whether of the genetics or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free...

Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

God is constantly on the move. I cannot stay where I am and follow God at the same time; responding requires movement.

Hungry for God: Hearing God's Voice in the Ordinary and the Everyday

While most activists could use a good dose of gentleness, I think most believers could use a good dose of holy anger.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Few people are interested in a religion that has nothing to say to the world and offers them only life after death, when what people are really wondering is whether there is life before death.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

When we begin enacting the new world, the nations will follow. Nations will not lead us to peace; it is people who will lead the nation to peace as they begin to humanize the nations.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

The lives of the thirty thousand children who die of starvation each day is like 6 september 11ths every single day, a silent tsunami that happens every week.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

No one knows what path you should follow except yourself. You are your own wise teacher. You are your own Guru.

A narrow escape from an ordinary life: A true story

It always bothers me when I hear Rwanda's genocide described as a product of "ancient tribal hatreds." I think this is an easy way for Westerners to dismiss the whole thing as a regrettable but pointless bloodbath that happens to primitive brown peop...

An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography

if people do not have responsibility, do not expect them to behave responsibly.

The Leaderless Revolution: How Ordinary People Will Take Power and Change Politics in the 21st Century

...we need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the "do" part of faith.

Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

I understood that I might fail, but I wouldn't let it happen because I changed my compass along the way.

The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change

They chose to be different. And in doing so, they proved that through struggle, sacrifice and service, staggering personal transformation is possible.

The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change

It was only by focusing on creating joy in her life that I discovered the greatest feeling of happiness in my own.

The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change

I feel like a little tug in a great storm. But I'm fastened to a great ship on ahead. It's going into port and can't lose it's way.

An Ordinary Woman's Extraordinary Faith