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“It might seem odd that in cities teetering at the edge of the abyss young people still go to class—in this case an evening class on corporate identity and product branding—but that is the way of things, with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West

“The "show business," which is so incorporated into our view of Christian work today, has caused us to drift far from Our Lord's conception of discipleship. It is instilled in us to think that we have to do exceptional things for God; we have not. We have to be exceptional in ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, surrounded by sordid sinners. That is not learned in five minutes.”
― Oswald Chambersd Chambers

“And while it takes courage to achieve greatness, it takes more courage to find fulfillment in being ordinary. For the joys that last have little relationship to achievement, to standing one step higher on the victory platform. What is the adventure in being ordinary? It is daring to love just for the pleasure of giving it away. It is venturing to give new life and to nurture it to maturity. It is working hard for the pure joy of being tired at the end of the day. It is caring and sharing and giving and lovingâ€�”
― Marilyn Thomsen

“But people—the ordinary, the decent and basically honest—couldn’t get through the day without that one indispensable bit of programming that allowed you to say one thing and mean, feel, even do, another.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Jane remembers those years, though, as if they had been [a movie]--in part because her friends...always talked about everything as if it was over ("Remember last night?"), while holding out the possibility that whatever happened could be rerun. Neil didn't have that sense of things. He thought people shouldn't romanticize ordinary life. "Our struggles, our little struggles," he would whisper, in bed, at night. Sometimes he or she would click on some of the flashlights and consider the ceiling, with the radiant swirls around the bright nuclei, the shadows like opened oysters glistening in brine. (In the '80s, the champagne was always waiting.)”
― Ann Beattie, Walks With Men

“Evenings that no one else can remember live in you, when the snow touched your face or the rain caught you unprepared, when you were all alone and yet marked by all the others who have made you who you are. There are things you cannot leave behind or wish you could retrieve. And there is hope you cannot extinguish—whether buried or insistent, broken or confident, the one never excluding the other. (92)”
― Martin Hägglund, This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom

“The more you spend your time in the ordinary streets, the more extraordinary things you will learn!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“But there are moments, walking, when I catch a glimpse of myself in the window glass,
say, the window of the corner video store, and I'm gripped by a cherishing so deep

for my own blowing hair, chapped face, and unbuttoned coat that I'm speechless:
I am living. I remember you.”
― Marie Howe, What the Living Do: Poems

“Life had become a constant battle against the ordinary, a struggle to keep the flame of creativity alive amidst the downpour of routine.”
― Justine Castellon, Gnight, Sara / 'Night, Heck

“After all these months, lying there, unable to move a leg or a foot â€� how could he find perfection in such an average day?
Then I realized that was the whole point.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“I marvelled, not for the first time, at the cruel complacency of ordinary things. But no, not cruel, not complacent, only indifferent, as how could they be otherwise? Henceforth, I would have to address things as they are, not as I imagine them, for this was a new version of reality.”
― John Banville, The Sea

“There was nothing inherently special about it, but that's what made the whole thing so memorable.”
― Emma Eggleston, Escape

“Let us go to an ordinary street to feel that life is beautiful with all the ordinary things, with cats around, with children playing, with laundries hanged out, with people wandering aimlessly!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“But the point was to be carefree, independent. Artists can't be hampered by the dailiness of ordinary life--Tony felt strongly about that. Doing the same things every day, forever bothered about money. Art has to be freed from all that.”
― Penelope Lively, The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories

“I could live with failure. I had and would. But ORDINARY? Not a fucking chance.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle, KING OF THE NEW YORK STREETS

“I'm smart enough to see whatever is going on. Too dumb to piece it all together. Not dumb enough to live a simple fantasy and just go with it.”
― Billy-Dean Gonzalez

“Simple things are the most difficult ones; they enquire much more than one thought of ordinariness.”
― Laura Chouette

“In a world of the ordinary and predictable, be a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“...there’s different ways of experiencing time. And one is the kind of time that you and I know really intimately, which is tragic time. And we know what it’s like to feel that heightened present where everything really matters because you have to make choices, because everything you love is so precious. And also, we know that we can’t live there forever, because we are just not â€� we’re not built to live that edge, that close to the edge all the time.

And then there’s � he reminded me of ordinary time, or pastoral time. Anyone who’s a farmer knows there’s sowing and reaping time. And I was always, the more I was into tragic time, the more I was a little judgmental about that. I was like: It sounds very boring; it sounds very commonplace. But that’s the � who’s picking up your mom on Tuesday? Did you send that email? Have you made that phone call? It’s all the wonderful, stupid, ordinary stuff of day-to-day life. And like, that is also necessary and good.

And then there is something that we’ve all experienced together, very recently, which is apocalyptic time. It’s the feeling that there’s a heightened � that we know that the future is not guaranteed and that there is a kind of lightness and darkness and � like binaries. We’re kind of wrapped up in binaries about how we’re seeing the world. And we experience apocalypticism with our environment: like wildfires and global warming� and fear of � and we see it and we feel it. We experience the apocalyptic time when we see the scope and magnitude of racial injustice, as we understand that structures are not just broken but that they collapse in on people, and that the weak are not sheltered, and that the poor are not cared for, and that far more people are not given the luxury of invulnerability, and can’t and won’t. And in all these forms of time, we have this feeling like we’re seeing things as they really are � like that feeling when you count your kid’s eyelashes and you think, “I see the whole world in just right now.�

But the truth is, all of them are true, and we toggle between them all, all the time. And so we just can’t live in any one version for too long, frankly, without not really seeing the scope of â€� what the wholeness of our lives require.”
― Kate Bowler

“And I want that - to prove that the most ordinary thing about human beings is not violence or greed but love and care. To prove it to whom, I wonder. Myself, maybe.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful world, where are you

“The beauty of ordinary lives of ordinary people in the ordinary streets is always extraordinary!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“It was what Joseph had missed most during the war, all the small, scattered pieces of the precious and luminous ordinary, evidence that life insists on continuing.”
― Marisa de los Santos, I'll Be Your Blue Sky

“The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is a God of the living, who mingles with our acquaintances and colleagues. If we open ourselves to life as the arena of divine self-disclosure, we may find the Lord who undergirds our lives with the certainty of dignity and value at any point in our experience.”
― Wilkie Au, By Way of the Heart: Toward a Holistic Christian Spirituality

“How can I ever do anything extraordinary with such a mundane existence?”
― Soulla Christodoulou, Alexander and Maria

“The overwhelming and inevitable life-lean towards the ordinary is why true deep-pile contentment is found when you re-enchant the everyday.”
― Catherine Gray, The Unexpected Joy of the Ordinary

“You spend too much time with ordinary women who live ordinary lives—they don’t expand you. That’s why you can never calibrate to higher levels your true sensual potential.”
― Lebo Grand

“You spend too much time with ordinary women who live ordinary lives—they don’t expand you. That’s why you can never calibrate to higher levels of your true sensual potential.”
― Lebo Grand

“Now, if there is one thing of which I have been certain since my boyhood, and grow more certain as I advance in age, it is that nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze. All this talk of waiting for experiences in order to write, is simply a confession of incapacity to experience anything.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Selected Essays

“Many a time we seek drama in our surroundings to spark up our daily life. However, reality is not a fairy story, and is often anti-climatic. But there’s the comedy!”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“CURIOSITY - ... a childlike sense of CURIOSITY will often times lead to the ORDINARY becoming... EXTRAORDINARY”
― AshRawArt