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Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself.
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advice
children
extraordinary
life
lives
ordinary
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William Martin |
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Seven years, Dawn. Working with the Slayer. Seeing my friends get more and more powerful... a witch. A demon. Hell, I could fit Oz in my shaving kit, but come a full moon, he had a wolfy mojo not to be messed with. Powerful, all of them. And I'm the guy who fixes the windows
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buffy-the-vampire-slayer
extraordinary
inspirational
observation
ordinary
power
seeing
underdog
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Joss Whedon |
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It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.
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extraordinary
life
ordinary
truth
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Jodi Picoult |
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Rover did not know in the least where the moon's path led to, and at present he was much too frightened and excited to ask, and anyway he was beginning to get used to extraordinary things happening to him.
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extraordinary
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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He finds it extraordinary that on some mornings, just after he has woken up, as he bends down to tie his shoes, he is flooded with a happiness so intense, a happiness so naturally and harmoniously at one with the world, that he can feel himself alive in the present, a present that surrounds him and permeates him, that breaks through him with the sudden, overwhelming knowledge that he is alive. And the happiness he discovers in himself at that moment is extraordinary.
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extraordinary
happiness
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Paul Auster |
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When we set about accounting for a Napoleon or a Shakespeare or a Raphael or a Wagner or an Edison or other extraordinary person, we understand that the measure of his talent will not explain the whole result, nor even the largest part of it; no, it is the atmosphere in which the talent was cradled that explains; it is the training it received while it grew, the nurture it got from reading, study, example, the encouragement it gathered from self-recognition and recognition from the outside at each stage of its development: when we know all these details, then we know why the man was ready when his opportunity came.
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extraordinary
genius
learning
napoleon-bonaparte
nurture
raphael
richard-wagner
study
talent
thomas-edison
training
william-shakespeare
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Mark Twain |
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When something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.
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extraordinary
home
inspirational
love
taking-chances
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Barbara Kingsolver |
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For it cannot be denied that all over the world and in all ages there are beings who are perceived to be extraordinary, charming, and appealing, and whom many honor as benevolent spirits, because they make one think of a more beautiful, a freer, a more winged life than the one we lead.
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extraordinary
free
hermann-hesse
hesse
inspirational
life
metamorphoses
pictor-s
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Hermann Hesse |
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You soon get tired of what's extraordinary, dragon rider. It's often the most ordinary things that bring great happiness.
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dragon-rider
extraordinary
happiness
ordinary
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Cornelia Funke |
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"Looking back, I know that the man possessed no gift of prophecy; he simply worked to assure his own future, while I skated uncertainly toward mine. It was his flat-voiced "Cherchez la femme" that still haunts me. Because our partnership was nothing but a bungling road to the Dahlia. "
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detective
extraordinary
noir
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James Ellroy |