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a30d230	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.	life ordinary extraordinary advice lives children	William Martin
6709e36	You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.	time ordinary important	Mitch Albom
d10c435	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	seeing underdog inspirational ordinary extraordinary observation buffy-the-vampire-slayer power	Joss Whedon
9ed22e7	No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.	life ordinary	H. P. Lovecraft
b55de14	There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not gifted in poetry, it is at least worth while from time to time making an effort to shake off the anaesthetic. What is the best way of countering the sluggish habitutation brought about by our gradual crawl from babyhood? We can't actually fly to another planet. But we can recapture that sense of having just tumbled out to life on a new world by looking at our own world in unfamiliar ways.	wonder ordinary strange	Richard Dawkins
56e46b2	It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.	life truth ordinary extraordinary	Jodi Picoult
121edb1	I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any given moment, we might improve, or at least disguise or present our defects and screw-ups in either more charming or more intimidating ways.	ordinary self	Anne Lamott
396ab2c	One minute. You know nothing about him. He probably has his own joys and interests- wife, children, snug little home. That's where we practical fellows'- he smiled-'are more tolerant than you intellectuals. We live and let live, and assume that things are jogging on fairly well elsewhere, and that the ordinary plain man may be trusted to look after his own affairs.	live ordinary nothing	E.M. Forster
86340b1	...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.	life ordinary	Bill Bryson
cf9c3bb	Holiness has most often been revealed to me in the exquisite pun of the first syllable, in holes- in not enough help, in brokenness, mess. High holy places, with ethereal sounds and stained glass, can massage my illusion of holiness, but in holes and lostness I can pick up the light of small ordinary progress, newly made moments flecked like pepper into the slog and the disruptions.	faith ordinary holy holiness	Anne Lamott
35efc6b	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.	winter story life ordinary record	Markus Zusak
95f0da7	It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, then it should have been someone else, someone dark, mysterious and profoundly clever, not an ordinary person who was impatient for no reason and cross when one was late for lunch.	men clever dark love embarrass impatient late ordinary embarrassment mediocrity mother mystery mysterious father impatience	Daphne du Maurier
f6fe3e1	You soon get tired of what's extraordinary, dragon rider. It's often the most ordinary things that bring great happiness.	happiness dragon-rider ordinary extraordinary	Cornelia Funke
c4af3c8	It's never hard to act ordinary if you feel ordinary.	heaven life ordinary	Mitch Albom
0eaec6c	There was nothing Mandy had wanted more than to give her full attention to the world of Personifications and ignore those who ignored her in society. She'd wanted to talk out loud to Alecto, to have conversations in front of other ordinary people. Unfortunately, to do that in front of ordinary people would only prove her insanity, and although Mandy was naive at times, she wasn't stupid.	friendship personification ordinary conversation friend talk insanity insane mental-illness psychology	Rebecca McNutt
721832c	"All that Delaura noticed, though, was the uproarious crowing of the roosters.	ordinary superstition supernatural	Gabriel García Márquez
a690594	"Oh, trust me Sydney Tar Ponds, you aren't the first Personification to be forgotten by somebody ordinary," Mearth sighed with a falsely-reassuring smile. Alecto stepped back from her, glaring hatefully. "Sydney Tar Ponds," Mearth added, "I've had so many ordinary people as friends in my life that by now I've forgotten all their names. At first it was difficult... very sad... to see them always leaving, dying, disappearing, ignoring, but after a while I realized that they weren't worth the trouble. I'd rather be in the company of other Personifications. At least they aren't always dropping dead like houseflies or sailing away to parts unknown. Nil sa saol seo ach ceo, i ni bheimid beo, ach seal beag gearr. Wouldn't you agree?" "No," Alecto told her. "I think you're insane."	loss human death friendship housefly mother-earth personification ordinary pollution friend irish forget sad insane dying memory	Rebecca McNutt
bfd58d2	"Alecto... what do you think would happen if people found out about you? Your abilities, your life, Mearth's super 8 films, those powers of yours... how would they react?" "I don't know," said Alecto, "but ordinary people like a show, especially when it's a disturbing one. They enjoy seeing misery... probably because it allows them to pretend that they themselves are not so miserable, too. Also, they would probably find out about you, how you know about Personifications, how you saw the films... they would put us in cages and throw peanuts at us, I guess." "All joking aside, Alecto...." "Who is joking, Mandy Valems?"	humor peanuts psychokinesis psychokinetic pyrokinetic super-8 super-8-film super-eight telekinesis throw pyrokinesis ordinary show film powers misery joke	Rebecca McNutt

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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.

life ordinary extraordinary advice lives children

William  Martin

6709e36

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

time ordinary important

Mitch Albom

d10c435

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

seeing underdog inspirational ordinary extraordinary observation buffy-the-vampire-slayer power

Joss Whedon

9ed22e7

No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.

life ordinary

H. P. Lovecraft

b55de14

There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not gifted in poetry, it is at least worth while from time to time making an effort to shake off the anaesthetic. What is the best way of countering the sluggish habitutation brought about by our gradual crawl from babyhood? We can't actually fly to another planet. But we can recapture that sense of having just tumbled out to life on a new world by looking at our own world in unfamiliar ways.

wonder ordinary strange

Richard Dawkins

56e46b2

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

life truth ordinary extraordinary

Jodi Picoult

121edb1

I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any given moment, we might improve, or at least disguise or present our defects and screw-ups in either more charming or more intimidating ways.

ordinary self

Anne Lamott

396ab2c

One minute. You know nothing about him. He probably has his own joys and interests- wife, children, snug little home. That's where we practical fellows'- he smiled-'are more tolerant than you intellectuals. We live and let live, and assume that things are jogging on fairly well elsewhere, and that the ordinary plain man may be trusted to look after his own affairs.

live ordinary nothing

E.M. Forster

86340b1

...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.

life ordinary

Bill Bryson

cf9c3bb

Holiness has most often been revealed to me in the exquisite pun of the first syllable, in holes- in not enough help, in brokenness, mess. High holy places, with ethereal sounds and stained glass, can massage my illusion of holiness, but in holes and lostness I can pick up the light of small ordinary progress, newly made moments flecked like pepper into the slog and the disruptions.

faith ordinary holy holiness

Anne Lamott

35efc6b

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.

winter story life ordinary record

Markus Zusak

95f0da7

It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, then it should have been someone else, someone dark, mysterious and profoundly clever, not an ordinary person who was impatient for no reason and cross when one was late for lunch.

men clever dark love embarrass impatient late ordinary embarrassment mediocrity mother mystery mysterious father impatience

Daphne du Maurier

f6fe3e1

You soon get tired of what's extraordinary, dragon rider. It's often the most ordinary things that bring great happiness.

happiness dragon-rider ordinary extraordinary

Cornelia Funke

c4af3c8

It's never hard to act ordinary if you feel ordinary.

heaven life ordinary

Mitch Albom

0eaec6c

There was nothing Mandy had wanted more than to give her full attention to the world of Personifications and ignore those who ignored her in society. She'd wanted to talk out loud to Alecto, to have conversations in front of other ordinary people. Unfortunately, to do that in front of ordinary people would only prove her insanity, and although Mandy was naive at times, she wasn't stupid.

friendship personification ordinary conversation friend talk insanity insane mental-illness psychology

Rebecca McNutt

721832c

"All that Delaura noticed, though, was the uproarious crowing of the roosters.

ordinary superstition supernatural

Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

a690594

"Oh, trust me Sydney Tar Ponds, you aren't the first Personification to be forgotten by somebody ordinary," Mearth sighed with a falsely-reassuring smile. Alecto stepped back from her, glaring hatefully. "Sydney Tar Ponds," Mearth added, "I've had so many ordinary people as friends in my life that by now I've forgotten all their names. At first it was difficult... very sad... to see them always leaving, dying, disappearing, ignoring, but after a while I realized that they weren't worth the trouble. I'd rather be in the company of other Personifications. At least they aren't always dropping dead like houseflies or sailing away to parts unknown. Nil sa saol seo ach ceo, i ni bheimid beo, ach seal beag gearr. Wouldn't you agree?" "No," Alecto told her. "I think you're insane."

loss human death friendship housefly mother-earth personification ordinary pollution friend irish forget sad insane dying memory

Rebecca McNutt

bfd58d2

"Alecto... what do you think would happen if people found out about you? Your abilities, your life, Mearth's super 8 films, those powers of yours... how would they react?" "I don't know," said Alecto, "but ordinary people like a show, especially when it's a disturbing one. They enjoy seeing misery... probably because it allows them to pretend that they themselves are not so miserable, too. Also, they would probably find out about you, how you know about Personifications, how you saw the films... they would put us in cages and throw peanuts at us, I guess." "All joking aside, Alecto...." "Who is joking, Mandy Valems?"

humor peanuts psychokinesis psychokinetic pyrokinetic super-8 super-8-film super-eight telekinesis throw pyrokinesis ordinary show film powers misery joke

Rebecca McNutt