Ordinary Things Quotes

“When we feel betrayed by the vagaries of life, and our wet dreams turn out to be nightmares, let us keep eyes wide open and look for the sparks in the glance of the people. They not only can share a shard of oxytocin but also inspire us to appreciate the fragrance of the ordinary things we have ignored for so long. (“A handful of dust”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“The abundance of ordinary things, their convenient arrangement here, seemed for the moment a personal gift to me. As did my ability to notice this, to be grateful for it.”
― Sue Miller, While I Was Gone

“Is there anything more beautiful than gold?” - Freya's question.

Plain-thoughted Thor spoke. “A farm at first light
Is more beautiful than gold, or
A ship's sails in the mist.
Many ordinary things are far more beautiful.”
― George Webbe Dasent, Popular Tales from Norse Mythology

“Those who look for the beauties in the extraordinary things will miss the beauties in the ordinary things!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The older I get, the more I see the truth. Greatness can be found anywhere. It doesn't need grandeur. There's greatness in the ordinary. Maybe even more than elsewhere.”
― Sarah McCoy, Marilla of Green Gables

“True gratitude is about the ordinary.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“We can not all love in the same way -
for the feeling would be called ordinariness instead.
And of that, the world has too much already.”
― Laura Chouette

“The word normal would lose all of its meaning if it didn't have an opposite. And if there were no normal people, the world would probably fall apart - because it's normal people who take care of all the normal things like making sure there is food at the grocery store and delivering the mail and putting up traffic lights and making sure our toilets work properly and growing food on farms and flying airplanes safely and making sure the president of the United States has clean suits to wear.”
― Matthew Quick, The Good Luck of Right Now

“To define a person or people as ordinary is a fallacy, for to breathe, think, choose, and love is anything but ordinary… on the contrary, people are extraordinary. It is those things and situations we encounter that can be ordinary.”
― Nanette L. Avery

“Now I deny most energetically that anything is, or can be, uninteresting.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Selected Essays

“I know that "what´s up" is just something people say, but it´s a very hard thing to say anything back to.”
― Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

“But reason... tells us that merely with repetition the extraordinary becomes ordinary, and only briefly abandoned, what had once passed for a common and ordinary occurrence becomes a portent:”
― Carlos Fuentes, Terra Nostra

“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

“The more strange things you see throughout your life, the more mental leaps you will have, and the more ordinary things you see throughout your life, the more mental stagnation you will experience!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

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

“Life’s most sacred wonders are not always loud or grand; they are often in the stillness... gentle, ordinary gifts that we so often hurry past”
― AshRawArt

“On the Lazarská tram stop, passengers' long shadows cast themselves onto the cobblestone cubes of the pavement.”
― Rajesh Dhawan, Not Much: Writings of wonder in the ordinary