"No one is ever ordinary."
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"I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere, at the most commonplace thing, scratch around in it long enough, pry and dig away long enough, and lo!, soon he will hit upon the marvelous."
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"Rely on the teaching, not on the person; Rely on the meaning, not on the words; Rely on the definitive meaning, not on the provisional; Rely on your wisdom mind, not on your ordinary mind."
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"Any deviation from the ordinary course of life in this quiet town was enough to stop all progress in it."
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"Marmee: Oh, Jo. Jo, you have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead an ordinary life? You’re ready to go out and – and find a good use for your talent. Tho’ I don’t know what I shall do without my Jo. Go, and embrace your liberty. And see what wonderful things come of it."
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"From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the sense of discrimination between oneself and others is the worst form, as it creates nothing but unpleasantness for both sides. If we can realize and meditate on ultimate truth, it will cleanse our impurities of mind and thus eradicate the sense of discrimination. This will help to create true love for one another. The search for ultimate truth is, therefore, vitally important."
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"I try to be available for life to happen to me. We're in this life, and if you're not available, the sort of ordinary time goes past and you didn’t live it. But if you're available, life gets huge. You're really living it."
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"To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder."
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"When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man."
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"The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices."
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"The challenge is always to find the ultimate in the ordinary horseshit."
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"A lawsuit is to ordinary life what war is to peacetime. In a lawsuit, everybody on the other side is bad. A trial transcript is a discourse in malevolence."
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"Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives."
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"Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination."
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"Ordinary people have extraordinary love."
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"The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men."
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"Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified."
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"And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things."
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"Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries."
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"Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill."
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