There are two days in my calendar: This day and that Day. — Martin Luther
Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily. — Saint Francis de Sales
Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations. — Charles Richter
In life, one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day-or to celebrate each special day. — Rasheed Ogunlaru
One of these days, is none of these days. — Proverbs
When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises. — Paulo Coelho
Every day is different so there is no like routine. — MrBeast
Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions. — Samuel Butler
Do ordinary things with extraordinary love. — Mother Teresa
The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. — Thomas Moore
Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. — Ernest Hemingway
The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year. — Mark Twain
April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four. — Mark Twain
Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it's your turn. — Lou Holtz
When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere. — John Wyndham
Short Ordinary Days Quotes
The ordinary are here to fit into the world; the extraordinary are here to create their own worlds. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Do the dull things right so the extraordinary things will not be required too often. — Earl Weaver
Each day provides its own gifts. — Marcus Aurelius
There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow — Mahatma Gandhi
Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle. — Paulo Coelho
Everyday holds the possibility of a miracle. — Elizabeth David
Earth's saddest day and gladdest day were just three days apart! — Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. — Maya Angelou
For the wise man, every day is a festival. — Plutarch
Never get so fascinated by the extraordinary that you forget the ordinary. — Magdalen Nabb
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
Day Date Quotes
Men will surrender to the spirit of the age. They will say that if they had lived in our day, faith would be simple and easy. But in their day, they will say, things are complex; the Church must be brought up to date and made meaningful to the day's problems. — Anthony of Padua
Something is wrong if workers do not look around each day, find things that are tedious or boring, and then rewrite the procedures. Even last month's manual should be out of date — Taiichi Ohno
You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time. — Edgar Degas
August 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad. — George Monbiot
Working with the right person can make the toughest day go well, and working with the wrong person can make the simplest task excruciatingly difficult. — Scott Kelly
The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: "Do not turn away a poor man...even if all you can give is half a date. If you love the poor and bring them near you...God will bring you near Him on the Day of Resurrection." — Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi
I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny. — Coco Chanel
I’m a guy who doesn’t really care about glamour and big markets; I like to be home all day. — Giannis Antetokounmpo
What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone. — Eckhart Tolle
Hey, I drank milk that was a DAY past its expiration date. Now THAT is extreme! — Kurt Angle
When Days Were Good Quotes
That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the good old days when we wished we were dead. — Samuel Beckett
Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts. — Sheri S. Tepper
There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay. — Mary Oliver
Green Day is like sex, when were good, were really good, when were bad . . . were still pretty damn good. — Mike Dirnt
Honestly, I believe that you are only as good as your last game. And so there were games and tournaments and days when I was like, "I'm probably the best player in the world." And there were some where I'm like, "Oh god, I'm terrible." I think that pushed me all the time. — Hayley Wickenheiser
I suppose that if we in intelligence were one day given three wishes, they would be to know everything, to be believed when we spoke, and in such a way to exercise an influence to the good in the matter of policy. — Sherman Kent
You do realize that the cost of that bracelet is within spitting distance of my going rate as an assassin, right?” “You mean your going rate back when you were actually killing people for money,” Finn said. “Or as I like to call them— the good ole days. — Jennifer Estep
Al Capone's my uncle. The old days were a lot different. The Latin Casino was the big time. When I got there I figured that I was doing pretty good, because remember, I started in nothing but after hours joints. I can't even name them now, but that's how I got noticed. — Don Rickles
Finding your purpose may be a lifelong pursuit or you may have discovered it when you were 5 years old. There's no absolute timeline for anyone. That's a good reason never to give up, to keep on discovering things every day. — Donald Trump
When men are employed, they are best contented; for on the days they worked they were good-natured and cheerful, and, with the consciousness of having done a good day's work, they spent the evening jollily; but on our idle days they were mutinous and quarrelsome. — Benjamin Franklin
Ordinary Life Quotes
Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary. — Oscar Wilde
Life is too short, the world is too big and God's love is too great to live ordinary. — Christine Caine
People don't want to see the guy next door on the stage, they want to see a being from another planet. You want to see somebody you'd never meet in ordinary life. — Lemmy Kilmister
The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart. — Mencius
Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny. — C. S. Lewis
If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear. People who can open to the web of life that called us into being — Joanna Macy
Life gives to all the choice. You can satisfy yourself with mediocrity if you wish. You can be common, ordinary, dull, colorless, or yyou can channel your life so that it will be clean, vibrant, useful, progressive, colorful, and rich. — Spencer W. Kimball
I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives. — Tracy Chapman
The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to despise what you can't have. Show me a man who fears being ordinary, and I'll show you a man who is not yet a man. — Yukio Mishima
When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten. — Mary MacLane
Ordinary Things Quotes
Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul. — Charles Bukowski
Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness. — Jean Vanier
Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith. — Pope Francis
We must strive to do ordinary things extraordinarily well. — Catherine McAuley
Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else. — Chuck Noll
Successful people do ordinary things with extraordinary consistency, commitment and focus. — Jon Gordon
If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out. — Chuck Noll
Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. — John W. Gardner
The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . ! — Twiggy
Ordinary Moments Quotes
My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother’s voice and smile. — Jennifer Garner
If the triggers for happy moments are so ordinary and so accessible, why does 'finding' happiness remain such a big challenge for so many people? And why, when we 'find' it, does it so easily slip away? — Mo Gawdat
At its finest moments climbing allows me to step out of ordinary existence into something extraordinary, stripping me of my sense of self-importance. — Doug Scott
What would be frightening about me jumping out of the bush wearing a pig mask is not the sudden surprise, not me, and not the pig mask, but that the ordinary world had split open for a moment to reveal some possibility never previously considered. — Peter Straub
Everything has two aspects: the current aspect, which we see nearly always and which ordinary men see, and the ghostly and metaphysical aspect, which only rare individuals may see in moments of clairvoyance and metaphysical abstraction. — Giorgio de Chirico
Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life. — Brian Andreas
Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars. — Chris Marker
If you're at the sink washing the cup, wash the cup. Don't worry about everything else. ... We forget to appreciate the simplest moments of the day, the sublime in the ordinary. — Julia Roberts
We have to make good use of the time we have. That simple. We have to wake up every day, knowing that it's not just an ordinary day. We have to take the moment, seize each day. — Orlando Bloom
Ordinary World Quotes
My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to Hollywood. I should have made him a perfectly normal, sane, ordinary person, and sent him to Hollywood. The audience identifies with the lead character. — Gene Wilder
The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things. — Hans Christian Andersen
There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet. — William Halsey
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. — Isaac Newton
To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite. — Novalis
Just try to make the world a better place for your having been here. — Jimmy Doolittle
Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world. — Pema Chodron
If ordinary people really knew that consciousness and not matter is the link that connects us with each other and the world, then their views about war and peace, environmental pollution, social justice, religous values, and all other human endeavors would change radically. — Amit Goswami
The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self. — Ted Hughes
Ordinary Love Quotes
Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay small acts of kindness and love. — Peter Jackson
Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions. Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change. The flux of the human heart is gone forever at the transfixing touch of pure love. — Sri Yukteswar Giri
Fashion is only complete when it is worn by ordinary people who exist now, managing their lives, loving and grieving. — Yohji Yamamoto
Every ordinary thing in your life is a word of God's love: your home, your work, the clothes you wear, the air you breathe, the food you eat.... the flowers under your feet are the courtesy of God's heart flung down on You! All these things say one thing only: "See how I love you." — Caryll Houselander
She’s a smart woman. I love that. Intelligence is a wonderful and powerful aphrodisiac. To me, it enhances beauty, makes an ordinary woman look like a movie star. — Eric Jerome Dickey
Love is a romantic designation for a most ordinary biological process-or, shall we say, chemical-process ... a lot of nonsense is talked and written about it. — Greta Garbo
When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors. It should be a rule that bad writers must start with plain heroines and ordinary mornings, and, if they are able, work up to something better. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess. — H. L. Mencken
Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life. — Marilynne Robinson
Ordinary People Quotes
God never intended His people to be ordinary or commonplace. His intentions were that they should be on fire for Him, conscious of His divine power, realizing the glory of the cross that foreshadows the crown. — Smith Wigglesworth
Shortly, the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves. They'll only be able to parrot the information they've been given on the previous night's news. — Zbigniew Brzezinski
For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Roentgen fogged some photographic plates. And these people knew enough to translate ordinary happenings into something new. — Alexander Fleming
Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary. — Gerard Way
Pay any price to stay in the presence of extraordinary people. — Mike Murdock
To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality. — Alice Paul
There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet. — William Halsey
It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached. — Mike Huckabee
We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don’t like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary. — Carol S. Dweck
To see something spectacular and recognise it as a photographic possibility is not making a very big leap. But to see something ordinary, something you’d see every day, and recognize it as a photographic possibility - that is what I am interested in. — Stephen Shore
The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days. — Stephen Jay Gould
If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody, and no unemployment — assuming a certain very moderate amount of sensible organization. This idea shocks the well-to-do, because they are convinced that the poor would not know how to use so much leisure. — Bertrand Russell
Every night before I go to sleep I say out loud three things that I am grateful for, all the significant, insignificant, extraordinary, ordinary stuff of my life. It is s small practice and humble, and yet, I find I sleep better holding what lightens and softens my life every so briefly at the end of the day. — Carrie Newcomer
We danced too wild, and we sang too long, and we hugged too hard, and we kissed too sweet, and howled just as loud as we wanted to howl, because by now we were all old enough to know that what looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight. — Pearl Cleage
One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Gratitude places you in the energy field of plentitude. Perceiving life in a consciousness of gratitude is literally stepping into another dimension of living. Suddenly the seeming ordinariness of your days takes on a divine sparkle. — Michael Beckwith
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority. — John Roberts
In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings. — Alfred Hitchcock
During those days when you're exhausted and during those days when you're frustrated, during those days when you're being attacked by your own people for doing what you think is right, remember you're part of a progression that goes back a long time of ordinary people who are doing their best to make it a better world. — Cleve Jones
One skill you want to master in this day and age we live in, if you want to have an extraordinary life, is the ability to learn rapidly — Tony Robbins
I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at the end the reader sees, and with little reluctance, that he is not abnormal at all, and that the main character might as well be himself. — Patricia Highsmith
Thus, on this World Refugee Day, let us take time to recognize and draw inspiration from these ordinary people who have shown such extraordinary courage - the world's millions of refugees and displaced. — Antonio Guterres
It is difficult, none the less, for the ordinary man to cast off orthodox beliefs, for he is seldom allowed to hear the other side... Whereas the Christian view is pressed on him day in and day out. — Margaret E. Knight
We did a 60 page book in one day. She's one of the most photogenic, easy to shoot, inspiring, extraordinary people in front of the camera who I've ever photographed. Yes Taylor Swift has it all. My goodness that girl has it all, what can I say she's extraordinary. — Nigel Barker
No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a family of small children; for upon her time and strength demands are made not only every hour of the day but often every hour of the night. — Theodore Roosevelt
Subtly, in the little ways, joy has been leaking out of our lives. The small pleasures of the ordinary day seem almost contemptible, and glance off us lightly...Perhaps it's a good time to reconsider pleasure at its roots. Changing out of wet shoes and socks, for instance. Bathrobes. Yawning and stretching. Real tomatoes. — Barbara Holland
Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day. — Billie Joe Armstrong
Every day, it seems, a new extreme weather catastrophe happens somewhere in America, and the medias all over it, profiling the ordinary folks wiped out by forest fires, droughts, floods, massive sinkholes, tornadoes. — Jane Velez-Mitchell
I welcome each new day with a hopeful expectancy that I, too, will rise above the ordinary. For I am not content to live a merely 'normal' life or settle for an average existence. No, I am destined for more - much, much more. — Melody Carlson
You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute. — Mitch Albom
There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint. — Dean Young
Remember, Angels are both God's messengers and God's message, witness to eternity in time, to the presence of the divine amidst the ordinary. Every moment of every day is riddled by their traces. — Forrest Church
Valentine's Day is devoted to love. Why don't we have a day devoted to hatred? The raw, visceral hatred that is felt every hour of the day by ordinary people, but is repressed for reasons of social order. I think it would be very cathartic, and it would certainly make for an exciting six o'clock news. — George Carlin
If you're really a good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read, and you'll be produced somehow. It just works that way. If you're just a simple ordinary day-to-day craftsman, no different than most, then the likelihood is that you probably won't make it in writing. — Rod Serling
It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life. It's how we make and keep commitments, how we handle a traffic jam, how we respond to an irate customer or a disobedient child. It's how we view our problems and where we focus our energies. It's the language we use. — Stephen Covey
It has taken awhile, but I certainly do know it now – the most wonderful gift I had, the gift I finally learned to cherish above all else, was the gift of all those perfectly ordinary days. — Katrina Kenison
A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye. — Jodi Picoult
I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day . . . — Harvey Pekar
It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at home. I was taking down some curtains. I took one step, turned around, took another step and then I fell and hit my head hard on the rowing machine. — Jonah Lomu
It's time for ordinary Americans to come out of the shadows and remind Washington every day in words and actions that we are a sovereign nation, not a sanctuary nation. — Michelle Malkin
An ordinary man will work every day for a year at shoveling dirt to support his body, or a family of bodies; but he is an extraordinary man who will work a whole day in a year for the support of his soul. Even the priests, men of God, so called, for the most part confess that they work for the support of the body. — Henry David Thoreau
Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors. — Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Every day, each of us makes a multitude of choices that will impact our lives...the quality of our choices will dictate whether we will struggle in frustration or live an extraordinary life--the life of our dreams. — Debbie Ford
The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things. — Mia Love
We must learn to live in the ordinary 'gray' day according to what we saw on the mountain. — Oswald Chambers
Never stop hoping for all of the righteous desires of your heart. But don't close your eyes and hearts to the simple and elegant beauties of each day's ordinary moments that make up a rich, well-lived life — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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