Ordinary Moments Quotes

• There are no ordinary moments.

  Dan Millman

  Life, Wisdom, Philosophy

  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives”, p.182, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A good life happens when you stop and are grateful for the ordinary moments that so many of us just steamroll over to try to find those extraordinary moments.

  Brené Brown

  Gratitude, Good Life, Grateful

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• Joy is not a constant. It comes to us in moments - often ordinary moments. Sometimes we miss out on the bursts of joy because we're too busy chasing down the extraordinary moments. Other times we're so afraid of the dark we don't dare let ourselves enjoy the light. A joyful life is not a floodlight of joy. That would eventually become unbearable. I believe a joyful life is made up of joyful moments gracefully strung together by trust, gratitude and inspiration

  Brené Brown

  Gratitude, Inspiration, Believe

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• 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

  Heart, Eye, Simple

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• What a person says and does in ordinary moments when when no one is looking reveals more about true character than grand actions taken while in the spotlight. Our true character is revealed by normal, consistent, everyday attitudes and behavior, not by self-conscious words or deeds or rare acts of moral courage.

  Michael Josephson

  Attitude, Taken, Character

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• Most incredible, however, are the times we know Christ is with us in the midst of our daily, routine lives. In the middle of cleaning the house or driving somewhere in the pick-up, He stops us. . . in our tracks and makes His presence known. Often it's in the middle of the most mundane task that He lets us know He is there with us. We realize, then, that there can be no "ordinary" moments for people who live their lives with Jesus.

  Michael Card

  Jesus, Routine Life, People

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• For them, it was nothing but an ordinary day on an ordinary day on an ordinary weekend, but for her, there was something revelatory about the notion that wonderful moments like these existed.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Weekend, Ordinary Days, Wonderful

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• I believe a joyful life is made up of joyful moments, gracefully strung together by trust, gratitude, inspiration, and faith.

  Brené Brown

  Gratitude, Believe, Inspiration

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• The major impediment to experiencing the sacred depths of ordinary moments is the speed and distraction of contemporary life that moves to the imperatives of the global economic order.In addition, we increasingly live in a virtual world in which our reality is filtered through media and information technology.

  Sam Keen

  Moving, Technology, Reality

  Source: www.spiritualityandpractice.com

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• You have ordinary moments and ordinary moments and more ordinary moments, and then, suddenly, there is something monumental right there. You have past and future colliding in the present, your own personal Big Bang, and nothing will ever be the same.

  Deb Caletti

  Past, Bangs, Ordinary

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• How inevitable it is; we step into an ordinary moment and never come out again.

  Colum McCann

  Ordinary, Steps, Moments

  Colum McCann (2008). “Zoli: A Novel”, p.84, Random House

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• A story has the opportunity to enlighten us, because as we connect the extraordinary moments on film with the ordinary moments of our lives, we ask ourselves, "What am I going to do the next time I'm scared? What would it be like to say goodbye to my family for the last time?"

  Tom Hanks

  Goodbye, Opportunity, Extraordinary Moments

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• There have been many articles about the top regrets that people have when they're dying. They are always, "I missed the ordinary moments." We miss those ordinary moments, and yet, that's what we're trying to distract ourselves from at the same time.

  Geneen Roth

  Regret, People, Missing

  Interview with Suza Scalora, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.

  Chris Marker

  Memories, Remembrance, Ordinary

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• I couldn't remember ordinary moments, only the ones that had made an impression. Ordinary moments were the ones that fell away first.

  David Levithan

  Ordinary, Firsts, Remember

  David Levithan (2011). “Every You, Every Me”, p.86, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• In language that's lyrical and haunting, Cheryl Strayed writes about bliss and loss, about the kind of grace that startles and transforms us in ordinary moments.

  Ursula Hegi

  Writing, Loss, Grace

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• Angels, inasmuch as they come from the Throne Room of the Thrice-holy God, usher us into the presence of God once removed and such encounters with God are more powerful and overwhelming than ordinary moments with God.

  Scot McKnight

  Powerful, Angel, Encounters

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• 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

  Climbing, Self, Ordinary

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• Do you believe in spirits? Or ghosts?...Yes, I do. I believe in ghosts....They're the ones who haunt us. The ones who have left us behind." "Vivian has come back to the idea that the people who matter in our lives stay with us, haunting our ordinary moments. They're with us in the grocery store, as we turn the corner, chat with a friend. They rise up through the pavement; we absorb them through our soles." "The things that matter stay with you, seep into your skin.

  Christina Baker Kline

  Believe, Ideas, People

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• The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of high functioning, a more than ordinary moment of existence. In such moments activity is inevitable, and whether this activity is with brush, pen, chisel, or tongue, its result is but a by-product of the state, a trace, the footprint of the state.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Ordinary, Tongue

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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