27 Quotes About Ordinary-things

We write true things when we're not trying to write extraordinary things.

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.

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.

Those who look for the beauties in the extraordinary things will miss the beauties in the ordinary things!

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:

The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.

May we all be faithful in doing the day-to-day, ordinary things that prove our worthiness, for they will lead us to and qualify us for great things.

Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.