Carpe diem.Seize the day, boys.
Make your lives extraordinary
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There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not gifted in poetry, it is at least worth while from time to time making an effort to shake off the anaesthetic. What is the best way of countering the sluggish habitutation brought about by our gradual crawl from babyhood? We can't actually fly to another planet. But we can recapture that sense of having just tumbled out to life on a new world by looking at our own world in unfamiliar ways.
Richard DawkinsTags: wonder strange awe ordinary
She finds this objectivity of hers, this clarity, almost more depressing than she can bear, not because there is anything hideous or repellant about this man but because he has now returned to the ordinary level, the level of things she can see, in all their amazing and complex particularity, but cannot touch.
Margaret AtwoodTags: objectivity ordinary
One minute. You know nothing about him. He probably has his own joys and interests- wife, children, snug little home. That's where we practical fellows'- he smiled-'are more tolerant than you intellectuals. We live and let live, and assume that things are jogging on fairly well elsewhere, and that the ordinary plain man may be trusted to look after his own affairs.
E.M. ForsterTags: live intellectuals nothing ordinary
You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.
Mitch AlbomTags: time important find ordinary
the times we worked harder to make the day stand out.
our story demanded that we change and so we did.
Tags: ordinary
If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person. If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordinary person. Do not chase happiness; let it chase you.
Petar DunovTags: happiness extraordinary ordinary chase pursue
Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
Oscar WildeOrdinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible
Cherie Carter-ScottTags: impossible extraordinary ordinary possible
The trouble in life is not that you are extraordinarily or ordinarily talented but you are read posthumously.
Santosh KalwarTags: life talent read extraordinary trouble ordinary
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