There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.
C.S. LewisTag: religion christ neighbor ordinary-people
People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.
Judith GuestTag: life smile emotions feelings depression ordinary-people judith-guest
A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent with his own being. Deep down he knows that restaurant service is the closest thing he will ever experience to being served like a king.
Criss JamiTag: selfish service labor attention king ordinary-people royalty insecurity restaurants discontent disrespect waiter inconsiderate waitress food-industry food-service
Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.
Haruki MurakamiTag: friends imperfection ordinary-people
Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.
Judith GuestTag: reality people illusion ordinary-people ordinary judith-guest
Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.
Judith GuestTag: life forgiveness ordinary-people meaninglessness judith-guest meaningless
People use people according to their own needs. Or don't use them. When a primary need is one of safety.
Judith GuestTag: people needs ordinary-people judith-guest
For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the activists or the famous writers. You have to look at how normal people manage with such things in their pasts.
Anna FunderTag: past stories normal ordinary-people ordinary gdr stasi easy-germany
The pretty ones are usually unhappy. They expect everyone to be enamored of their beauty. How can a person be content when their happiness lies in someone else's hands, ready to be crushed at any moment? Ordinary-looking people are far superior, because they are forced to actually work hard to achieve their goals, instead of expecting people to fall all over themselves to help them.
J. Cornell MichelTag: goals happiness beauty goal happy control depression achievement apocalypse expectations unhappiness apocalyptic helping-others help hard-work beautiful superiority zombie depressing superior pretty ordinary-people zombies helping unhappy crush depressed achieve ordinary ordinariness expect pretty-girls crushed work-hard zombie-apocalypse pretty-people enamored ordinary-looking ordinary-looks
I don't think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All he has to do is recognize it and then cultivate it and get going with it. I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman, or child.
Joseph CampbellTag: life ordinary-people specialness
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