“I have realized; it is during the times I am far outside my element that I experience myself the most. That I see and feel who I really am, the most! I think that's what a comet is like, you see, a comet is born in the outer realms of the universe! But it's only when it ventures too close to our sun or to other stars that it releases the blazing "tail" behind it and shoots brazen through the heavens! And meteors become sucked into our atmosphere before they burst like firecrackers and realize that they're shooting stars! That's why I enjoy taking myself out of my own element, my own comfort zone, and hurling myself out into the unknown. Because it's during those scary moments, those unsure steps taken, that I am able to see that I'm like a comet hitting a new atmosphere: suddenly I illuminate magnificently and fire dusts begin to fall off of me! I discover a smile I didn't know I had, I uncover a feeling that I didn't know existed in me... I see myself. I'm a shooting star. A meteor shower. But I'm not going to die out. I guess I'm more like a comet then. I'm just going to keep on coming back.”
― C. JoyBell C.
― C. JoyBell C.
tags: astronomy, challenges, comets, comfort-zone, courage, extraordinary, growing, illuminate, inspirational-life,inspirational-quotes, know-thyself, learning, life-and-living, meteor-showers, meteors, outside-my-element, self-awareness, self-discovery, self-growth, self-worth, shooting-stars, the-universe
“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”
― Jimmy Johnson
― Jimmy Johnson
tags: accomplishment, extra, extraordinary, hard-work, job, work
“I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more”
― Lewis Carroll
― Lewis Carroll
tags: commonplace, extraordinary
“Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace”
― Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings
― Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings
tags: beauty, extraordinary, ugliness
“Ordinary 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-Scott
― Cherie Carter-Scott
tags: extraordinary, impossible, ordinary, possible
“Seven years, Dawn. Working with the Slayer. Seeing my friends get more and more powerful... a witch. A demon. Hell, I could fit Oz in my shaving kit, but come a full moon, he had a wolfy mojo not to be messed with. Powerful, all of them. And I'm the guy who fixes the windows.
They'll never know how tough it is, Dawnie, to be the one who isn't Chosen, to live so near the spotlight and never step in it. But I know. I see more than anybody realizes because nobody's watching me.
I saw you last night, and I see you working here today. You're not special; you're extraordinary.”
― Joss Whedon
They'll never know how tough it is, Dawnie, to be the one who isn't Chosen, to live so near the spotlight and never step in it. But I know. I see more than anybody realizes because nobody's watching me.
I saw you last night, and I see you working here today. You're not special; you're extraordinary.”
― Joss Whedon
“You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.”
― Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows
― Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows
tags: extraordinary, life, music
“Emotion is always multiplied in the art of a person who doesn't really show much emotion. It once expanded deep within his hidden soul, and following the downplay his audience is blown away.”
― Criss Jami
― Criss Jami
tags: amazement, amazing, art, audience, awe, downplay, dull, dullness, emotion, expansion, expression,extraordinary, genius, inert, introversion, introvert, multiplication, passion, preservation, quiet, quietness,remarkable, reservation, reserved, shock, shock-and-awe, shocking, shy, shyness, soul, strange, surprises, surprising,unusual, wonder, wonderful, wondrous, wondrous-strange
“You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel."
(Something Borrowed)”
― Emily Giffin
(Something Borrowed)”
― Emily Giffin
tags: dex, extraordinary, rachel, romance
“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.”
― Peter Deunov
― Peter Deunov
“Do not ask your children
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirable,
but it is the way of foolishness.
Help them instead to find the wonder
and the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show them the joy of tasting
tomatoes, apples and pears.
Show them how to cry
when pets and people die.
Show them the infinite pleasure
in the touch of a hand.
And make the ordinary come alive for them.
The extraordinary will take care of itself.”
― William Martin, The Parent's Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for Modern Parents
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirable,
but it is the way of foolishness.
Help them instead to find the wonder
and the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show them the joy of tasting
tomatoes, apples and pears.
Show them how to cry
when pets and people die.
Show them the infinite pleasure
in the touch of a hand.
And make the ordinary come alive for them.
The extraordinary will take care of itself.”
― William Martin, The Parent's Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for Modern Parents
“Our key to greatness lies not in our ability to project ourselves to others as if we are putting ourselves onto a projector and creating an image of ourselves on a projector screen. Rather, our key to greatness lies in who we are which we can give to other people in a way that when they walk away from us, they are able to say in their hearts that they have taken away something with them quite extraordinary.”
― C. JoyBell C.
― C. JoyBell C.
“It's like I am inside this ethereal sphere wherein exists no logic, no reasoning, no typicality, no explanations, no realism, no comparisons, nothing ordinary, and no normalcy. And then if you are to understand me, you have to step into my realm and leave all of those things behind. I'm not typical. I'm not ordinary. And I'm not normal. And I never will be . So I don't see the point of waking up in the morning and wishing to be so.”
― C. JoyBell C.
― C. JoyBell C.
“There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs
tags: extraordinary, life, living, living-life
“Logan stopped and gazed skyward as the kite began to soar above them, and when he clapped his hands at Ben's obvious joy, she was strucked by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.”
― Nicholas Sparks
― Nicholas Sparks
“Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
tags: amazement, amazing, appearances, awe, being-heard, ceo, class, discern, discernment, doctor, extraordinary,greatness, hard-work, humble, humility, inspirational, judge, judgment, judgmental, king, lower-class, lowlife, lowly,middle-class, motivational, pastor, power, prejudgment, reconsideration, rethinking, ruler, shock, shock-and-awe,shocking, society, strange, surpassing, surprises, surprising, underdog, unexpected, upper-class, voice, voice-of-the-nations, wisdom, wonder, wonderful, wondrous, wondrous-strange, world
“If you want to lead an extraordinary life, find out what the ordinary do–and don't do it.”
― Tommy Newberry, Success is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices Change Your Life
― Tommy Newberry, Success is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices Change Your Life
“Embedded in the larger story of redemption is a principle we must not miss: God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others.”
― Paul David Tripp, Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change
― Paul David Tripp, Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change
tags: extraordinary, god, others, people
“Things don’t have to be extraordinary to be beautiful. Even the ordinary can be beautiful.”
― Wicker Park
― Wicker Park
tags: beautiful, extraordinary, ordinary, things
“My invitation to you is to begin living every moment as though you are miraculous and deserve to live an extraordinary life. Fake it if you must and keep faking it until it's real to you. The gift you will be giving yourself is a lifelong journey of discovery, one that is infinite and infinitely rewarding. Begin the journey. Today. This moment. Now.”
― Robert White
― Robert White
tags: extraordinary, life, rewarding
“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, Handle With Care
― Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care
“It's perfectly normal that extraordinary things happen to me. I'm an exceptional person. Oh, don't think I'm boasting. I mean to say that, unfortunately, I'm exceptional and that, unfortunately, I can't live by the rules. I must make my own.”
― Cocteau
― Cocteau
tags: extraordinary, humor, people
“Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos.”
― Criss Jami
― Criss Jami
tags: above, above-and-beyond, animal, animal-rights, animals, beyond, comprehension, cosmic, cosmos, creativity,earth, extraordinary, foolish, fools, genius, geniuses, greatness, intelligence, knowledge, labels, misunderstood,nature, originality, perception, perspective, planet, planetary, right, rights, understanding, universe, wisdom, wise,world, wrong
“Nicholas Benedict did have an exceptional gift for knowing things (more exceptional, in fact, than most adults would have thought possible), and yet not even he could know that this next chapter was to be the most unusual-and most important-of his entire childhood. Indeed, the strange days that lay ahead would change him forever, though for now they had less substance than the mist through which he ran.”
― Trenton Lee Stewart, The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict
― Trenton Lee Stewart, The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict
“Rover did not know in the least where the moon's path led to, and at present he was much too frightened and excited to ask, and anyway he was beginning to get used to extraordinary things happening to him.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Roverandom
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Roverandom
tags: adventure, extraordinary, sf
“In extraordinary times, the ordinary takes on a glow and wonder all of its own”
― Mike A. Lancaster, Human.4
― Mike A. Lancaster, Human.4
tags: extraordinary, ordinary
“The trouble in life is not that you are extraordinarily or ordinarily talented but you are read posthumously.”
― Santosh Kalwar
― Santosh Kalwar
“Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly.”
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