Ordinary Moments Quotes:

There are no ordinary moments.

- Dan Millman

topic: Life, Wisdom, Philosophy, Ordinary Moments

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

topic: Gratitude, Good Life, Grateful, Extraordinary Moments, Ordinary Moments

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

topic: Gratitude, Inspiration, Believe, Joyful Life, Joyful Moments

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

topic: Heart, Eye, Simple, Ordinary Moments, Stop Hoping

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

topic: Attitude, Taken, Character, Ordinary Moments, Moral Courage

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

topic: Jesus, People, Track, Ordinary Moments, Routine Life

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

topic: Weekend, Ordinary, Wonderful, Ordinary Days, Ordinary Moments

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

source: Source: www.spiritualityandpractice.com

topic: Moving, Technology, Reality, Ordinary Moments, Economic Order

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

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

topic: Past, Bangs, Ordinary, Ordinary Moments

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

- Colum McCann

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

topic: Ordinary, Steps, Moments, Ordinary Moments

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

topic: Goodbye, Opportunity, Extraordinary Moments, Ordinary Moments

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

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

topic: Regret, People, Missing, Ordinary Moments

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

- Chris Marker

topic: Memories, Remembrance, Ordinary, Ordinary Moments

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

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

topic: Ordinary, Firsts, Remember, Ordinary Moments

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

topic: Writing, Loss, Grace, Ordinary Moments

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

source: Source: www.biblegateway.com

topic: Powerful, Angel, Encounters, Ordinary Moments, Holy God

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

topic: Climbing, Self, Steps, Ordinary Moments, Finest Moments

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

topic: Believe, Ideas, People, Ordinary Moments

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

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

topic: Art, Ordinary, Tongue, Ordinary Moments, Very True