extraordinary

Grief leads you to believe that life will never be ordinary again, and it never really will be for it is made extraordinary as it is touched and transformed by our greatest loves and deepest losses.

When we set about accounting for a Napoleon or a Shakespeare or a Raphael or a Wagner or an Edison or other extraordinary person, we understand that the measure of his talent will not explain the whole result, nor even the largest part of it; no, it is the atmosphere in which the talent was cradled that explains; it is the training it received while it grew, the nurture it got from reading, study, example, the encouragement it gathered from self-recognition and recognition from the outside at each stage of its development: when we know all these details, then we know why the man was ready when his opportunity came.

We have one precious life: do something extraordinary today, even if it's tiny. A pebble starts the avalanche.

When the time comes for you to leave this earth, if it doesn__ become a lesser place with your absence, then you have wasted your life.

...today, I__ writing about the extraordinary; those __oments_ in life that reach us, and change us. Those moments take place all the time, really _ it__ just that we__e taught not to notice. We__e taught that whims are for the foolish; that instinct and passion are more akin to fairy tales than reality; that they won__ get us very far, and everyone would laugh at us if they knew what we really held close to our hearts.It__ a lie we allow ourselves, and it__ understandable.But it__ simply not true.

None of us are ordinary _ we just settle into ordinary lives.

There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)

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.

Ordinary men earns responsibility towards their family, extraordinary men earns duty towards their nation.

Everyday can be extraordinaryAnd ripe,Like a flower burst,If the will is there.

It is how we nurture the good and deal with the bad that ultimately shapes our destiny.

Before I can become an expert on anything, I must first become an expert on me.

Even the smallest changes in our daily routine can create incredible ripple effects that expand our vision of what is possible.

I will not allow my mistakes of the past compromise my hope for the future.

Usually the opposite of what we fear is our greatest fear.

No matter how "normal" people look, living "ordinary" lives, everyone has a story to tell. And may be, just like you, everyone else is a misfit too.

When the reality looks extraordinarily unreal, you must know that you are in an extraordinarily beautiful place!

Falling in love is easy. Falling in love with the same person repeatedly is extraordinary.