15 quotes
“Joy comes to us in ordinary moments. We risk missing out when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.”
— Brene Brown
“Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts.”
— Pema Chodron
“Before enlightenment chop wood carry water after enlightenment chop wood carry water”
— Zen Proverb
“Have you eaten your rice porridge then wash your bowl”
— Joshu
“Everyday mind is the way”
— Nansen
“Earth is crammed with heaven and every common bush afire with God”
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.”
“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
— Jim Rohn
“We are not called to do extraordinary things but to do ordinary things with extraordinary love.”
— Jean Vanier
“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”
— C.S. Lewis
“The banality of evil is the most terrifying aspect of our modern world”
— Hannah Arendt
“Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing but if it is genuine it is enough”
— Cheryl Strayed
“We are not called to do extraordinary things but to do ordinary things with extraordinary compassion”
“To catch a glimpse of the marvelous in the ordinary is the task of art and wonder makes it possible”
— Simone de Beauvoir
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