He was ordinary in a world that loved the extraordinary.

Be extraordinary in your excellence, if you like, but be ordinary in your display of it.

How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually. (92)

Ordinary people seek entertainment. Extraordinary people seek education and learning.

If you are intelligent, if you are alert, the ordinary becomes the extraordinary.

Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week’s end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.

as with almost all human practices, there are those who have the mysterious ability to raise the everyday and ordinary to the level of art.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life. Bring God to your ordinary life introduce God into your ordinary life. Sleep, eat, love, pray, meditate, but don’t think that you are making or doing something special — and then you will be special.

Own your extraordinariness and Your ordinariness

The most ordinary things could be made extraordinary.

Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.

Push your boundaries beyond the ordinary; be that “extra” in “extraordinary.

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.