Thus, on this World Refugee Day, let us take time to recognize and draw inspiration from these ordinary people who have shown such extraordinary courage - the world's millions of refugees and displaced.
A related recurring theme is the exploration of how we take for granted the things in our immediate environment that are common and ordinary. Existential blindness, of sorts.
Don't underestimate what God can do with ordinary people.
If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise.
You know what, the jacket’s like the car. ” "“Is this a riddle?” " , "“No,” Peabody said as Eve swiped the master. ","“It’s an", "ordinary thing—well, special, but a jacket, right? And the car, it’s ordinary, it even looks it. But both of them have the special inside. Cop special especially, you know? He so gets you. That’s even better than a just-because present. ”", "“You’re right. He does. And it is. ” Inside, Eve paused another moment. “He’s worried about me. ”", [J. D. Robb, Celebrity In Death]
How can you do anything extraordinary by doing things the ordinary way?
I could not write about "ordinary people" because I am not in the least interested in them.
Remember, he is not, like you, a pure spirit. Never having been a human (Oh that abominable advantage of the Enemy's) you don't realize how enslaved they are to the pressure of the ordinary.
If you listen to the talk shows, which are rabid right-wing, and very interesting, an important fact about the United States, they reach a huge audience. And they're very uniform. So right wing, I don't think you can even find an analog in your, but they reach a mass audience, and their view is that the corporations are liberal. Their appeal to the population is, "the country is run by liberals, they own the corporations, they run the government, they own the media, and they don't care about us ordinary people. "
Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!
The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy may try to negate body & flee earth with its constant heartbeat of death, but Goddess forces us back to embrace them, to take our human life in our arms & clasp it for the divine life it is - the nice, sanitary, harmonious moment as well as the painful, dark, splintered ones.
Ordinary parties, he thought, were subtle games of sexual and social badminton.
but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.
An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
Ordinary people can do extraordinary things.
I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray. . . I am myself the matter of my book.
Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through, and see those whom one lives come through.
While it is possible for intelligence to increase the range of benevolent impulse, and thus prompt a human being to consider the needs and rights of other than those to whom he is bound by organic and physical relationship, there are definite limits in the capacity of ordinary mortals which makes it impossible for them to grant to others what they claim for themselves.
It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.
When we look in the mirror, the one thing we don't want to see is an ordinary human being.