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1 " Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny. "
― C.S. Lewis
2 " An expert is an ordinary person who consistently sought knowledge in a specific field and applied it. "
― Gift Gugu Mona
3 " You are an ordinary person till the day you realise that you have the power to change the world! "
― Mehmet Murat ildan
4 " True Leaders take an Ordinary Person and turn them into an Extraordinary Performer. "
― Farshad Asl
5 " Doing anything worthwhile will present challenges, but everyone who achieves their goal is an ordinary person who becomes extraordinary. "
― Joanne Van Leerdam
6 " Give a truly good person power, and they’re still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they’re still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that isn’t evil, or good, but just ordinary. You don’t always know what an ordinary person is like on the inside. "
― Laurell K. Hamilton , Incubus Dreams (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #12)
7 " The knowledge of the Spirit is the true secret of creativity, leadership and happiness. It is spiritual intelligence that makes an ordinary person a genius. When a genius loses his spiritual intelligence, he becomes quite ordinary. "
― Awdhesh Singh , Practising Spiritual Intelligence: For Innovation, Leadership and Happiness
8 " In meditation which is a continuous flow of staying in the state at all times and in every circumstance there is neither suppression nor production of dwelling and proliferation; if there is dwelling, that is the dharmakaya’s own face and if there is proliferation, that is preserved as the self-liveliness of wisdom, so,“Then, whether there is proliferation or dwelling,”Whatever comes from mind’s liveliness as discursive thoughts, be it the truth of the source—afflictions of anger, attachment, and so on—or the truth of unsatisfactoriness—the flavours of experience which are the feelings of happiness, sadness, and so on—if the nature of the discursive thoughts is known as dharmata, they become the shifting events of the dharmakaya, so,“Anger, attachment, happiness, or sadness,”That does not finish it though; generally speaking if they are met with through the view but not finished with by bringing them to the state with meditation, they fall into ordinary wandering in confusion and if that happens, you are bound into cyclic existence by the discursive thoughts of your own mindstream and, dharma and your own mindstream having remained separate, you become an ordinary person who has nothing special about them. Not to be separated from a great non-meditated self-resting is what is needed . . .Additionally, whatever discursive thought or affliction arises, it is not something apart from dharmakaya wisdom, rather, the nature of those discursive thoughts is actual dharmakaya, the ground’s luminosity. If that, which is called ‘the mother luminosity resident in the ground’, is recognized, there is self-recognition of the view of self-knowing luminosity previously introduced by the guru and that is called ‘the luminosity of the practice path’. Abiding in one’s own face of the two luminosities of ground and path become inseparable is called ‘themeeting of mother and son luminosities’ so, “The previously-known mother luminosity joins with the son. "
― , The Feature of the Expert, Glorious King: “Three Lines That Hit the Key Points.” Root text and commentary by Patrul Rinpoche
9 " It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, then it should have been someone else, someone dark, mysterious and profoundly clever, not an ordinary person who was impatient for no reason and cross when one was late for lunch. "
― Daphne du Maurier , Don't Look Now and Other Stories
10 " Every place of arrival should have a booth set up and manned by an ordinary person whose task it is to greet strangers and give them a little trophy of local space-time stuff - tell them of his difficulties in high school and put a pinch of soil in their pockets - in order to insure that the stranger shall not become an Anyone. "
― Walker Percy , The Moviegoer
11 " When a desire is deep, it reaches the subconscious mind and calls for cultivation of qualities that will help fulfill desires, and this is what transforms an ordinary person into a great leader. "
― Awdhesh Singh , The Secret Red Book of Leadership
12 " Be an ordinary person with extraordinary heart "
13 " Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny. "
― Christopher Markus
14 " Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can follow. "
― William Zinsser
15 " I wonder if only artists can feel peace like this—such a gentle, inconspicuous peace that an ordinary person might not even notice. "
― Tessa Emily Hall , Purple Moon
16 " I am an ordinary person but carried to extremes. "
17 " I hope that as the Senate and American people learn more about me, they will see that I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. "