“Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.”

“God has privileged us in Christ Jesus to live above the ordinary human plane of life. Those who want to be ordinary and live on a lower plane can do so, but as for me, I will not.”

Smith Wigglesworth (1859–1947) British evangelist

“If you want to lead an extraordinary life, find out what the ordinary do–and don't do it.”

Tommy Newberry American writer

“I think that when you live in a world with limits… when you've met everyone and seem everything you're going to see - you lose the hope that something extraordinary will happen in your life”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

“You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary”

Frederick Buechner (1926) Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian

“You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.”

Aurelius Augustinus (354–430) early Christian theologian and philosopher

“It is only through the ordinary that the extraordinary can make itself perceived.”

P. L. Travers (1899–1996) Australian-British novelist, actress and journalist

“People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.”

Daisaku Ikeda (1928) Japanese writer

“The infuriating thing about an individual way of living. People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human

“Why am I fighting to live,
If I am just living to fight
Why am I trying to see.
When there aint nothing in sight
Why am I trying to give,
When no one gives me a try
Why am I dying to live,
If I am just living to die?”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor