“Just an ordinary in a world that loves the extra ordinary.”
Variant: He was ordinary in a world that loved the extraordinary.
Source: The Last Song
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American writer and novelist 1965Related quotes
“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”
The Book of Ammon
Context: Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual. Therefore one with love, courage, and wisdom is one in a million who moves the world, as with Jesus, Buddha, and Gandhi.
(p. 47, Tao of the Rainbow).
Book Sources, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry (2014)
Source: 1910s, Prejudices, First Series (1919), Ch. 16
“Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.”
Women Saints of East and West
“Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.”
Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography
Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 3, The Sensibility of the Sixties, p. 131
“Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.”
Fear of Flying (1973)