Appreciating the Mundane Quotes

If I dismiss the ordinary—waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen - I may just miss my life.

If you don’t see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, you’re not going to resonate very much.

Appreciate everything, even the ordinary... Especially the ordinary.

Let's not forget how beautiful simply washing dishes can be.

I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere, at the most commonplace thing, scratch around in it long enough, pry and dig away long enough, and lo!, soon he will hit upon the marvelous.

I'm really interested in the extraordinary found in the normal. Hopefully, my books don't take you to an entirely different place but make you look at things around you.

Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary.

My everyday life in which I do exactly the same things as everyone else should not inspire people, and yet I am constantly congratulated by strangers for simply existing.

How could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized this was the whole point.

I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys, because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.

Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world.

Mud, rubbish and dirt are man's companions all his life; shouldn't they be precious to him, and isn't one doing man's service to remind him of their beauty?

Sometimes the most ordinary things are the ones we learn to miss the most.

I love to write down things I notice about people or things I've overheard people saying that are interesting. I love people-watching, and I love taking the time to notice the small things.

Joy comes to us in moments--ordina ry moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.