Quotes on Normal

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.

You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano?

I like my friends because they make me feel normal, even though I'm not.

I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

...if you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal , then you are sick. These three categories, not being like everybody else, not being normal and being sick are in fact very different but have been reduced to the same thing

Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In the West, if you speak to yourself out loud all day long, you are considered crazy. But speaking to yourself silently - thinking incessantly - is considered perfectly normal.

… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.

I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.

It is quite normal to fear what one most desires. We desire to transcend the Story of the World that has come to enslave us, that indeed is killing the planet. We fear what the end of that story will bring: the demise of much that is familiar.Fear it or not, it is happening already.

If in so many parts of the world there are children who have nothing to eat, that's not news, it seems normal. It cannot be this way!

As long as I continue to hear 'normal' people telling me I am too childish, I know I'm doing just fine.

This is hilarious. First, people say how so many actresses in Hollywood look anorexic, and now they are criticizing me for looking normal. Body images are too often adopted by young girls and women - thanks to what they are constantly being shown as being attractive.

Whether your life is happy or not is your own choice. _x000D_ _x000D_ Many people think I can't live a normal life because _x000D_ I don't have arms or legs. _x000D_ I could choose to believe that and give up trying. _x000D_ I could stay at home and wait for others to take care of me. _x000D_ Instead, I choose to believe that I can do anything, _x000D_ and I always try to do things my own way. _x000D_ I choose to be happy. _x000D_ I am happy because I am always thankful.

Any resistance is not only normal but necessary-it is part of the creative process.

The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.

Being gay is a natural normal beautiful variation on being human. Period. End of subject. Therefore, any argument which says differently is an immoral supremacist one. Call it out as such. ... Be outraged, offended, angry and intolerant of any discussion or any one who describes you as unequal, undeserving or unnatural for being just as you are.

I happen to like the strange ones. People who look normal and leads normal lives - they're the ones you have to watch out for.

The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.

Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works so as positively to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.

Who wants to be normal when you can be unique?

The Normal is the good smile in a child’s eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults.