Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity.
I'm just myself, man. I don't really do anything crazy.
I'm not a legend or a hero, I don't slay dragons, I don't do any of the things that a real hero can. But I can make things better, one day at a time, for most of the kingdom.
I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.
Sometimes, homely things are done for the best reasons in the world and thus achieve a beauty of their own.
A single, ordinary person still can make a difference - and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day.
If we do the ordinary, God will add an extra to it.
I don't want to be considered a hero.... Imagine young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was just an ordinary housewife and secretary.
Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.
And, indeed, what little of beauty and peace is to be found in the societies of men is owing to the daily performance of small duties, not to big doings and fine talk.
I hope we see more stories where the heroes are real heroes, real people that don't need weapons or super powers to change people's lives.
There is a kind of virtue that lies not in extraordinary actions, not in saving poor orphans from burning buildings, but in steadfastly working for a world where orphans are not poor and buildings comply with decent fire codes.
...and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things.
It's not like it's hard to be decent and respectful and well-behaved. I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school.
I'm not interested in superheroes. What about normal people doing extraordinary things?
We want the big stories, of course, of the great men, but there's as much drama and interest and lessons to be learned in actions that people like us take on a daily basis.
It's just that you're about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to change a little. Things may look different to you than they did before. But don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality.
Don't have to do anything extra, don't have to put any S's on our chests, capes on our backs. We just have to do our job and do our job well.
The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.
I'm always interested in linking dance to mundane behavior that everyone can relate to.
We're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going.
Some people are heroes. And some people jot down notes.
Anytime you do something out of the ordinary, there will be skeptics. Everyone wants a reason why. That's fine. What's happened with me is just an accumulation of a lot of things.
The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
