Quotes about Normal

When he arrived he thought their flaws were normal; their disagreements ordinary. They were pleased by the accomplishments of their neighbors and their mockery of the lazy and the loose was full of laughter. Or used to be. Now, it seemed, the glacial wariness they once confined to strangers more and more was directed toward each other.

Suddenly she felt a need to urinate. You see, she cried. I need to pee. That's proof positive I'm not dead! But they only laughed again. Needing to pee is perfectly normal! they said. You'll go on feeling that kind of thing for a long time yet. Like a person who has an arm cut off and keeps feeling it's there. We may not have a drop of pee left in us, but we keep needing to pee.

Creativity is normal for any believer who is not influenced by anxiety.

Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.

There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles.

What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.

In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.

And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.

The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, (P. 1)

Now is the time to start a normal christian life!

In the 1960s, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal.

The fear of man is the sinful exaggeration of a normal experience.