Best 917 quotes in «normal quotes» category

Without parental guidance telling you there's another way to live it can be tough but my kids have an advantage over my life. I can tell them I know what it's like and that they don't ever want to go to the places I've been, whereas when I grew up, it was so accepted and normal that if you didn't do it, you were considered weird.

Working with big actors and realising that they were just normal people who've got an incredible talent was just a great experience.

Worldliness is whatever makes sin look normal and righteousness look strange.

Yeah, I've always been different. I tried being normal once. It was the worst five minutes of my life.

Yes, I'm very normal, everything is okay, I won't become a psychiatric case.

You approach the Mullahs as if they are normal people. They are not. You see them in your own image; you should not.

You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.

You can't be normal and expect abnormal returns.

You can't live in your own secluded world. If you're not on the Tube, on the bus doing normal things, how can you relate to people?

You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.

You can't make decisions if there are no charges or issues to deal with. So it's quite normal to wait until there is some reason to react.

You did not come here to be normal, you came here to be you.

You feel it in there, pacing your heart sometimes, and it has what's called a defibrillator. Should I suffer that arhythmia, it's generally sudden death. And the paddles that are internal shock you back and restore your rhythm to its normal and natural state.

You don't buy evil characters lattes. That's not normal behavior.

You have sexual tendencies that are not normal, and you should be ashamed of them.

You should prepare when you go to a public event to be public. That's when I will sign autographs. But not when you're going about your normal business.

You have to understand that once an indictment has been signed, all countries that are signature to the U.N. charter will hand a person straight over. You dont have to go through the normal extradition process.

Your temperature's normal, though I'd say it's the only thing about you that is.

You have to figure that there is something seriously wrong with somebody who wants to enter a profession that deals with whether people are screwing enough. Dealing with spirits, spooks, and demons almost seemed normal.

You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no?

You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'

Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.

Zen is not, in my view, philosophy or mysticism. It is simply a practice of readjustment of nervous activity. That is, it restores the distorted nervous system to its normal functioning.

You would never understand, Kim. You think I'm normal; you wish I was.

Abajo hay miedo, sufrimiento y muerte. Hay guerra. Y todo parece ser tan normal que podríamos olvidarlo. Así es nuestro mundo. Todo parece ser normal, a pesar de que se están cometiendo crímenes todos los días, en grande o pequeña escala, junto a nosotros, en medio de nosotros o por medio de nosotros.

All that is called sadistic is not so. It is called sadistic in comparison to what is regarded as normal which has yet not been defined correctly.

A little pain now and then is normal; The wounds will heal, and then we'll be okay. Life goes on, but not forever, So why should we?

A ‘normal person’ is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being.

And suddenly he thought, I'm the abnormal one now. Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.

As an undergraduate student in psychology, I was taught that multiple personalities were a very rare and bizarre disorder. That is all that I was taught on ... It soon became apparent that what I had been taught was simply not true. Not only was I meeting people with multiplicity; these individuals entering my life were normal human beings with much to offer. They were simply people who had endured more than their share of pain in this life and were struggling to make sense of it.

A perfectly normal person is rare in our civilization.

As a therapist, I have many avenues in which to learn about DID, but I hear exactly the opposite from clients and others who are struggling to understand their own existence. When I talk to them about the need to let supportive people into their lives, I always get a variation of the same answer. "It is not safe. They won't understand." My goal here is to provide a small piece of that gigantic puzzle of understanding. If this book helps someone with DID start a conversation with a supportive friend or family member, understanding will be increased.

As I've gotten older, I have taught myself to act "normal." I can do it well enough to fool the average person for a whole evening, maybe longer. But it all falls apart if I hear something that elicits a strong emotional reaction from me that is different from what people expect. In an instant, in their eyes, I turn into the sociopathic killer I was believed to be forty years ago.

Being generous often consists of simply extending a hand. That's hard to do if you are grasping tightly to your righteousness, your belief system, your superiority, your assumptions about others, your definition of normal.

Being normal is the reality and being real is the expectation

Because I’m not normal,” I said. “You say that as if it’s a bad thing, Percy. But you don’t realize how important you are.

Being normal isn't that miserable." "Try it for a thousand years in a row, and you'll be grateful for a little zaniness.

Believe me, I’d like nothing more than to tell you things will be back to normal soon. The sad fact is, I don’t think things will ever go back to how they were, at least, not for a long time.

But are we not at the point where we can no longer make the distinction between normal and neurotic? Do we not all have these conflicts, in greater or lesser degree? And do not all conflicts move into contradiction at some point? When all is said and done, all anxiety arises from conflicts, with its origin in the conflict between being and nonbeing, between one's existence and that which threatens it. All of us, no matter how 'neurotic' or 'normal,' experience the gap between our expectations and reality. This distinction becomes less important, and I believe we must look at all anxiety, preferably without special labels, as part of the human condition.

Better a little with God than a whole lot without Him. Better to have fewer houses, cars, appliances, clothes, toys, and bills than to have the whole world and lose your soul. Better something paid for that's used and enjoyed and shared and worn out than something nice and shiny and new that won't be paid for until 2019 and that you're too stressed to enjoy. Better a little with the fear of the Lord than more of what everyone else has. Better than normal, instead of normal is best.

But is being normal, being ordinary, really such a bad thing? Is it something inferior? Or, in truth, isn't everybody normal?

But the most important thing to know about being an introvert is that there’s nothing wrong with you. You’re not broken because you’re quiet. It’s okay to stay home on a Friday night instead of going to a party. Being an introvert is a perfectly normal 'thing' to be.

Childbirth is normal until proven otherwise.

Bye bye binary. For gender, for sexuality, for everything. ... Lots of people can like lots of people. And could everyone please get over it and update their idea of normal.

But there is one part of this that hurts. The carefree, normal part. The part of me that was lost when we first moved and that I'll never get back.

By choosing to suppress your feelings you are creating depression for yourself. Some people definition of being normal is doing what they do. Don’t let that fool you , but everyday and anytime choose to be yourself.

Deviation' or whatever you want to call it? That's just another expression of it. You call it freakish. I call it incredible.

Deviant' is the weapon of the normative to discredit and demonize the Other.

Do you really think this will be over someday and things will go back to normal?

Don’t lose yourself in the fog of normality.