Insignificant Things Quotes

• There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on how one looks at it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Views, Literature, World

  "Goethe's World View: Presented in His Reflections and Maxims".

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• The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Hurt, Suffering Pain

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.116, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Money, Spring, May

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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• Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.

  Charles Saatchi

  Art, What Matters, Schemes

  Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press

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• Enjoyment of life is not based on enjoyable circumstances. It is an attitude of the heart, a decision to enjoy everything because everything - even little, seemingly insignificant things - have a part in the overall "big picture" of life.

  Joyce Meyer

  Attitude, Heart, Decision

  Joyce Meyer (1996). “Enjoying where You are on the Way to where You are Going: Learning how to Live a Joyful Spirit-led Life”

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• What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life I must be quite certain that it is necessary. I must never go beyond the unavoidable, not even in apparently insignificant things. The farmer who has mowed down a thousand flowers in his meadow in order to feed his cows must be careful on his way home not to strike the head off a single flower by the side of the road in idle amusement, for he thereby infringes on the law of life without being under the pressure of necessity.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Flower, Home, Animal

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• Yeah, but you’re a god of fate. Can’t you change that? (Kat) You’re thinking like a child, Katra. Things that appear simple very seldom are. It’s like the mechanic who goes to fix the carburetor and in doing so accidentally puts a hole in the radiator and causes even more damage. Every person on this planet is connected. Sometimes those lines are easy to see, and others are more complex. You change one insignificant thing and you change the very core of humanity. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Children, Fate, Simple

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• I try to write about small insignificant things. I try to find out if it’s possible to say anything about them. And I almost always do if I sit down and write about something. There is something in that thing that I can write about. It’s very much like a rehearsal. An exercise, in a way.

  Karl Ove Knausgard

  Writing, Exercise, Say Anything

  "In Search of Karl Ove Knausgard". Interview with Jared Levy, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• I blame the newspapers because every day they call our attention to insignificant things, while three or four times in our lives,we read books that contain essential things. Once we feverishly tear the band of paper enclosing our newspapers, things should change and we should find--I do not know--the Pensées by Pascal!

  Marcel Proust

  Book, Knowledge, Tears

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• If I make a wrong decision, I worry what might have been. I stress out over very insignificant things.

  Courtney Barnett

  Stress, Worry, Decision

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Half, Hours, Half Hours

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• If he could have his way, Satan would distract us from our heritage. He would have us become involved in a million and one things in this life-probably none of which is very important in the long run-to keep us from concentrating on the things that are really important, particularly the reality that we are God's children. He would like us to forget about home and family values. He'd like to keep us so busy with comparatively insignificant things that we don't have time to make the effort to understand where we came from, whose children we are, and how glorious our ultimate homecoming can be!

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Running, Children, Home

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• I could've written songs about, for example, the Paris attacks as they happened and have the song out the day after, but doing this project and following the news made me realize how much I miss deeper nuances in the news reporting. There's already so many quick opinions and angles being thrown in your face, so I avoided writing about things like that and tried focusing on the smaller, more seemingly insignificant things. The things you would find in the back of the newspaper or the back of your mind.

  Jens Lekman

  Song, Writing, Paris

  Source: pitchfork.com

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