Small Life Quotes

• Let others lead small lives, but not you

  Jim Rohn

  Purpose, Mediocrity, Real Estate Motivational

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• How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Dec 25, 2011

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  Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 30, 2016

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• So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?

  Nora Ephron

  Book, Way, Mail

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Jan 02, 2012

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• Live your life to the fullest.

  Shakira

  Life, Birthday, Beauty

  "I Know What I Stand For". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. November 29, 2009.

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• Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. Life's too short to think small.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Life, Successful

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• I don't feel like I can change the world. I don't even try. I only want to change this small life that I see standing in front of me, which is suffering.

  Somaly Mam

  Suffering, Trying, World

  Somaly Mam (2008). “The Road of Lost Innocence: As a girl she was sold into sexual slavery, but now she rescues others. The story of a Cambodian heroine.”, p.128, Spiegel & Grau

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• War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.

  Henry Rollins

  War, Life Is, Very Sad

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• I always tell kids that, you know, if my small life represents anything is that if you work hard, you study hard, and you never give up on your dreams and listen to people that care about, you can live those dreams. And for me to be up on the platform standing with my right hand in the air in the presence of my family and our new president, it just tells me this is a great country.

  Mike Pence

  Dream, Country, Giving Up

  Source: www.therepublic.com

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• I think tension between the intimate and the vast is at the heart of every poem by any poet, though of course the terms with which it is explored vary. Perhaps it is something we seek out in order to affirm that our small lives are tethered to something large and ongoing.

  Tracy K. Smith

  Heart, Thinking, Order

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Deal with difficult tasks while they are easy. Act on large issues while they are small.

  Laozi

  Life, Issues, Tasks

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• The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Strong, History

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.185

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• This grandson of an Irish immigrant, after whom I was named, Richard Michael Cawley is my grandfather. I was right that - and I always tell kids that, you know, if my small life represents anything is that if you work hard, you study hard, and you never give up on your dreams and listen to people that care about, you can live those dreams. And for me to be up on the platform standing with my right hand in the air in the presence of my family and our new president [Donald Trump], it just tells me this is a great country. My grandfather was right.

  Mike Pence

  Dream, Country, Giving Up

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life - well, valuable, but small - and sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I haven't been brave? So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? I don't really want an answer. I just want to send this cosmic question out into the void. So good night, dear void. - You've Got Mail

  Nora Ephron

  Good Night, Book, Brave

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Jul 05, 2013

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• Judaism calls for us to honor the rhythm of human life, the demands of the human community around us, the call of the divine order as the filter and scale for the decisions that drive our own small lives. We do not rule the universe, Judaism reminds us. God does. We are not its standard or its norms. We are only its keepers, its agents, its stewards. To do right by the universe at large is the measure of a happiness framed with the entire cosmos in mind but lived in microcosms across time.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Divine Order, Community, Decision

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• Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, let them complain over what might have been, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, let them be discouraged, let them be revengeful and vindictive, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, let them become materialistic and empty, but not you. Let others become ungrateful and stop praying, but not you! Let others give up, but not you! For you know in whom you believe and you know that He is always able. Now, that's you!

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Hurt, Giving Up

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• There is a perverse comfort zone to living a small life. For women, that zone has to do with the fact that we're less likely to be challenged, we're less likely to be criticized, we're less likely to be called angry or strident, if we simply go along and acquiesce to the prevailing patterns of thought and behavior.

  Marianne Williamson

  Patterns, Facts, Comfort

  "Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 09, 2012.

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• I now understand the need for faith - pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith - as a small life preserver in the wild and endless sea of a universe ruled by unfeeling laws and totally indifferent to the small, reasoning beings that inhabit it.

  Dan Simmons

  Faith, Sea, Law

  "Hyperion". Book by Dan Simmons, 1989.

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• Our debt was too great and the words thank you too small.

  Ransom Riggs

  Life, Debt

  Ransom Riggs (2014). “Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children”, p.34, Quirk Books

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• How small life is here and how big nothingness. The sky, tired of light, has given everything to the snow. The two trees bow their heads to each other. Clouds cross the world’s silence in a circle dance

  Robert Walser

  Tired, Clouds, Light

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• I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.

  Franz Kafka

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• Turn off any self-talk that tells you that you are destined to live a small life. You're not.

  Loral Langemeier

  Self, Turns, Turn Off

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• If you only take small risks, you are only entitled to a small life.

  Robin Sharma

  Risk, Management, Entitled

  Twitter post from Mar 30, 2014

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• Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.

  Kate Chopin

  Children, Inward, Awakening

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.35

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