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• It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true--big things are often just small things that are noticed.

  Markus Zusak

  Bigs, Big Things

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.221, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Anger is active sadness; sadness is inactive anger. They are not two things. Watch your own behaviour. When do you find yourself sad? You find yourself sad only in situations where you cannot be angry. The boss in the office says something and you cannot be angry; it is uneconomical. You cannot be angry and you have to go on smiling - then you become sad. The energy has become inactive. You come home, and with your wife you find a small thing, anything irrelevant, and you become angry.

  Rajneesh

  Anger, Home, Sadness

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• We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Motivational, Basketball, Greatness

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• I no longer have time for unnecessary drama. I wasted so much time scared, self-conscious and insecure. Life is too short to stress the small things anymore.

  Daryl Hannah

  Drama, Stress, Life Is Too Short

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• Christ came to be Father's compassion to the world. Be kind in your actions. Do not think that you are the only one who can do efficient work, work worth showing. This makes you harsh in your judgment of others who may not have the same talents. Do your best and trust that others do their best. And be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

  Mother Teresa

  Father, Lying, Thinking

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• None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.

  Mother Teresa

  Teamwork, Together We Can, Great Love

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• I find that the more willing I am to be grateful for the small things in life, the bigger stuff just seems to show up from unexpected sources, and I am constantly looking forward to each day with all the surprises that keep coming my way!

  Louise Hay

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Thankful

  Louise L. Hay (2009). “Gratitude: A Way of Life”, p.12, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I would not see our candle blown out in the wind. It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed us mysteriously out of immensity. I would not have that gift expire... If I seem to be beating a dead horse again and again, I must protest: No! I am beating, again and again, living man to keep him awake and move his limbs and jump his mind... What's the use of looking at Mars through a telescope, sitting on panels, writing books, if it isn't to guarantee, not just the survival of mankind, but mankind surviving forever!

  Ray Bradbury

  Horse, Moving, Book

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• Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little".

  Dale Carnegie

  Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short, Upset

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.69, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Every small thing grows when you nurture it, Rosie. Love is just the same. But if that is making you miserable then, leave and find something else that brings you happiness you deserve to feel.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Love Is, Miserable, Rosie

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword. As a mortal, I was never a great fighter or athlete or poet. I only made wine. The people in my village laughed at me. They said I would never amount to anything. Look at me now. Sometimes small things can become very large indeed.

  Rick Riordan

  Powerful, Wine, Athlete

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.926, Penguin UK

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• The world will be solved by millions of small things.

  Pete Seeger

  Teamwork, World, Millions

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• To save the culture of your allies is a small thing. To cherish the culture of your enemy, to risk your life and the life of other men to save it, to give it all back to them as soon as the battle was won… it was unheard of, but that is exactly what Walker Hancock and the other Monuments Men intended to do.

  Robert M. Edsel

  Men, Giving, Risk

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• We walked on the beach, fed blue corn ships to the seagulls, and munched on blue jelly beans, blue saltwater taffy and all the other free samples my mom brought home from work. I guess I should explain the blue food. See, Gabe had once told my mom there was no such thing. They had this fight, which seemed like a really small thing at the time. But ever since, my mom went out of her way to eat blue. She baked blue birthday cakes. She mixed blueberry smoothies. She bought blue-corn tortilla chips and brought home blue candy from the shop.

  Rick Riordan

  Mom, Beach, Home

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• When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?

  Muriel Barbery

  Heart, Greatness, Jewels

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• There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.

  Mother Teresa

  People, Saint, Serving Others

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers”, p.43, New World Library

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• Small things done consistently, in strategic places, create major impact.

  David Allen

  Motivation, Impact, Done

  Twitter post from Aug 10, 2015

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• I do not understand modern physics at all, but my colleagues who know a lot about the physics of very small things, like the particles in atoms, or very large things, like the universe, seem to be running into one queerness after another, from puzzle to puzzle.

  Lewis Thomas

  Running, Knowledge, Science

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• For the Baul, life is not a serious thing. It is fun, it is laughter, it is joy. So you cannot find anything like the seriousness of a church-goer, or the long faces of so-called religious people in the world of the Bauls. They love laughter, they love fun. They enjoy small things with tremendous respect. Ordinarily, religions are very long-faced, very sombre, serious, because they have to be - they are against life.

  Rajneesh

  Religious, Laughter, Fun

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• The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Greatness, Ideas

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.197, Penguin

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• The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.

  Barbara Pym

  Home, Funny Things, Cooking

  Barbara Pym (1982). “Less than angels”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• It is no small thing, this, for a woman: freedom.

  Philippa Gregory

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• If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Inspiring, Nature, Simplicity

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2010). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.34, New World Library

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• Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

  Mark Twain

  Wise, Witty, Kindness

  1889 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, ch.22.

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• I am very conscious that, from the time of The God of Small Things was published 10 years ago, we are in a different world ... which needs to be written about differently, and I really very much want to do that.

  Arundhati Roy

  Years, Different, Needs

  "Arundhati Roy returns to fiction" by Michelle Pauli, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2007.

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