Small Things Quotes - Page 15

• God will always do great things with people who are willing to be faithful in the small things.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  People, Faithful, Gods Will

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Oct 03, 2015

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• Every small wrong, every minor act of cruelty, every act of petty bullying was symbolic of a greater wrong. And if we ignored these small things, then did it not blunt our outrage over the larger wrongs?

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Bullying, Ignored, Blunt

  Alexander McCall Smith (2010). “The Unbearable Lightness of Scones”, p.202, Anchor

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• The work saved me. I clung to it like flotsam in a boiling sea. It was the only solitary sport that I ever played, or was any good at. It felt natural to sit at my computer and type and type some more. For entire minutes, while writing, I could forget the godawful thing that had happened. I could forget that nothing really mattered anymore. Perhaps, if I set my sights low, I could care again about some small thing. I would type a word. One word. Then another. I started to care about the words, then entire sentences.

  Rheta Grimsley Johnson

  Sports, Writing, Sea

  Rheta Grimsley Johnson (2010). “Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming: A Memoir”, p.190, NewSouth Books

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• And there are also languages that divide nouns into much more specific genders. The African language Supyire from Mali has five genders: humans, big things, small things, collectives, and liquids. Bantu languages such as Swahili have up to ten genders, and the Australian language Ngan’gityemerri is said to have fifteen different genders, which include, among others, masculine human, feminine human, canines, non-canine animals, vegetables, drinks, and two different genders for spears (depending on size and material).

  Guy Deutscher

  Animal, Vegetables, Two

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• Sometimes small things can become very large, indeed.

  Rick Riordan

  Sometimes, Dionysus

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth”, p.248, Penguin UK

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• I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even though one sometimes feels a kind of decay, though things go differently from the expected, it is necessary to take heart again and new courage. For the great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Wall, Believe, Heart

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• When a man looks at the stars, he grows calm and forgets small things. They answer his questions and show him that his earth is only one of the million worlds. Hold your soul still and look upward often, and you will understand their speech. Never forget the stars.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Stars, Men, Soul

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2014). “The Land of the Blue Flower”, p.10, The Floating Press

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• my mother was taught the ch'an concept of happiness, which was to find satisfaction in small things. i was taught to appreciate the fresh air in the morning, the colour of leaves turning red in autumn and the water's smoothness when i soaked my hands in the basin.

  Anchee Min

  Mother, Morning, Autumn

  Anchee Min (2005). “Empress Orchid”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The generality of men are so bound within the sphere of their circumstances that they have not even the courage to get out of them through their ideas, and if we see a few whom, in a way, speculation over great things makes incapable of mean ones, we find still more with whom the practice of small things takes away the feeling for great ones.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Mean, Men, Practice

  "Reflections and Maxims". Book by Luc de Clapiers, 1746.

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• Great men are sometimes so even in small things.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Sometimes, Great Men

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• The whole of the life -- even the hard -- is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the whole. These are new language lessons, and I live them out. There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.

  Ann Voskamp

  Thanksgiving, Missing, Add

  FaceBook post by Ann Voskamp from Feb 28, 2014

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• He's a man...and that's no small thing to be.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Men

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• Can we not will ourselves to achieve the impossible? Can we not use the power of our life force to change something: one small thing, one insignificant moment, one breath, one gesture? Is there nothing we can do to change what is around us?

  Garth Stein

  Use, Gestures, Impossible

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• One Christmas at the very beginning of your twenties when your mother gives you a warm coat that she saved for months to buy, don’t look at her skeptically after she tells you she thought the coat was perfect for you. Don’t hold it up and say it’s longer than you like your coats to be and too puffy and possibly even too warm. Your mother will be dead by spring. That coat will be the last gift she gave you. You will regret the small thing you didn’t say for the rest of your life. Say thank you.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Mother, Regret, Spring

  "Dear Sugar, The Rumpus advice Column #64: Tiny beautiful things". therumpus.net. February 10, 2011.

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• Small things such as this have saved me: how much I love my mother — even after all these years. How powerfully I carry her within me. My grief is tremendous but my love is bigger. So is yours. You are not grieving your son’s death because his death was ugly and unfair. You’re grieving it because you loved him truly. The beauty in that is greater than the bitterness of his death.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Mother, Grief, Son

  "DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column №78: The Obliterated Place". therumpus.net. July 1, 2011.

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• Though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements (and do not and must not discount them now), those of us who prevail today will have done no small thing. The special spirits who have been reserved to live in this time of challenges and who overcome will one day be praised for their stamina by those who pulled handcarts.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Spiritual, Achievement, Challenges

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• You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things. Brave undisciplined men have no chance against the discipline and valour of other men. Have you seen a few policemen handle a crowd?

  George S. Patton

  Men, Discipline, Brave

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• It's about glowing lights and small things that are big.

  Markus Zusak

  Light, Glowing, Bigs

  "The Messenger". Book by Markus Zusak, January 10, 2002.

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• I had, over the years, collected things, small things, as people do, and I had put them all together and showed them in what became a building in the form of the Geometric Mouse.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Years, People, Together

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I try to look after the really small things and the really big things, and delegate the stuff in between.

  Graydon Carter

  Trying, Looks, Stuff

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• One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.

  Sophocles

  Men, Opposites, Cities

  Creon speaking. Antigone, 666-7 (translated by H Lloyd-Jones, 1994).

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• It's more important to do big things well than to do small things perfectly.

  Ray Dalio

  Important, Bigs, Wells

  Ray Dalio (2017). “Principles: Life and Work”, p.380, Simon and Schuster

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• Fidelity is simply daring to be true in small things as well as great.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Fidelity, Daring, Being True

  Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Counsels by the Way”, p.87, Wildside Press LLC

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• It's human nature and one day maybe 20 years from now some young kid will come up and people will tell him "my God, you are like a young Michael Bublé. It happened to Harry Connick Jr with the Sinatra thing and now people are saying to me that I am the new Harry Connick Jr. It is a natural thing. I remember hearing interviews with Harry Connick saying "I am not Sinatra, leave me alone, I am different". It's a small thing to deal with.

  Michael Buble

  Kids, Years, People

  Interview with Edina Patsy, www.noise11.com. April 25, 2016.

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• Another way to be awakened by the beauty and complexity of the word is to get a dog. Small Things like a plant that I had passed a thousand time and never given a second thought to. But the dog is curious. And the dog stops and wants to smell this and smell that. And the dog makes you look and focus and take the time.

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Smell, Focus

  "The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

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