Small Things Quotes - Page 16

• One without health cannot achieve any small thing.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Achieve

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• The true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down on their task because it is cast in the day of small things; scornful of baseness, awake to their own duties as well as to their rights, following the higher law with reverence, and in this world doing all that in their power lies, so that when death comes they may feel that humanity is in some degree better because they lived.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Christian, Lying, Hero

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• We've got to make the small things unforgettable.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Leadership, Unforgettable

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• Our work may be important, but we don't take it too seriously. Otherwise, we get attached to one relatively small thing and ignore the rest of life.

  Bernie Glassman

  Rest Of Life, Important, May

  Source: onpoint.wbur.org

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• The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. Everybody's life really consists of small things. Greatness is a mental abstraction and a favorite fantasy of the ego. The paradox is that the foundation for greatness is the honoring of small things of the present moment instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Greatness, Ideas, Ego

  Eckhart Tolle (2009). “A New Earth: Create a Better Life”, p.187, Penguin UK

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• Small things become small folks.

  Horace

  Folks

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.368, Delphi Classics

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• I dream of big things. I work for the small things. If you're going to dream, you might as well dream big. A lot of that came from my mother. She was adamant about the work ethic---about how you can't just dream things.

  Kevin Costner

  Mother, Dream, Work Ethic

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• My deepest belief is that to live as if we're dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention and to forgive and not to sweat the small things.

  Anne Lamott

  Sweat, People, Forgiving

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.125, Anchor

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• Small things are best: Grief and unrest To rank and wealth are given; But little things On little wings Bear little souls to Heaven.

  Frederick William Faber

  Grief, Wings, Heaven

  Frederick William Faber (1857). “Poems ... Second edition”, p.198

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• The close-up has no equivalent in a narrative fashioned of words. Literature is totally lacking in any working method to enable it to isolate a single vastly enlarged detail in which one face comes forward to underline a state of mind or stress the importance of a single detail in comparison with the rest. As a narrative device, the ability to vary the distance between the camera and the object may be a small thing indeed, but it makes for a notable difference between cinema and oral or written narrative, in which the distance between language and image is always the same.

  Italo Calvino

  Distance, Stress, Differences

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• The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

  Napoleon Hill

  Strong, Sacrifice, Broken

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• It's the people without the money and the power, who desperately want to live, for those people small things aren't small at all.

  Ann Leckie

  People, Want

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• Find something that makes you happy, like looking at beautiful pictures, or, if you're able, listening to beautiful music, or sitting by the window and looking outside - small things like that can be absolutely huge.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Beautiful, Listening, Sitting

  "Feeling Myself: Kathleen Hanna Gets Back to Work". Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. June 5, 2015.

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• I'll start with small things.

  Vincent Van Gogh

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• The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were not naturally corporate people; they disliked working for others and they seemed to resent taking orders. On the whole, directors were treated absurdly well, and workers badly, and most industries were weakened by class suspicion and false economies and cynicism. But the same qualities that made English people seem stubborn and secretive made them, face to face, reliable and true to their word. I thought: The English do small things well and big things badly.

  Paul Theroux

  Order, Class, People

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain”, p.220, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. They’re right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows you to see more, enjoy more, take delight in small things; it makes life richer. You feel more alive, less cocooned.

  Jane Wilson-Howarth

  Home, Chinese, Delight

  Jane Wilson-Howarth (2012). “A Glimpse of Eternal Snows: A Journey of Love and Loss in the Himalayas”, p.370, Bradt Travel Guides

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• I took to my room and let small things evolve slowly.

  Erik Satie

  Rooms, Evolve

  "The man in a velvet suit Lucy Daniel". Telegraph Review, January 25, 2014.

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• Wimbledon is not the tournament I love. I don't like how they treat the players. There are small things that don't cost them anything and they make such a big deal out of it. If they treat us this way, well, we have to treat them the same. We want to be respected, the way we respect Wimbledon, even if it is not the best Grand Slam on earth.

  Marat Safin

  Player, Cost, Earth

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• Beware of the tyranny of making small changes to small things. Rather, make big changes to big things.

  Roger Enrico

  Creativity, Small Changes, Bigs

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• Start from the body, and then go, slowly slowly, deeper. And don't start with anything else unless you have first solved the primary. If your body is tense, don't start with the mind. Wait. Work on the body. And just small things are of immense help.

  Rajneesh

  Waiting, Relaxation, Mind

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• I don't think anyone 'finds' joy. Rather, we cultivate it by searching for the preciousness of small things, the ordinary miracles, that strengthen our hearts so we can keep them open to what is difficult: delight in taking a shower or a slow walk that has no destination, in touching something soft, in noticing the one small, black bird who sings every morning from the top of the big old pine tree ... I need to give my attention to the simple things that give me pleasure with the same fervor I have been giving it to the complex things with which I drive myself crazy.

  Dawna Markova

  Gratitude, Morning, Crazy

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• Love is only a small thing, enough for one person, and any suggestion that the heart might be larger than this is considered perverse.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Heart

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• The Warrior of the Light pays attention to small things because they can severely hamper him.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Warrior

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• Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like. Remember, it is not the size of a gift, it is its quality and the amount of mental attachment you overcome that count. So don't bankrupt yourself on a momentary positive impulse, only to regret it later. Give thought to giving. Give small things, carefully, and observe the mental processes going along with the act of releasing the little thing you liked.

  Robert Thurman

  Regret, Attachment, Practice

  Robert Thurman (2011). “The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Liberation Through Understanding in the Between”, p.53, Bantam

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• To pray is no small thing. It is nothing less than a sacred pilgrimage into the heart of the whole world.

  Wayne Muller

  Prayer, Heart, World

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