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• We are gripped by God’s will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as in great things, in saving as in pardoning. To be glad instruments of God’s love in this imperfect world is the service to which we are called.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Imperfect World, Saving, Helping

  Albert Schweitzer, Steven E. G. Melamed (2003). “The African Sermons”, p.20, Syracuse University Press

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• I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Happiness, Hurt

  "The Ocean at the End of the Lane". Book by Neil Gaiman, June 18, 2013.

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• There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

  Andre Gide

  Life, Long, Doe

  "If It Die". Book by André Gide, ch. III, 1924.

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• There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Time, Great Things, All Things

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.556, Wordsworth Editions

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• In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?"

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Time, Fate

  James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton (1904). “The poetical works”

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• You will find that [the] State [Department] is the kind of organisation which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Kindness, Government, Organization

  "High on Foggy Bottom: An Outsider's Inside View of the Government". Book by Charles Frankel, 1969.

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• Einstein's theory of relativity does a fantastic job for explaining big things. Quantum mechanics is fantastic for the other end of the spectrum - for small things.

  Brian Greene

  Jobs, Doe, Fantastic

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• Put your energies into creativity. Forget about anger as a problem, ignore it. Channelise your energy towards more creativity. Pour yourself into something that you love. Rather than making anger your problem, let creativity be your object of meditation. Shift from anger to creativity and immediately you will see a great change arising in you. And tomorrow the same things will not feel like excuses for being angry because now energy is moving, is channelised, is being sublimated, is enjoying itself, its dance. Who cares about small things?

  Rajneesh

  Moving, Anger, Creativity

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• Just when normal life felt almost possible - when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (the prismatic spray of light through an icicle; the stillness of a sunrise), some small thing would go awry and veil of optimism was torn away, the barren world revealed. They learned, somehow, to wait those times out. There was no cure, no answer, no reparation. (161)

  David Wroblewski

  Light, Order, Optimism

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• Moments like this act as magical interludes, placing our hearts at the edge of our souls: fleetingly, yet intensely, a fragment of eternity has come to enrich time...When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.

  Muriel Barbery

  Heart, Greatness, Soul

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• Still, these days when I daydream about the movie, I don't think about the big picture. It's more fun for me to think of little things that would add to the movie. I like to think the powers that be would let me amuse myself with some small things in order to shut me up while they re-write the screenplay to turn Kvothe into a lesbian, shape-changing unicorn.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

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• I don't go see big, silly movies. I like small things about regular folks, you know?

  Bobby Cannavale

  Silly, Bigs, Folks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Happiness is the result of an attitude of mind. I believe you can build it out of small things.

  Miss Read

  Happiness, Attitude, Believe

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• you never know which thing you do is going to turn out to be important. I'm sure we've all done very small things that had very great impact and very big things that didn't make any difference. So, create the means that best reflect the ends we want. Try to make each moment authentic, and you'll get to an authentic end.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mean, Impact, Differences

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• it is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum.

  Dorothea Brande

  Done, Bondage, Humdrum

  Dorothea Brande (2013). “Wake Up and Live!: A Formula for Success That Really Works!”, p.40, Penguin

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• To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .

  Elbert Hubbard

  Income, Stomach, Fixed

  Elbert Hubbard (1917). “In the Spotlight: Personal Experiences of Elbert Hubbard on the American Stage”

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• In this life you can take poverty, you can take failure, you can take the big things; it's the little griefs that destroy you inside.

  Hedda Hopper

  Grief, Littles, Poverty

  Hedda Hopper (2017). “From Under My Hat”, p.24, Graymalkin Media

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• The ocean is made of drops.

  Mother Teresa

  Ocean, Made

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• It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might have been spared in my education, for I never read.

  Hannah More

  Time, Might, Expenses

  Hannah More (1860). “Letters of Hannah More to Zachary Macaulay, containing notices of Lord Macaulay's youth: Edited and arranged by Arthur Roberts”, p.197

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• Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.

  Diane Ackerman

  Color, Feelings, Brain

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir”, p.149, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The extent to which we take everyday objects for granted is the precise extent to which they govern and inform our lives.

  Margaret Visser

  Everyday Objects, Granted, Our Lives

  Margaret Visser (2010). “Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea”, p.11, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• 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.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Together, Done, Impulse

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• Keep it, keep it!" I answered. "You are very welcome to it! It is only a couple of small things, doesn't amount to anything—about everything I own in the world.

  Knut Hamsun

  Couple, World, Welcome

  Knut Hamsun (2008). “Hunger: A Novel”, p.56, Macmillan

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• All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother Daughter, Mother And Daughter, Mom And Daughter

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Lord make me satisfied with small things. Make me content to live on the outside of life. God make me love the rind!

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Lord, Satisfied

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