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• I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
  If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.

  Jackie Chan

  Thinking, Trying, Doe

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• Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day.

  Ray Lewis

  Inspirational, Sports, Workout

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• In such a fast-paced world, gathering people around a table to share a meal allows everything to slow down. I would ask people to sit at least once a week around a table and just enjoy each other's company. Give them the time to talk, laugh, and fill their bellies. It seems like a small thing, but it can bring so much joy to so many people.

  Zac Posen

  People, Giving, Laughing

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• I live in a space of thankfulness- And I have been rewarded a million times over for it. I started out giving thanks for the small things, and more thankful I become, the more my bounty increased, that's because what you focus on expands and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Space, Giving, Focus

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• The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Arise, Honored

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

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• The older I get, the more I'm conscious of ways very small things can make a change in the world. Tiny little things, but the world is made up of tiny matters, isn't it?

  Sandra Cisneros

  World, Littles, Matter

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• It was a small thing, but it was a thing, and things have a way of either dying or growing, and it wasn’t dying.

  Miranda July

  Dying, Growing, Way

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• Small things were important. Secods were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top of one another, they became a man's life.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Men, Important, Enough

  Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Towers of Midnight”, p.679, Macmillan

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• Great things are wrought through simple and small things. Like the small flecks of gold that accumulate over time into a large treasure, our small and simple acts of kindness and service will accumulate into a life filled with love for Heavenly Father, devotion to the work of the Lord Jesus Christ, and a sense of peace and joy each time we reach out to one another.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Jesus, Kindness, Father

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• When something feels really big, too big to handle, just go very small. Just go real small, just look at the person next to you and look in their eyes and meet the person next to you, find out their name, change one person's life and make one call, write one letter, give one dollar. Whatever small thing feels like what you can do - it changes the course of the ship and that is all it is.

  Amy Poehler

  Real, Eye, Writing

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• If you do enough small things right, big things can happen

  John Wooden

  Enough, Bigs, Happens

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• You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but in a business of bean counters, he still likes to laugh at small things and creates a show around it.

  Colin Quinn

  Funny, Laughing, Likes

  "Interview: Colin Quinn picture". www.askmen.com.

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• A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Integrity, Sensitive, Clean

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• Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Simple, World, Common

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.89, Stanford University Press

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• Doing small things with love is the atom of bravery.

  Mark Nepo

  Love Is, Bravery, Atoms

  Mark Nepo (2015). “The Endless Practice: Becoming Who You Were Born to Be”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• The habit of attending to small things and of appreciating small courtesies is one of the important marks of a good person.

  Nelson Mandela

  Appreciate, Important, Good Person

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.176, Pan Macmillan

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• I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

  David Byrne

  Song, Writing, Animal

  "Stop Making Sense". Documentary, Music, 1984.

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• This part of optics, when well understood, shows us how we may make things a very long distance off appear as if placed very close, and large near things appear very small, and how we may make small things placed at a distance appear any size we want, so that it may be possible for us to read the smallest letters at incredible distances, or to count sand, or seed, or any sort or minute objects.

  Robert Grosseteste

  Distance, Long, Letters

  "De iride ('On the rainbow')". Treatise by Robert Grosseteste,

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• Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things, and never the other way around.

  Jerry Lee Lewis

  Inspirational, Way, Faithfulness

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• He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Luxury, Matter, Deny

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.227, Courier Corporation

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• There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines.

  Ronald Steel

  Relationship, Sandwiches, Enough

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• One thing will always secure heaven for us-the acts of charity and kindness with which we have filled our lives. We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

  Mother Teresa

  Kindness, Great Love, Heaven

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• Character demonstrates itself in trifles.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Character, Trifles

  Louise Imogen Guiney (1885). “Goose-quill Papers”

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• We often think that tragedies happen because of great earthquakes in people's lives. I think they sometimes occur because of small things that become obsessive to a particular person.

  Robert Cormier

  Thinking, Earthquakes, People

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Take the time and do some small thing that will be noticed and remembered. Choose your objects carefully, and buy only what you love.

  Charlotte Moss

  Design, Remembered, Objects

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