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• Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong.

  E. M. Forster

  Niece, Sky, Rose

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.440, Delphi Classics

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• And there's a wonderful parable in the New Testament: The sower scatters seeds. Some seeds fall in the pathway and get stamped on, and they don't grow. Some fall on the rocks, and they don't grow. But some seeds fall on fallow ground, and they grow and multiply a thousandfold. Who knows where some good little thing that you've done may bring results years later that you never dreamed of?

  Pete Seeger

  Fall, Years, Rocks

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• I feel if theres one little thing I could do, its to make people realize: We are not worthless because we inhabit a country which is seen by Western eyes as a primitive, fundamentalist country only. . .I mean, we are a rich mixture of all sorts of forces as well, and our lives are very much worth living.

  Bapsi Sidhwa

  Inspirational, Life, Country

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• When you go through enough dark places, you don't complain about little things. You don't lose your joy because you got stuck in traffic; you don't get offended because a coworker was rude to you. You've been through too much to let that sour you.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Dark, Rude

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• True greatness consists in being great in little things.

  Charles Simmons

  Greatness, Excellence, Littles

  Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.315

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• I like that feeling when you’re making art, that you’re taking the energy out of your body and putting it into a physical object. I like things that are labor-intensive : you make a little thing and another little thing and another little thing, and eventually you see a possibility.

  Kiki Smith

  Art, Feelings, Energy

  Siri Engberg, Kiki Smith, Linda Nochlin, Walker Art Center, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2005). “Kiki Smith: a gathering, 1980-2005”

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• Don't fuss about trifles. Don't permit little things-the mere termites of life-to ruin your happiness.

  Dale Carnegie

  Littles, Ruins, Permit

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.

  Tori Amos

  Want, Littles, Taste

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• Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.

  Fiona Apple

  Insecure, Littles, Sides

  "New Again: Fiona Apple". Interview with Colleen Kelsey and Tracey Pepper, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

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• Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

  Humphry Davy

  Life, Family, Smile

  Sir Humphry Davy, John Davy (1839). “The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. ...: Memoirs of the life of Sir Humphry Davy, by his brother, John Davy”, p.448

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• Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

  Georges Bernanos

  Teamwork, Peace, Flower

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• Little things affect little minds.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Sarcastic, Work, Teaching

  1845 Sybil, bk.3, ch.2.

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• I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

  Joyce Meyer

  Moon, Men, Worry

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• Every little thing counts in a crisis.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Littles, Crisis

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1964). “Glorious Thoughts of Nehru: Being a Treasury of Twelve Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thoughts of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people.

  Andy Warhol

  Happiness, Emotional, People

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there is no pay but the privilege of doing it. Remember, you don't live in a world all of your own

  Albert Schweitzer

  Attitude, Remember You, Remembers You

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• Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Emotional, Glasses, Giants

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• Take time to smell the roses. Appreciating the little things in life really can make all the difference.

  Andy Puddicombe

  Smell, Differences, Things In Life

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• In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no return. Give love, give help, give service, give any little thing you can, but keep out barter. Make no conditions and none will be imposed on you. Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving, Looks, World

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3095, Manonmani Publishers

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• When many little people in many little places do many little things, then the whole world changes.

  Michael Franti

  People, World, Littles

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• For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Together, Littles, Impressive

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• Little Things isn't about anyone in particular, it's about all girls. You're all beautiful and you need to hear it more often

  Zayn Malik

  Beautiful, Girl, Needs

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• Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leave them alone and they will soon be great.

  J. C. Ryle

  Weed, Children, Ideas

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “The Duties of Parents”, p.29, Booklassic

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• If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.

  William H. McRaven

  Motivational, Military, Littles

  "Adm. McRaven Urges Graduates to Find Courage to Change the World". Remarks by Naval Adm. William H. McRaven, ninth commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, at the University-wide Commencement at The University of Texas at Austin, news.utexas.edu. May 16, 2014.

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• We need to create a new paradigm of development and happiness that can generate a three-dimensional peace – peace with ourselves, peace with other people and peace with mother earth. Little people doing little things in little places everywhere can change the world.

  Anwar Fazal

  Mother, People, Three

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