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• Risk is more than is required. Learn more than is normal. Be strong. Show courage. Breathe. Excel. Love. Lead. Speak your truth. Live your values. Laugh. Cry. Innovate. Simplify. Adore mastery. Release mediocrity. Aim for genius. Stay humble. Be kinder than expected. Deliver more than is needed. Exude passion. Shatter your limits. Transcend your fears. Inspire others by your bigness. Dream big but start small. Act now. Don't stop. Change the world.

  Robin Sharma

  Dream, Strong, Passion

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• The holiday season promotes a heightened sense of community. It draws our chins up and helps us look above and over the limiting fence of our own events, activities and preoccupations. The opportunity for a heroic gesture can tap you quietly on the shoulder in the midst of a holiday bustle. If you are attentive, you will notice the gentle touch and will be able to respond. Remember... There are no small acts of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Kindness, Holiday, Opportunity

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• Our small acts of faith and service are how most of us can continue in God and eventually bring eternal light and glory to our family, our friends, and our associates.

  Neill F. Marriott

  Light, Glory, Our Family

  "Mormon Feminists Surprised By New Wording Referring To Women As ‘Blessed Disciples Of Jesus’" by Peggy Fletcher Stack, September 29, 2014.

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• Dating is about grand romantic gestures that mean little over the long term. Marriage is about small acts of kindness that bond you over a lifetime.

  Lori Gottlieb

  Kindness, Mean, Dating

  Lori Gottlieb (2010). “Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough”, p.166, Penguin

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• Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay small acts of kindness and love.

  Peter Jackson

  Kindness, Believe, Evil

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• That is what thrills me, personally. Small acts of kindness; thoughtful, large acts of kindness. I feel like we're in a bit of a precipice, and I think that any beautiful energy on the kindness continuum will just help us fall into a lovelier place.

  Bellamy Young

  Beautiful, Kindness, Fall

  "Bellamy Young, ‘Scandal’ Star, Opens Up About How She Keeps Her Center In ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2013.

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• Summoning up the courage to take action is always the same regardless of how seemingly big or small the challenge. What may look like a small act of courage is courage nonetheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward.

  Nichiren

  Challenges, Important, Looks

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• It seems to me it would do us all good to act from our heart more often. We’ll be surprised how small acts of attention and kindness can release the energy, enthusiasm, and imagination bottled up in our overstressed minds and bodies.

  Tim Ryan

  Kindness, Heart, Imagination

  Tim Ryan (2012). “A Mindful Nation: How a Simple Practice Can Help Us Reduce Stress, Improve Performance, and Recapture the American Spirit”, p.31, Hay House, Inc

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• A look filled with understanding, an accepting smile, a loving word, a meal shared in warmth and awareness are the things which create happiness in the present moment. By nourishing awareness in the present moment, you can avoid causing suffering to yourself and those around you. The way you look at others, your smile, and your small acts of caring can create happiness. True happiness does not depend on wealth or fame.

  Nhat Hanh

  Caring, Understanding, Suffering

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2010). “Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha”, p.299, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• healthy, adj. There are times when I'm alone that I think, This is it. This is actually the natural state. All I need are my thoughts and my small acts of creation and my ability to go or do whatever I want to go or do. I am myself, and that is the point. Pairing is a social construction. It is by no means necessary for everyone to do it. Maybe I'm better like this. Maybe I could live my life in my own world, and then simply leave it when it's time to go.

  David Levithan

  Mean, Thinking, Healthy

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.105, Macmillan

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• You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. We pardon to the extent that we love. Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again. & great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Loved for ourselves. & even loved in spite of ourselves.

  Victor Hugo

  Lonely, Kindness, Love Is

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• Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before us today? How many momentous events in Scripture depended on one person's seemingly small act of obedience! Rest assured: Do what God tells you to do now, and, depend upon it, you will be shown what to do next.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Lying, Events, Doe

  Elisabeth Elliot (2002). “Quest for Love: True Stories of Passion and Purity”, p.145, Revell

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• There are no great acts, only small acts done with great love

  Mother Teresa

  Great Love, Done

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• Even a small act of compassion grants meaning and purpose to our lives.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Purpose, Grants

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (2003). “How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that's what we find, is that we're basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves.

  Dan Ariely

  Cheating, Real, Thinking

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• As you put your sights on your goals — no matter how great and compelling they are — as you look into the distance, don’t forget what is right in front of you today. No matter how great your dreams, no matter how great your destiny, the biggest thing you can do in any day is a small act of kindness.

  Cory Booker

  Dream, Kindness, Distance

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• Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

  Carly Fiorina

  Funny, Leadership, Strokes

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• We need to build millions of little moments of caring on an individual level. Indeed, as talk of a politics of meaning becomes more widespread, many people will feel it easier to publicly acknowledge their own spiritual and ethical aspirations and will allow themselves to give more space to their highest vision in their personal interactions with others. A politics of meaning is as much about these millions of small acts as it is about any larger change. The two necessarily go hand in hand.

  Michael Lerner

  God, Spiritual, Caring

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• Courage has you say in a defiant spirit you can take everything from me, you could cut me deep, you could render me in shame but you will never ever stop me from loving those who mock me, from loving those that hate me, from loving those who don't forgive me, from loving the cynics, from loving the darkness so much that I myself through my small acts of consistent unyielding love may bring on the light.

  Cory Booker

  Beautiful, Hate, Cutting

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• When autumn darkness falls, what we will remember are the small acts of kindness: a cake, a hug, an invitation to talk, and every single rose. These are all expressions of a nation coming together and caring about its people.

  Jens Stoltenberg

  Kindness, Fall, Caring

  "We Choose Dignity" by Jens Stoltenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2011.

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• Act without doing; work without effort. Think of the small as large and the few as many. Confront the difficult while it is still easy; accomplish the great task by a series of small acts. The Master never reaches for the great; thus she achieves greatness. When she runs into a difficulty, she stops and gives herself to it. She doesn't cling to her own comfort; thus problems are no problem for her.

  Laozi

  Running, Greatness, Thinking

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• Discipline is built by consistently performing small acts of courage.

  Robin Sharma

  Courage, Discipline, Performing

  Twitter post from Sep 05, 2016

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• Soil is not usually lost in slabs or heaps of magnificent tonnage. It is lost a little at a time over millions of acres by the careless acts of millions of people. It cannot be saved by heroic feats of gigantic technology, but only by millions of small acts and restraints, conditioned by small fidelities, skills, and desires. Soil loss is ultimately a cultural problem; it will be corrected only by cultural solutions.

  Wendell Berry

  Loss, Technology, Skills

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.202, Counterpoint

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• I think it's an aggregation of all of the small acts that are really transformative. I think a group of small acts transform the individual. And maybe when the individual transforms, collectively we transform.

  Chris Abani

  Thinking, Groups, Individual

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• The world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said, that uttering nonsense and half-truth without cease ends by destroying Intellect

  Jacques Barzun

  Character, Long, Half

  Jacques Barzun (1959). “The House of Intellect”

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