Small Things Quotes - Page 13

• Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Mother, Lying

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• Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Children, Perspective, Perception

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• Repentance can become a very, very deep phenomenon in you if you understand the responsibility. Then even a small thing, if it becomes a repentance-- not just verbal, not just on the surface; if it goes deep to the roots, if you repent from the roots; if your whole being shakes and trembles and cries, and tears come out; not only out of your eyes but out of every cell of your body, then repentance can become a transfiguration.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Eye, Responsibility

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• my mother was taught the ch'an concept of happiness, which was to find satisfaction in small things. i was taught to appreciate the fresh air in the morning, the colour of leaves turning red in autumn and the water's smoothness when i soaked my hands in the basin.

  Anchee Min

  Mother, Morning, Autumn

  Anchee Min (2005). “Empress Orchid”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great.

  John Piper

  Strong, Long, Drunk

  John Piper (2013). “A Hunger for God”, p.25, SPCK

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• As the clockwork of the millennia moved a notch in front of their eyes, it had taken their thoughts from small things and reminded them of how vulnerable they were to time.

  Mark Helprin

  Taken, Eye, Vulnerable

  Mark Helprin (1989). “Winter's Tale”, Pocket Books

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• What we need most right now, at this moment, is a kind of patriotic grace - a grace that takes the long view, apprehends the moment we're in, comes up with ways of dealing with it, and eschews the politically cheap and manipulative. That admits affection and respect. That encourages them. That acknowledges that the small things that divide us are not worthy of the moment; that agrees that the things that can be done to ease the stresses we feel as a nation should be encouraged, while those that encourage our cohesion as a nation should be supported.

  Peggy Noonan

  Stress, Patriotic, Views

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• Sometimes small things can become very large, indeed.

  Rick Riordan

  Sometimes, Dionysus

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth”, p.248, Penguin UK

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• Though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements (and do not and must not discount them now), those of us who prevail today will have done no small thing. The special spirits who have been reserved to live in this time of challenges and who overcome will one day be praised for their stamina by those who pulled handcarts.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Spiritual, Achievement, Challenges

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• It's about glowing lights and small things that are big.

  Markus Zusak

  Light, Glowing, Bigs

  "The Messenger". Book by Markus Zusak, January 10, 2002.

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• When a man looks at the stars, he grows calm and forgets small things. They answer his questions and show him that his earth is only one of the million worlds. Hold your soul still and look upward often, and you will understand their speech. Never forget the stars.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Stars, Men, Soul

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2014). “The Land of the Blue Flower”, p.10, The Floating Press

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• The whole of the life -- even the hard -- is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the whole. These are new language lessons, and I live them out. There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.

  Ann Voskamp

  Thanksgiving, Missing, Add

  FaceBook post by Ann Voskamp from Feb 28, 2014

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• Can we not will ourselves to achieve the impossible? Can we not use the power of our life force to change something: one small thing, one insignificant moment, one breath, one gesture? Is there nothing we can do to change what is around us?

  Garth Stein

  Use, Gestures, Impossible

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• Small things such as this have saved me: how much I love my mother — even after all these years. How powerfully I carry her within me. My grief is tremendous but my love is bigger. So is yours. You are not grieving your son’s death because his death was ugly and unfair. You’re grieving it because you loved him truly. The beauty in that is greater than the bitterness of his death.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Mother, Grief, Son

  "DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column №78: The Obliterated Place". therumpus.net. July 1, 2011.

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• One Christmas at the very beginning of your twenties when your mother gives you a warm coat that she saved for months to buy, don’t look at her skeptically after she tells you she thought the coat was perfect for you. Don’t hold it up and say it’s longer than you like your coats to be and too puffy and possibly even too warm. Your mother will be dead by spring. That coat will be the last gift she gave you. You will regret the small thing you didn’t say for the rest of your life. Say thank you.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Mother, Regret, Spring

  "Dear Sugar, The Rumpus advice Column #64: Tiny beautiful things". therumpus.net. February 10, 2011.

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• No small thing, a bee's sting When it enters the heart Not so benign, the growing vine When it tears stone apart

  Shannon Hale

  Heart, Tears, Vines

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• He's a man...and that's no small thing to be.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Men

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• Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

  Voltaire

  Relationship, Sleep, Knowing

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• Great men are sometimes so even in small things.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Sometimes, Great Men

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• When the ship is going down we trouble ourselves little enough about the style of the cabin furniture.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Style, Cabins, Littles

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• I have a suggestion: When a temple is conveniently nearby, small things may interrupt your plans to go to the temple. Set specific goals, considering your circumstances, of when you can and will participate in temple ordinances. Then do not allow anything to interfere with that plan.

  Richard G. Scott

  Goal, Suggestions, May

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• Each family prayer, each episode of family scripture study, and each family home evening is a brushstroke on the canvas of our souls. No one event may appear to be very impressive or memorable. But just as the yellow and gold and brown strokes of paint complement each other and produce an impressive masterpiece, so our consistency in doing seemingly small things can lead to significant spiritual results.

  David A. Bednar

  Spiritual, Prayer, Home

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• Be not weary in well-doing. … Out of small things proceedeth that which is great. Behold, the Lord requireth the heart and a willing mind.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Heart, Mind, Lord

  Thomas S. Monson (1988). “Live the Good Life”, Shadow Mountain

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• But I shall give less thought to the future, I shall work in the present. I feel such work is within my power. For I only succeed in small things, and when I am tried by anxiety, I am bound to say it is the small joys that release me.

  Georges Bernanos

  Giving, Joy, Anxiety

  Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.293, Da Capo Press

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• I realize that in a happy life, making your bed should play a very small part, I don't know why this is so helpful to people getting started on a happiness project, but for some reason, making your bed - it's concrete, it's manageable. There's a big difference between having a bed that's unmade and a bed that's made. That little bit of outer order in people's lives seem to help them get started. So, that's a very small thing that you can do.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Happy Life, Order, Play

  Source: bigthink.com

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