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• Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.

  Adolphe Monod

  Inspirational, Dream, Goal

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• Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind.

  Charlotte Mason

  Sight, Mind, Crowds

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• Do the small things of life with a relaxed awareness. When you are eating, eat totally - chew totally, taste totally, smell totally. Touch your bread, feel the texture. Smell the bread, smell the flavor. Chew it, let it dissolve into your being.

  Rajneesh

  Smell, Touching, Texture

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• When I look at small things, I think I shall go on living: drops of rain, leather gloves shrunk by being wet... When I look at something too big, I want to die: the Diet Building, or a map of the world.

  Kobo Abe

  Rain, Thinking, Looks

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• Greatness is a lot of small things done well.

  Eric Thomas

  Greatness, Done, Wells

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• The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you'll only achieve small things.

  T. Harv Eker

  Thinking, People, Obstacles

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• 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

  Life, Giving, Add

  Ann Voskamp (2012). “One Thousand Gifts Devotional: Reflections on Finding Everyday Graces”, p.69, Zondervan

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• Why worry about these small, small things? I don't stress. You never hear of anyone dying of happiness.

  Fauja Singh

  Stress, Worry, Dying

  "The secret of the world's oldest marathon runner" by Nosheen Iqbal, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2011.

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  If you don't have time for the small things, you won't have time for the big things

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Business, Bigs

  Twitter post from Jul 31, 2013

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• You can pray while you work. Work doesn't stop prayer and prayer doesn't stop work. It requires only that small raising of the mind to him: I love you God, I trust you, I believe in you, I need you now. Small things like that. They are wonderful prayers.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Believe, Love You

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• As often as not our whole self...engages itself in the most trivial of things, the shape of a particular hill, a road in the town in which we lived as children, the movement of wind in grass. The things we shall take with us when we die will nearly all be small things.

  Storm Jameson

  Life, Children, Self

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• At length, when I considered it, I realized that the best of my actions were small things. Picking flowers and cooking food for my mother when she had been unwell, spending an afternoon with the children, sending money to my sister or kissing Henry's tiny head as he slept in the nursery before I left. I thought of every detail and afterwards I felt better. Hellfire and brimstone have never appealed to me and I admit I become easily confused thinking of right and wrong. But I do understand kindness.

  Sara Sheridan

  Mother, Children, Kindness

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• When you are not the doer how can the attachment happen? You do a small thing and you become attached. You say, "I have done this." You would like everybody to know that you have done this and you have done that. This ego is the barrier for the supreme understanding. Drop the doer and let things happen. That's what Tilopa means by being loose and natural.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Attachment, Ego

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• Heart be brave. If you cannot be brave, just go. Love's glory is not a small thing.

  Rumi

  Courage, Heart, Brave

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• Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.

  Alexandra David-Neel

  Coward, Excuse, Neglect

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• Every day I try to do some small thing connected to writing. Or I'll station myself at a café and try to hold myself captive with chocolate. I find that writers tend to be dismissive of small amounts of work or time, but they can actually add up. I've written several books in 15 minute increments.

  Diana Abu-Jaber

  Book, Writing, Chocolate

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• For life is an expression, our unconscious actions the constant betrayal of our innermost thought. Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal. The tiny incidents of daily rouitine are as much a commentary of racial ideas as the highest flight of philosophy or poetry.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Life, Appreciation, Betrayal

  Okakura Kakuzo (2012). “The Book of Tea: Classic Edition”, p.17, Tuttle Publishing

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• The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.

  Pat Summitt

  Sports, Responsibility, Care

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.35, Crown Business

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• I started out giving thanks for small things, and the more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Giving

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.84, Macmillan

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• Before, it came easy for me. I don't have two speeds anymore. I need to focus on the small things that I once took for granted.

  Michael Phelps

  Two, Focus, Needs

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• Interruptions: The average worker gets interrupted five times each hour. It takes an average of 5 minutes to handle each interruption and 1 minute to get back to what you were doing. This adds up to 30 minutes each hour or 50% of your time!!
  You've got to think about "big things" while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

  Alvin Toffler

  Thinking, Average, Add

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• Most of us forget to take time for wonder, praise and gratitude until it is almost too late. Gratitude is a many-colored quality, reaching in all directions. It goes out for small things and for large; it is a God-ward going.

  Faith Baldwin

  Thank You, Gratitude, Quality

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• What's really important here," I whispered loudly to myself,"is not the big things other people have thought up, but the small things you, yourself have

  Haruki Murakami

  People, Important, Pithy

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• It’s a small thing to help one animal, but to that one animal it’s a big thing

  Gene Baur

  Animal, Helping, Bigs

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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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