Small Things Quotes - Page 5

• Love is a big and wonderful idea, but life is made up of small things. As a kid, you have nothing to do with the way the world is run; you just have to hurry to catch up with it.

  Heather O'Neill

  Running, Kids, Love Is

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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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• Well, on lots of small things we could have done better, but on all the big things we called it right. You should make less mistakes as you get older, and I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.

  Ken Livingstone

  Mistake, Done, Should

  "Ken Livingstone: 'It's an autobiography, not porn'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.

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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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• 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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• I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Happiness, Hurt

  "The Ocean at the End of the Lane". Book by Neil Gaiman, June 18, 2013.

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• There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

  Andre Gide

  Life, Long, Doe

  "If It Die". Book by André Gide, ch. III, 1924.

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• Put your energies into creativity. Forget about anger as a problem, ignore it. Channelise your energy towards more creativity. Pour yourself into something that you love. Rather than making anger your problem, let creativity be your object of meditation. Shift from anger to creativity and immediately you will see a great change arising in you. And tomorrow the same things will not feel like excuses for being angry because now energy is moving, is channelised, is being sublimated, is enjoying itself, its dance. Who cares about small things?

  Rajneesh

  Moving, Anger, Creativity

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• There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Time, Great Things, All Things

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.556, Wordsworth Editions

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• In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?"

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Time, Fate

  James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton (1904). “The poetical works”

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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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• The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you're above everybody else.

  Kevin Hart

  Thinking

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• You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Ideas, Ordinary, Very Inspirational

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• Every one of those old songs like "What's My Age Again?" and "All the Small Things" is like a tattoo or a scrapbook or an old photograph. There are just songs that define certain moments in your life. Everyone has a song that got them through a bad breakup or they put on and it made them feel like they wanted to go out and kick the world's ass with their friends on a weekend. Those songs still feel like that to me.

  Mark Hoppus

  Tattoo, Breakup, Song

  Source: www.spin.com

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• By learning to accept the small things immediately as they happen, you can be free of having to react to things at all. You still can respond when action is needed, but you can be free, internally, of events.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Events, Action, Accepting

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Remember all the times you were a winner; the times when you did something you were proud of, even small things. Hold these feelings close to you, this joy and confidence.

  Louise Hay

  Joy, Feelings, Proud

  Louise L. Hay (2009). “Empowering Women: Every Woman's Guide to Successful Living”, p.100, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• Of all the dear sights in the world, nothing is so beautiful as children when they are giving something. Any small thing they give. Children give the world to you. They open the world to you as if it were a book you'd never been able to read. But when a gift must be found, it is always some absurd little thing, passed on crooked. . . an angel looking like a clown. Children have so little that they can give, because they never know they have given you everything.

  Margaret Lee Runbeck

  Beautiful, Children, Book

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• I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing.

  Ann Voskamp

  Thinking, Next, Faithfulness

  Source: www.churchleaders.com

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• India is a country of 1.25 billion people. We can't run our country if we get worried about every small thing. At the same time, we can't close our eyes to problems. That's why India maintains that we are now in a different era. We are not living in the eighteenth century. China is also a country with an ancient cultural heritage. Look at how it has focused on economic development. It's hardly the sign of a country that wants to be isolated. It wants to stay connected.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Running, Eye

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• Being sociopath is not what most people would consider to be winning. Most of us have some kind of positive goal in mind when we think of winning. A sociopath thinks in terms of successfully manipulating someone into doing something that he or she would not have done otherwise. That can be a small thing or a tremendous thing, but the point for the sociopath is to win, to make sure that this person does what they're trying to coerce him or her into doing. It can be as disgusting and as simple as making a child cry. Or it can be as complex as making your wife feel bad about herself.

  Martha Stout

  Children, Thinking, Winning

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• In physics there's the old law for every action there's a equal amount of reaction. Sometimes that's true in politics. If somebody's out there making nonsensical statements, but wielding power behind them a lot of people say, "Well, I need to react to that." Another reason for the increased prominence of the climate-change issue is the Paris Agreement itself. It's not a small thing when just about every nation in the entire world comes together and makes an historic agreement like this. It's a big deal. And the old cliché "The train is leaving the station" kind of applies.

  Al Gore

  People, Leaving, Together

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The mind/body connection is like a telephone line - many telephone lines, in fact, teeming with information. Small things like drinking an orange juice with pulp or eating an apple is being received like a telephone call to your genes. Every thought, every thing you eat, every single little thing can tweak your genes activity towards healing.

  Deepak Chopra

  Drinking, Healing, Orange Juice

  Source: www.psychologies.co.uk

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