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• I am sure that there is no place in the world where your message would not be enhanced by your making the place (whether tiny or large, a hut or a palace) orderly, artistic and beautiful with some form of creativity, some form of ‘art’ (p. 213).

  Edith Schaeffer

  Beautiful, Art, Creativity

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• My writing isn’t a career or a craft or a hobby or anything like that. It is more like a tiny annex to my life, a little crawl space in which I occasionally end up by accident in the dark.

  Gary Lutz

  Writing, Dark, Careers

  "Newly fraught and alien". Interview with David Winters, www.3ammagazine.com. July 14, 2011.

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• I have loved this life.  I smile because I have tiny dreams that play hopscotch at the corners of my mouth.  And every time I breathe they float, every time I laugh, they fly kites.

  Shane Koyczan

  Dream, Play, Laughing

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• If only [there] really was a door and [you] could walk through it into another life, where threads didn't snarl and stitches didn't go all tight and tiny. Where people loved you and didn't leave you for someone else.

  Karen Hancock

  Doors, People, Stitches

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• Yes, twenty-seven million in slavery is a lot of people, but it is just .0043 percent of the world's population. Yes, $23 billion a year in slave-made products as services is a lot of money but it is exactly what Americans spent on Valentine's Day in 2005. If humans trafficking generates $32 billion in profits annually, that is still a tiny drop in the ocean of the world economy.

  Kevin Bales

  Valentine, Ocean, Years

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• Mainiacs away from Maine are truly displaced persons, only half alive, only half aware of their immediate surroundings. Their inner attention is always preoccupied and pre-empted by the tiny pinpoint on the face of the globe called Down East. They try to live not in such a manner that they will eventually be welcomed into Paradise, but only so that someday they can go home to Maine.

  Louise Dickinson Rich

  Home, Trying, East

  Louise Dickinson Rich (1964). “State o' Maine”

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• Remember, all of man's happiness is in the little valleys. Tiny little ones. Small enough to call from one side to the other.

  Jean Giono

  Men, Valleys, Littles

  Jean Giono (2013). “Blue Boy”, p.151, Read Books Ltd

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• The smallest change in perspective can transform a life. What tiny attitude adjustment might turn your world around?

  Oprah Winfrey

  Wisdom, Attitude, Perspective

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• I was always going to act, literally ever since I was tiny. In fact, I have Doctor Who to thank for that. I wanted to become an actor after being obsessed with Tom Baker, the fourth Doctor Who, in the 1970s. His was the definitive performance of all time in anything.

  David Tennant

  Doctors, Bakers, Actors

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• An hour of my time is a tiny price to pay for all the support I've gotten from my fans.

  Erik Estrada

  Support, Fans, Pay

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• Our time here on the earth is short, and our chance to make a difference is tiny. For me the grinding blocks of history came together in such a way that I was able to take what fragile defense I had and hold in place for seventy-six days. If I was able to give much it was only because I had some useful things from my life to give. I am a hotel manager...my job never changed, even in a sea of fire.

  Paul Rusesabagina

  Jobs, Block, Sea

  Paul Rusesabagina (2009). “An Ordinary Man: The True Story Behind Hotel Rwanda”, p.131, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If I have this child? Why wasn’t it obvious to me that I already had a child, who was growing inside of me? Once you are pregnant, there is no if. That child, though tiny and in an early stage of development, already exists!

  Abby Johnson

  Children, Development, Growing

  Abby Johnson (2014). “Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader's Eye-Opening Journey across the Life Line”, p.45, Tyndale House

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• A useful analogy is to see traditional societies as relying on instantaneous (or minimally delayed) and constantly replenished solar income, while modern civilization is withdrawing accumulated solar capital at rates that will exhaust it in a tiny fraction of the time that was needed to create it.

  Vaclav Smil

  Civilization, Income, Analogies

  Vaclav Smil (2012). “Energy: A Beginner's Guide”, p.80, Oneworld Publications

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• The Protestant wing of the western church, which is a tiny percentage of the Body of Christ, is nearly completely (98%) unaware that the Holy Spirit is restoring contemplative prayer-center stage-to the church The Holy Spirit is restoring this precious jewel (contemplative prayer) to the body of Christ. This is the God ordained means of attaining the fullness of God.

  Mike Bickle

  Prayer, Mean, Jewels

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• Negotiations are about controlling things, about being in the driver's seat and make one tiny mistake; you're dead. I made one tiny mistake, I wore women's clothes

  Michael Scott

  Mistake, Clothes, Negotiation

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• Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry: "More light." Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlight. Neon. Incandescent. Lights that banish the darkness from our caves, to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier's field. Little tiny flashlight for those books we read under the covers when we're supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and footcandles. Light is metaphor... Light is knowledge. Light is life. Light is light.

  Diane Frolov

  Book, Knowledge, Night

  "Northern Exposure". www.imdb.com. 1990-1995.

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• I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose. And as long as I had a part in the music of the spheres, even if it was only a single grace note, I was not worthless. Nor was I alone.

  R. J. Anderson

  Long, Grace, Cosmos

  R. J. Anderson (2011). “Ultraviolet”, p.291, Carolrhoda Lab

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• You are an incredible child of God having a dream that you are a human being on a tiny planet in the middle of nowhere.

  Drunvalo Melchizedek

  Dream, Children, Middle Of Nowhere

  Drunvalo Melchizedek (2003). “Living in the Heart: How to Enter Into the Sacred Space Within the Heart”, p.103, Light Technology Publishing

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• We are just a little tiny flicker of a much larger flame that is Life itself, Consciousness itself, Being itself, Love itself, God’s very self.

  Richard Rohr

  Self, Flames, Littles

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• From tiny, tiny waves of joy, one gets to the ocean of happiness, which is called bliss.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Ocean, Joy, Bliss

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• The world is MADE up of language. We can SAY that the world is composed of little demons doing calisthenics, each one the size of a pissant's eyebrow.... Or we can SAY the world is made of tiny wave mechanical packets of matter hurling through space at near the speed of light.... But notice that what we get each time are WORDS.

  Terence McKenna

  Eyebrows, Space, Light

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• I’ve got this tiny pang of regret when I think of how much I have probably missed out on in the last few years because I was too scared to take a risk, or too shy to speak up, or too worried to be bold.

  Jessi Kirby

  Regret, Thinking, Years

  Jessi Kirby (2014). “Golden”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower
  I will pitch my tent in your shadow.
  Only your presence revives my withered heart.
  You are the candle that lights the whole world
  and I am an empty vessel for your light.

  Rumi

  Flower, Heart, Empty Vessels

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• It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations: the vastness of the universe, the immensity of time, the relatedness of all life, and life's preciousness on our tiny planet.

  Ann Druyan

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Tragedy

  "Ann Druyan Talks About Science, Religion, Wonder, Awe . . . and Carl Sagan". Skeptical Inquirer Interview, Volume 27.6, www.csicop.org. November / December 2003.

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• Excitement and depression, fortune and misfortune, pleasure and pain are storms in a tiny private, shell-bound realm - which we take to be the whole of existence. Yet we can break out of this shell and enter a new world.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Pain, Storm, Break Out

  Eknath Easwaran (2007). “The Dhammapada: (Classics of Indian Spirituality)”, p.66, Nilgiri Press

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