Top 54 Happiness Comes From Small Things Quotes
#1. A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
George Eliot
#2. Happiness is the result of an attitude of mind. I believe you can build it out of small things ...
Miss Read
#3. MODERATION.SMALL HELPINGS. SAMPLE A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING. THESE ARE THE SECRETS OF HAPPINESS AND GOOD HEALTH.
Julia Child
#4. What if she'd turned down the lightly flung invitation and went about her life, thudding obliviously along like a drunk person, a blind person, a moron, someone who thinks that the small packet of happiness she carries is enough.
Meg Wolitzer
#5. Why worry about these small, small things? I don't stress. You never hear of anyone dying of happiness.
Fauja Singh
#6. Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happens but seldom.
Meik Wiking
#7. If you can understand the purpose of a small tree, you will be able to understand yourself and become free.
Debasish Mridha
#8. Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace'
One grand boulevard with trees
with one grand cafe in sun
with strong black coffee in very small cups.
One not necessarily very beautiful
man or woman who loves you.
One fine day.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
#9. Happiness is a Small Politician' - my mantra then and forever more.
Ralph Steadman
#11. It was odd
unsettling, actually
how love magnified everything. Small joy was turned into overwhelming happiness; worry became heart-stopping fear. It was as if love became a magnifying glass turned on the heart, taking whatever was there and making it appear many times its normal size.
Michael Thomas Ford
#13. Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.
Jane Austen
#14. When we were together before, the world was small to us, but as you grew bigger to life and the world became desirous to living, we became smaller to each other.
Anthony Liccione
#15. The secret of good health and happiness is to have rather small illnesses throughout your life which you can rely on to stop you doing anything you don't want to do.
John Mortimer
#16. Question everything, even the question mark, that shepherd's crook floating in the air above that small round rock
If you - stubbornly - still wish to be unhappy,
maybe you can grasp it.
Dick Allen
#17. I have found that, rather than dwelling on the negative, if we will take a step back and consider the blessings in our lives, including seemingly small, sometimes overlooked blessings, we can find greater happiness.
Thomas S. Monson
#18. There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.
Robert Breault
#19. Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound.
David Lynch
#20. If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.
Emily Dickinson
#21. Oh and finding happiness in the small things, my dear, that's really nothing to brag about - it's the last consolation of those whose imaginations have failed them.
Olga Grushin
#22. 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
#23. The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.
Jennifer Niven
#24. Don't try to do great thing, but don't forget to do small things with great care and great love.
Debasish Mridha
#25. Try to find something that makes you happy. Your life is not going to get easier once Queen Levana is your wife. If you had even one small thing that brought you happiness, or hope that things could someday be better, then maybe that would be enough to sustain you.
Marissa Meyer
#26. Find happiness where you can," she said softly. "It's not just the great big whammo things. Look for the beauty of life in the small things, and you'll be the happiest person alive.
Jackie Sigmund
#27. What is it about the moment you fall in love? How can such a small measure of time contain such enormity?
David Levithan
#28. It is no accident that on the whole there was more beauty and decency to be found in the life of the small peoples, and that among the large ones there was more happiness and content in proportion as they had avoided the deadly blight of centralization.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#29. 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
#30. We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.
Isabel Allende
#31. I did have a very restricted, regimented life. There was a kind of happiness there, a contentment, but it was a small happiness within very clear and delineated borders.
Daniel Tammet
#32. Success is in the big things.
Happiness is in the small things.
Meditation is in Nothing.
And, God is in everything
T.T. Rangarajan
#33. From what might appear to you to be small choices, the Lord will lead you to the happiness you want. Through your choices He will be able to bless countless others.
Henry B. Eyring
#34. To be happy a woman had to think hard, during long silent hours, about how to make each small step forward.
Fatema Mernissi
#35. Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.
Victor Hugo
#36. Happiness is there where wants and needs are small, but the desire to give is big.
Debasish Mridha
#37. Something about this small glimmer of happiness feels wrong, but I can't think about that. I just hold onto the glimmer, the shred. I let myself feel a tiny bit happy. Even though it kind of hurts.
Amanda Maciel
#38. You can have small moments of happiness in life. You certainly can't expect years and years of it.
Donatella Versace
#39. if you wanted to see me dead,you would whisper and i could kill self for you happiness it was a small thing but you made yourself corrupt for very small thing
Mohammed Zaki Ansari
#40. Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.
Norman Lear
#41. Happiness comes in small doses folks. It's a cigarette butt, or a chocolate chip cookie or a five second orgasm. You come, you smoke the butt you eat the cookie you go to sleep wake up and go back to fucking work the next morning, THAT'S IT! End of fucking list!
Denis Leary
#42. You'll see, you'll come to understand. These big things, these terrible things, are not the important ones. If they were, how could one go on living? No, it is the small, little things that make up a day, that bring fullness and happiness to a life.
Benedict Freedman
#43. Was it not his Self, his small, fearful and proud Self, with which he had wrestled for so many years, but which had always conquered him again, which appeared each time again and again, which robbed him of happiness and filled him with fear?
Hermann Hesse
#45. No question, no problem, no concern, is too big or too small for God to handle!
Elizabeth George
#46. I wish there could be an international peace
conference of booksellers, for (you will smile at this) my own
conviction is that the future happiness of the world depends in no
small measure on them and on the librarians.
Christopher Morley
#47. I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments.
Lord Chesterfield
#48. My isolation is not a search for happiness, which I do not have the heart to win, nor for peace, which one finds only when it will never more be lost; what I seek is sleep, extinction, a small surrender.
Fernando Pessoa
#49. Every small thing grows when you nurture it, Rosie. Love is just the same. But if that is making you miserable then, leave and find something else that brings you happiness you deserve to feel.
Cecelia Ahern
#50. Why waste so much time, energy, and money trying to buy the biggest house that your credit rating will allow? Truth be known, a small house can hold as much happiness as a large one. Sometimes it will hold even more.
Ernie J Zelinski
#51. A thousand pieces of gold may hardly bring a moment's happiness, but a small favor can cause a lifetime's gratitude. Too much love can turn to enmity, while aloofness can produce joy.
Zicheng Hong
#52. A Happiness key: Maintain something to be enthusiastic about. Small/frequent goals = Dopamine hits that propel success.
Steve Maraboli
#53. I don't know who I am or who I was. I know it less than ever. I do and I don't identify myself with myself. Everything is totally contradictory, but maybe I have remained exactly as I was as a small boy of twelve.
Alberto Giacometti
#54. That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. A small drinking glass and a large one may be equally full, but the large one holds more than the small.
Samuel Johnson
