Top 26 Life And Pettiness Quotes
#1. all of us lost souls allow ourselves to live in worry and anger and self-importance and pettiness when life with God is all around us:
John Ortberg
#2. In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#3. On the whole I consider the constant need for delight and diversion in completely new things to be a sign of pettiness, lack of inner life, of estrangement from nature, and of a mediocre or defective gift of understanding.
Robert Walser
#4. The future of human liberty ... means the future of civilization.
Henry Hazlitt
#5. Someday it'll all be done by machine. Information machines.
Thomas Pynchon
#6. In the presence of greatness, pettiness disappears. In the absence of a great dream, pettiness prevails.
Peter M. Senge
#7. Once you have been confronted with a life-and-death situation, trivia no longer matters. Your perspective grows and you live at a deeper level. There's no time for pettiness.
Happy Rockefeller
#8. The true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one's failure or pettiness or wrongness exists the living drama of the self.
Gore Vidal
#9. Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts.
Sheri S. Tepper
#10. Beautiful doesn't begin to describe it. A flower is beautiful. But this is beautiful the way that a person is beautiful- terrifying with its jagged edges, yet seductive with its crevices that hide so many secrets.
Jeri Smith-Ready
#11. Oftentimes in life, we can only determine our actions; not the outcome.
David P. Ingerson
#12. If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.
Martin Heidegger
#13. A positive attitude and an open mind are true characteristics of all good fishermen
Kevin VanDam
#14. You know, how there are some people who have no time for small things? Pettiness, I mean. In the way they let things go - because whatever huge, life-changing thing happened to them gave them a perspective most of us can't ever have.
Debbie Howells
#16. I write because I love. I love because I write.
A.D. Posey
#17. Thank you," she murmured, hoping he knew it wasn't just for helping her up the tree and through the window. Hoping he knew it was for everything. The thrills, the laughs, the secrets he'd shared.
Marissa Meyer
#18. What is gone is gone and will not come back. When the earth swallows, it swallows forever and we are left to stumble along feeling the absences. These are our burdens.
Nadia Hashimi
#19. I hadn't showered
for days, Jack hadn't stopped crying in as many, and I was wondering
what the return policy was on an infant.
Jane Buckingham
#21. Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.
George Iles
#22. I have been thinking about you a great deal this summer; having somebody take an interest in me after all these years makes me feel as though I had found a sort of family. It seems as though I belonged to somebody now, and it's a very comfortable sensation.
Jean Webster
#23. New situations requiring closer contact with the rabbit had been gradually introduced and the degree to which these situations were avoided, tolerated, or welcomed, at each experimental session, gave the measure of improvement.
Mary C. Jones
#24. Every day, God grants us the precious gift of life. Yet every day, we squander it with our selfish, petty concerns, rather than helping someone as He helps us.
Kirn Hans
#25. If you are losing your leisure, look out!
It may be you are losing your soul.
Virginia Woolf
#26. And all of a sudden I saw that if life seems awfully petty most of the time, every now and then there is something noble and beautiful and almost pure that lifts us suddenly out of the pettiness and lets us share in it a little.
Laurence Yep
