Top 100 Quotes About Life Small
#1. The grand point is not to wear the garb, nor use the brogue of religion, but to process the life of God within, and feel and think as Jesus would have done because of that inner life. Small is the value of extended religion, unless it is the outcome of a life within.
C.S. Lewis
#2. My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he'd be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because I'm sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville, Wisconsin.
Paul Ryan
#3. The huge problems we deal with every day are actually really small. We're so focused on what bothers us
that we don't even try to see our lives from a clearer perspective.
Susane Colasanti
#4. I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid.
The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective ... it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you've been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.
Beyonce Knowles
#5. Nothing would give up life:
Even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath.
Theodore Roethke
#6. what matters is not that we believe in God. God is not small-minded. What matters is for us to understand that life is serious and rich. We should appreciate it and also try to make the world a better place. Whoever finds a balance between the two is close to God.
David Lagercrantz
#7. I love 'Anna Karenina.' It's in the top five books on my list. Tolstoy is unsurpassed in combining the grand with the trivial, that is, the small details which make up life.
Susan Minot
#8. Death is never more than a breath away from the act of playing music. Each note on a guitar represents a small curve: birth, life, and death-and then you start over.
Andy Summers
#9. When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without - oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!
Herman Melville
#10. It is a small part of life we really live.' Indeed, all the rest is not life but merely time.
Seneca.
#11. In health we're doing the digestive system. We each got assigned a topic for an oral report. I got the small intestine. I swear to god I hate my life.
Lynda Barry
#12. Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
Florence Nightingale
#13. I had wanted to compromise with Fate: to escape occasional great agonies by submitting to a whole life of privation and small pains.
Charlotte Bronte
#15. God is calling you to change the world one life at a time and one small step at a time. Begin today where you are.
Dillon Burroughs
#16. I'm beginning to think that life is about passing moments and small celebrations. Without them there's only pain, fear, ambition, and, for some of us, foolish hope.
Kyra Davis
#17. I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds.
Bertrand Russell
#18. But life in the fast lane took a toll on men who cared and it was eating Jonas one small piece at a time.
Christine Feehan
#19. Mortification is basic to the act of photographing. The person is mobile, ... then I freeze one moment in his movement, a mere five-hundredth of a second of that person's life-time. That's a very meager or small extract from a life.
August Sander
#20. 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
#21. All that you have been is but a small part, a very mere bit of the potential of your life.
Jennifer DeLucy
#22. 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
#23. Here is our first rule: Any life you create is yours, and must be cared for. No matter how humble or small, it is still yours, and you must answer for it.
John C. Wright
#24. God is concerned that Christians live consistent with their profession even in the seemingly small and insignificant areas of life.
Max Anders
#25. To be outspoken when truth is under attack, when charity is being bruise, or when important issues of life are at stake is a good and courageous thing. To be outspoken when nothing is at stake except the feelings of someone else is a small and contemptible thing.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
#26. The little things. Perhaps it is these trivialities I have been writing down in my book, these small hooks on which my whole life is hung.
S.J. Watson
#27. The Warrior of the Light concentrates on the small miracles of daily life. He is capable of seeing what is beautiful because he carries beauty within himself, for the world is a mirror and gives back to each man the reflection of his own face.
Paulo Coelho
#28. What is life, in the end, but a series of small victories and larger failures?
Guillermo Del Toro
#29. Think boldly. Don't be afraid of making mistakes. Don't miss small details, keep your eyes open and be modest in everything except your aims.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
#30. When you're stuck sitting in a comfort zone, small problems become magnified. Get out of your comfort zone, touch the edge, and you come back with an appreciation for life.
Barbara Warren
#31. In spite of her desire for a contained universe, her life felt scattered, full of many small moments, without great purpose. That is what she thought, though what is most untrustworthy about our natures and self-worth is how we differe in our own realities from the way we are seen by others.
Michael Ondaatje
#32. I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.
Patrick Dempsey
#33. The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of life and chaos, 24 hours around the clock, just like in London. And whatever your problem is, it's insignificant. You're just a small part of something very big.
America Ferrera
#34. It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#35. Everybody that went away suffered a broken heart. "I'm coming back some day," they all wrote. But never did. The old life was too small to fit anymore.
Annie Proulx
#36. Getting love is a very small experience. It is the experience of beggar.
Rajneesh
#37. There is no reason to start small. If you want something, you go for it. You never know in this life when it will all be taken away.
Jennifer Ashley
#38. Most of the complexity of a human neuron is devoted to maintaining its life-support functions, not its information-processing capabilities. Ultimately, we will be able to port our mental processes to a more suitable computational substrate. Then our minds won't have to stay so small.
Ray Kurzweil
#39. Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space.
Susan Orlean
#40. The way America works, and the way L.A. works, is a very small percentage of people get what they want out of life, and a much greater percentage try very very hard and they don't. That's just the way it is.
James Frey
#41. Yes, it takes a lot of plant material to make a drop of oil, but a small drop of oil then contains the full force of the entire plant- of all of those plants. When you have a bottle of rose oil, you have the life force of 5,000 pounds of roses. That's a lot of plant. And that means a lot of life.
Andrew Edwin Jenkins
#42. To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small.
Paul Auster
#43. I spent nearly two years in a small village - perhaps seventy families. I've never worked harder or learned so much so fast in my life; as an anthropologist you are at work from when you open your eyes in the morning to when you close them at night.
James C. Scott
#44. How you shape your attitude is not a small part of how you shape your life ... it is the only part.
Neale Donald Walsch
#45. An expression of infinite wisdom, as if, in those first days of life, the small person retained the knowledge of a lifetime just passed.
Kate Morton
#46. Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes- all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them.
John Muir
#47. Just because we stumbled upon some hurdles, big or small, it doesn't mean that time will stop and wait for us, it won't. We have to keep moving forward no matter what.
Kcat Yarza
#48. Real life ... it was an ambiguous world, where actions sometimes had no meaning, where chaos reigned and no one was allowed to see the big picture, only their small portion of it.
Bentley Little
#49. A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
Roald Dahl
#50. For the first five years of my life, I grew up in a log cabin in coastal British Columbia in a very small town, like 300 people, mostly hippies. No running water, no electricity. When I was 12, I changed my name from Dharma to Stewart. At that age, you just want to be normal.
Stewart Butterfield
#51. A small change can make a big difference. You are the only one who can make our world a better place to inhabit. So, don't be afraid to take a stand .
Ankita Singhal
#52. Her life was a scattering of small moments, bits of meaningful conversations, and bright dashes of beauty where least expected.
Robin Jones Gunn
#53. It's true our lives can pass small and unnoticed by the masses, and we are no less dignified for having lived quietly. In fact, I've come to believe there's something noble about doing little with your life save offering love to a person who is offering it back.
Donald Miller
#54. There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Nelson Mandela
#55. The willingness to face traumas - be they large, small, primitive or fresh - is the key to healing from them. They may never disappear in the way we think they should, but maybe they don't need to. Trauma is an ineradicable aspect of life. We are human as a result of it, not in spite of it.
Mark Epstein
#57. Small courtesies were the lubricant of daily life.
Robert Jordan
#58. ...replying with a smile to the silent question asked by all small babies: "Who on earth are you?
Francoise Heritier
#59. The joy you feel when you become a small life particle sun and share its brightness and warmth with those around you is indescribably great.
Ilchi Lee
#60. The best portion of your life will be the small, nameless moments you spend smiling with those who matter to you most.
Auliq Ice
#61. There's always another storm. It's the way the world works. Snowstorms, rainstorms, windstorms, sandstorms, and firestorms. Some are fierce and others are small. You have to deal with each one separately, but you need to keep an eye on whats brewing for tomorrow.
Maria V. Snyder
#62. Art is an affirmation of life, a rebuttal of death. And here we blunder into paradox again, for during the creation of any form of art, art which affirms the value and the holiness of life, the artist must die. To serve a work of art, great or small, is to die, to die to self.
Madeleine L'Engle
#63. I've never lost a friend over work. I come from a small-town environment and I remember my childhood impressions that, if you were a conniver or a fink or whatever, everybody knew about it and you were a louse for the rest of your life. So I never lost those values in some way.
Jack Nicholson
#64. My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand.
Frederick Reines
#65. I am so small. A billion tons of durosteel and nanometal move through the heavens, and I have never been beyond Mars's atmosphere. They are like specks of silver in an ocean of ink. And I am so much less. But those specs could ravage Mars. They could destroy a moon. Those specks rule the ink.
Pierce Brown
#66. For he had learned from others of their kind that death seemed to bring small comfort from the worrisome sphere of life ...
Neal Barrett Jr.
#67. When I was small and easily wounded books were my carapace. If I were recalled to my hurts in the middle of a book they somehow mattered less. My corporeal life was slight the dazzling one in my head was what really mattered. Returning to books was coming home.
Lauren Groff
#68. Choose your battles - small enough to win but big enough to matter.
Carlos Wallace
#69. Hope Love Grace Luck
there is space between them because you can't hanle them if all four comes at once ... enjoy hope ,,,,definitely love will come to you with a small gap,and so grace and luck too.
Pavankumar Nagaraj
#70. The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career; yet it depended on so small a circumstance as my uncle offering to drive me 30 miles to Shrewsbury, which few uncles would have done, and on such a trifle as the shape of my nose.
Charles Darwin
#71. I'm grateful that on a lot of casts I've gained friends for life. But it's more of a rare thing than a normal thing. I have a small group of friends, and I just, uh, feel fulfilled by the people that are in my life.
Matt Czuchry
#72. The cares of this life emerge as very small items indeed along our daily path.
Watchman Nee
#73. I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
Roald Dahl
#74. Life is full of challenges large and small - each an invitation to retire old ways of thinking and to stretch toward new and better solutions.
Keith McFarland
#75. Do the small things with a great and a clean heart, even out of your least, and you never did a small thing at all, for the heart defines it all!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#76. I dream that one day I would be a published writer and people would read my books - if not, I would be living in the mountains in a small hut, near a pond where swans swim, writing a diary for myself.
Srinidhi.R
#77. The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.
E.B. White
#78. It's about how God continues to reach into the graves we dig for ourselves and pull us out, giving us new life, in ways both dramatic and small.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#79. I don't like MTV, and I don't like the culture that goes with it. It's OK in very small doses, maybe. Nevertheless, it's a social reality and has influenced how kids perceive things around them, the pace of life and the way people do things.
Seymour Papert
#80. EARTH comprises distances, great and small; danger and security; open ground and narrow passes; the chances of life and death.
Sun Tzu
#81. A small profit it better than a big loss
Ron Rash
#82. A small, seemingly inconsequential event can determine a life.
Tim O'Brien
#83. But circumstances change. Small causes lead to large effects. New paths are added.
And all anyone can do ... is choose.
Kelseyleigh Reber
#84. If you're worried about your very life, the last thing you want is small talk.
Rhys Bowen
#85. We all started off this way - small little bundles of joy. Me, Aires, Noah, Lila, Isaiah and even Beth. At some point, someone held us and loved us, but somewhere along the way, it all got screwed up.
Katie McGarry
#86. You have to learn to love the small things in life, like a hot bath. You have to love the small things, when you've nothing else.
Anonymous
#87. Such is life, marked by the ticking of the clock and the call of the alarm until the day it all falls into perpetual silence. For most of us, certainly for this boy, life is not composed of great deeds, but of small actions, and that's okay. It's the best I can give and I like it this way.
Gillibran Brown
#88. Every child is at some point a small Perseus, and this infatuation with the dark and the lonely is for most people an acute condition, best caught early in life like mumps, and which seldom recurs.
Luca Turin
#89. I can't make big changes, just small ones. Even out your skin. Do something with that mousy hair of yours. I've perfected myself, but I've had my whole life to do it.
Leigh Bardugo
#90. Don't you 'baby' me, you backwoods barbarian. I'm not settling for bringing you pie and beer for the rest of my life. I have plans. They don't include marriage to you.
Virginia Nelson
#91. Whatever your financial status in life, or whatever work you do, know that you can make a significant contribution to your family and world by doing small things with great love.
Joyce Vissell
#92. The problem with saying or feeling 'sorry' is that it often comes after the damage is already done.
( ... and a damage is a damage, small or big, it always leave an ugly mark on one's soul)
Asma Naqi
#93. The idea is that if you practice the Naikan part of Constructive Living, life becomes a series of small miracles, and you may start to notice everything that goes right in a typical life and not the few things that go wrong.
Will Schwalbe
#94. And so, this was the final major theme we found: that when a group of people, no matter how small or ordinary, was willing to die out to their selfish desires, the life which came out of that death was immeasurable, and continued to affect lives far into the future.
Peter Marshall
#95. Take advantage of each small success. In this way you close the gap between what you want from life and what it is giving you.
Deepak Chopra
#96. Small improvements in the way you use your time can translate into major differences in your life.
Brian Tracy
#97. We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.
William Osler
#98. I think, How small my life seemed then. How little I wanted for myself. How little I expected of myself and those who claimed to love me.
Liza Palmer
#99. Because it's true: more than the highlights, the bright events, it was in the small and the daily where she'd found life.
Lauren Groff
#100. I have a million small memories that will sustain me through life.
James Packer
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