Top 100 Quotes About The Small Things
#2. And once again, only the Small Things were said. The Big Things lurked unsaid inside.
Arundhati Roy
#3. Do the small things of life with a relaxed awareness. When you are eating, eat totally - chew totally, taste totally, smell totally. Touch your bread, feel the texture. Smell the bread, smell the flavor. Chew it, let it dissolve into your being.
Rajneesh
#4. I brushed my hands on the pockets of my jeans, still marvelling at the fact I wasn't wearing a gown. And that I had real underwear on. It was the small things
Allison Pang
#6. Notice the small things. The rewards are inversely proportional.
Liz Vassey
#7. 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
#8. Success is in the big things.
Happiness is in the small things.
Meditation is in Nothing.
And, God is in everything
T.T. Rangarajan
#9. Small daily happenings make life spectacular ... start enjoying the small things in life!
Andy Rooney
#10. If you take care of the small things with ease, then there are no big things to take care of. This is how we reduce our drama.
Art Hochberg
#11. My deepest belief is that to live as if we're dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention and to forgive and not to sweat the small things.
Anne Lamott
#12. I no longer have time for unnecessary drama. I wasted so much time scared, self-conscious and insecure. Life is too short to stress the small things anymore.
Daryl Hannah
#13. You have to be grateful for the small things, when any minute might be your last.
Joe Abercrombie
#14. I guess we're all guilty at some point of failing to appreciate the small things, because when we use a broad brush to paint our exemplary lives, we splatter ourselves with ignorance.
Danielle Esplin
#15. To die for a cause is easy, to live, to be steady day after day doing the small things, taking care of the details, knowing you will be forgotten by history and still choosing to do so, that is real courage
Anonymous
#16. I think it's the small things, the smaller episodes and details that I linger on and try to draw meaning from, just personally.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#17. 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
#18. No one person has to do it all but if each one of us follow our heart and our own inclinations we will find the small things that we can do to create a sustainable future and a healthy environment.
John Denver
#19. I find that the more willing I am to be grateful for the small things in life, the bigger stuff just seems to show up from unexpected sources, and I am constantly looking forward to each day with all the surprises that keep coming my way!
Louise Hay
#20. If you cannot do great things in life, make sure you do the small things in a great way.
Habeeb Akande
#21. If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#22. The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things ... the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.
Barbara Pym
#23. It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.
Alexander McCall Smith
#24. Before, it came easy for me. I don't have two speeds anymore. I need to focus on the small things that I once took for granted.
Michael Phelps
#25. 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
#26. In the small things is the genetic imprint of the larger things... You must reverse the small things as well as the larger things. You must learn to see not just with your eyes but with your heart and intelligence.
Witi Ihimaera
#27. Don't forget the small things, above all, don't forget the small things - the smaller the trace, the more important it sometimes is.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#28. Having children obviously changes your priorities, but when you start to see life through these innocent eyes and seeing everything for the first time, you appreciate the small things.
Nick Cannon
#29. 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
#30. We never worry about the big things, just the small things.
Travis Barker
#32. Stay faithful in things large and taking on the world, but stay faithful in those things small - because remember it's the small things, the size of a mustard seed, that ultimately moves mountains.
Cory Booker
#33. It is in the small things we see it.
The child's first step,
as awesome as an earthquake.
The first time you rode a bike,
wallowing up the sidewalk.
Anne Sexton
#34. The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.
Eckhart Tolle
#36. Normally, I just sit in my quiet little room and do the small things that bring me pleasures. I read my books, I answer email, I write a little bit.
Aaron Swartz
#37. In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.
Arne Jacobsen
#38. The way you do the small things, is the way you do the big things
Steven Aitchison
#39. A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#40. Only the Small Things are ever said. The Big Things lurk unsaid inside.
Arundhati Roy
#41. It's getting too late in my life to care about the small things. It's getting too late to not be brave, to not live my life fully, to not try to be an artist. Trivial things like how nice your hotel room is, or if you have to be naked for a while, they fade away.
Helen Hunt
#42. Most times and in most circumstances, what hinders real progress is never anything big, but the small things we least regard that impede real thinking and action for progress!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#43. You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a world where myriads of men and women are ground by wrong and misery, and tainted with pollution.
George Eliot
#44. Instinctively it is the small things that make the biggest of differences.Men of a certain type are about showing off and the grand gestures.The gesture tends to overwhelm the meaning behind it.
K.J. Kilton
#45. Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.
Bell Hooks
#46. This miracle is in the small things of daily life; we must live in the understanding that at every moment there is a way out of each problem, the way of finding that which is missing, the right clue to the decision which must be taken in order to change our entire future.
Paulo Coelho
#47. There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.
Mother Teresa
#48. 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
#49. Sometimes one had to be grateful for the small things.
Brenda Novak
#50. 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
#51. So the small things came into their own: small acts of helping others, if one could; small ways of making one's own life better: acts of love, acts of tea, acts of laughter. Clever people might laugh at such simplicity, but, she asked herself, what was their own solution?
Alexander McCall Smith
#52. After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one's person.
Nelson Mandela
#53. Only the small things in life are important
Joseph Roth
#54. God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us informed about the small things no less than the large is the mainspring, the dynamo, the jet propulsion of all complete living.
John Mason Brown
#55. Faithfulness in the small things will lead to blessing in the big things.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#56. God will always do great things with people who are willing to be faithful in the small things.
Lysa TerKeurst
#57. Looking at the big things that had shaped the nation. Battlefields, factories, declarations, revolutions. Looking for the small things. Birthplaces, clubs, roads, legends. The big things and the small things which were supposed to represent home. I'd found some of them. I
Lee Child
#58. We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.
Theodore Roosevelt
#59. I find that very appealing: the blurring of the lines between what's funny and what's tragic. And what's ordinary and what's not - the big things in the small things.
Rachel Joyce
#60. Life isn't only about the big moments whether they be good or bad. Maybe it's about the small things that stretch out to strengthen the most tenuous bound.
Sarah Dessen
#61. And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside.
Arundhati Roy
#62. If you feel stuck in your life, like it's passing you by, like there's something way better for you somewhere out there and you're missing it, try this - try throwing yourself into the small things and repeating to yourself: This is where I start.
Rob Bell
#63. SMALL THINGS
& GREAT
He that lets
the small things bind him
leaves the great
undone behind him.
Piet Hein
#64. The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.
Jennifer Niven
#65. One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.
Janet Suzman
#66. There was comfort in that. The knowledge that wherever you were in the universe, the small things were always exactly the same. Attracting and Repelling. It was only by not looking closely enough that you saw difference.
Matt Haig
#67. So many people overlook the small things. The way someone's laugh makes you smile. The way their eyes can captivate you. How the way they speak can enlighten you, encourage you, inspire you. A touch of their hand to yours. A quick kiss on the cheek. An 'I love you.
Jennifer Reinfried
#68. 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
#69. A car with a small hole in its fuel tank unattended to shall see its fuel draining little by little and it shall only be left in the middle of a long journey! So is life! Mind the small things!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#70. What's it like to face your own mortality? "It makes you think," I reply. "The big things, the small things. The dreams, the regrets.
Leylah Attar
#71. You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
Alvin Toffler
#72. One may suffer the long-term in order to grow in appreciation for the small things. For in short-term suffering, one only notices the large.
Criss Jami
#73. I dream of big things. I work for the small things. If you're going to dream, you might as well dream big. A lot of that came from my mother. She was adamant about the work ethic
about how you can't just dream things.
Kevin Costner
#75. Find your rituals, develop your routines, create those practices that ground and center you. Stick to them, don't apologize for them, treat them, even the small things, like they're big things.
Rob Bell
#76. Greatness is achieved, not only
by doing great things, but also,
by making the small things we do
great.
S. Tarr
#77. My hindsight seemed unbearably clear tonight. I could see every mistake I'd made, every bit of harm I'd done, the small things and the big things.
Stephenie Meyer
#78. It is so often the small things overlooked which leave our schemes in ruins.
Joe Abercrombie
#79. I think that this might be the easiest way to live - just concentrate On the small things, and never let your mind wander on big things,
David Levithan
#80. If you're not content with the small things, then you won't be content with the big things.
Anthony Liccione
#81. The path to survival was to never give up on the small things.
Richard Flanagan
#82. Before I move closer towards my vision of the Buddha, I would respectfully plead that you adopt a stance of compassion towards the small things of this world." He
Scott Hawkins
#83. Sometime we forget to value the small things, that inspire us more than the large! We should learn from daily than planning stupid future.
Vikram Roy
#84. It is the small things in life which count; it is the inconsequential leak which empties the biggest reservoir.
Charles Comiskey
#85. You had to appreciate the small things in life when the big things made you want to curl up in the corner in the fetal position and give up.
Mia Sheridan
#86. Live life fully in the present & enjoy the small things in life that give you joy, for the seemingly small & insignificant moments add up to a greater whole.
Orchid Ch'ng
#87. Maybe marriage, like life, isn't only about the big moments, whether they be good or bad. Maybe it's all the small things - like being guided slowly forward, surely, day after day - that stretches out to strengthen even the most tenuous bond.
Sarah Dessen
#88. A key point to bear in mind: The value of attentiveness varies in proportion to its object. You're better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve.
Marcus Aurelius
#89. If you don't have time for the small things, you won't have time for the big things
Richard Branson
#90. The small things you do everyday- smiling at a stranger or paying someone a compliment -bring you closer to your spiritual truth , the purity of your soul
Deepak Chopra
#91. Every person has a right to the small things, you see? The little happinesses. After all, those are the ones that make life most worth living. It's what we're fighting for.
Kim Harrison
#92. When you have had nothing most of your life, you learn to appreciate the small things in life. The real challenge is appreciating the small things in life as you start to acquire material things and amassing wealth.
Jim Robinson
James Morris Robinson
#93. Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.
Voltaire
#94. Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you've started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can't get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?
Joyce Meyer
#95. I don't take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small things big.
Larry David
#96. The small things in life are sometimes the most precious gifts we are given, and when you recognize them when they arrive, then you are truly blessed.
Raine Miller
#97. The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you're above everybody else.
Kevin Hart
#98. I don't always make the best decisions, I don't always take the best advice, I don't always let the "small things" roll off, but I always try.
Emma Paul
#99. Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
Booker T. Washington
#100. 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
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