Little Things quotes
114 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"If you can't do great things, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway."
"When there is a respect for small things, there will be an even greater respect towards the bigger things. When there is no respect for small things, then neither will there be for the bigger ones. This is how the Fathers maintained Tradition."
"The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you."
"Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better."
"Stop making a big deal out of the little things Cause I got big deals and I got little things"
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"While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things."
"You have to set your own boundaries. We all do. You have to self-check. At the same time, the transparency is liberating. It is so much easier than screening every little thing you do and say. There's got to be some fluidity to self-expression without constantly editing things. The older I get, the more confident I feel in that. The filters are just flung away... lets face it, filters interrupt the flow of sincerity. If you're embarrassed about something you've done, then just say it."
"I like to zoom out of the situation so I can see it all and don't get caught up in the little things down there."
"Little things console us because little things afflict us."
"It's not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be."
"Don't fuss about trifles. Don't permit little things-the mere termites of life-to ruin your happiness."
"There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands."
"Ah, on what little things does happiness depend."
"Every little thing counts in a crisis."
"We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to."
"How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?"
"There are no little things."
"For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together."
"Little things please little minds."
"Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now."
"It's the little things that count, hundreds of them."
"... our little things are all big to God's love; our big things are all small to His power."
"A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us."
"There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe."
"When they mention great little things in life, they usually forget flossing."
