Quotes About Small

But for the want of a nail, a kingdom was lost

You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds except the one to which you belong. Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you. — David Whyte, "Sweet Darkness," Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems , eds. Phyllis Cole-Dai & Ruby R. Wilson (Grayson Books, 2017)

It's a hard world for little things.

I am not the only parent in the history of the planet to have their asses handed to them by something they could fit in a purse.

Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.

agile teams need short backlogs of small items, a number of which are quite well-articulated and socialized, but only just prior to the iteration boundary in which they will be implemented.

A person shows signs of clutching on too fast, of being needy, of not hearing the word "no," of jealousy, of guarding you and your freedom. But the signs can be so small they skitter right past you. Sometimes they dance past, looking satiny, something you should applaud. Someone's jealousy can make you feel good. Special. But it's not even about you. It's about a hand that is already gripping. It's about their need, circling around your throat

Love." She looked at me with those blue eyes. "Isn't it astonishing how confused and complicated such a small,simple word is? It attracts so many other things, doesn't it, that stick to it like barnacles on rock...fear, guilt. Need. You can't even see the rock anymore. I imagine love in its purest form is a rare thing.

It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.

Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives

Maybe you have thought that doing... little kindnesses doesn't make much difference, but as Alma said, "By small and simple things are great things brought to pass."

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.

Petite taille mais corps solide, c'était un travailleur manuel de l'esprit, un prolo de la conscience thétique.

It was all a cottage is supposed to be, small and snug, with a front porch, pink climbing roses, and lots of trees for shade.

little steps, compounded, do make a difference.

She nodded, the small silver hoops in her earlobes bobbing forward. "I think it was the day before he was arrested." "Why was Chuck calling you?" She stared at me for a moment, then smiled the same smile I

But there is a limit to thinking about even a small piece of something monumental.

Siempre son cosas minúsculas las que determinan las catástrofes.

For him [Kafka], the most tormenting thing about his notion of marriage must have been its ruling out the possibility of one's ever becoming so small as to be able to vanish: one has to be there.

I was inspired by the marvelous example of Giacometti, the great sculptor. He always said that his dream was to do a bust so small that it could enter a matchbook, but so heavy that no one could lift it. That's what a good book should be.

the clock is ticking, and the world is spinning, and we simply do not have time anymore to think so small.

And you have treasures hidden within you—extraordinary treasures—and so do I, and so does everyone around us. And bringing those treasures to light takes work and faith and focus and courage and hours of devotion, and the clock is ticking, and the world is spinning, and we simply do not have time anymore to think so small.

His penmanship was shamefully crabbed. Each sentence was a crowded village of capital letters and small letters, living side by side in tight misery, crawling up on one another as though trying to escape the page.

White Acre was not, in fact, a very large place.