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Quotes About Smallness

un lucru m?runt se dovede?te a fi, prin acumulare progresiva, un instrument de tortura.
~ Serge Brussolo
O Signore, la tua notte è così grande e la nostra rete così piccola.
~ Shanna Compton
But when she turned her back to the lights, she saw that the night was so dark...She could not see the stars. The world felt as high as the depthless night sky and deeper than she could know. She understood, suddenly and keenly, that she was too small to run away, and she sat on the damp ground and cried.
~ Shannon Hale
The singer's voice is thin and fake, but it's pretty, and somewhere in the fakery is the true sadness of smallness and failure and believing in beautiful things that aren't real because that's the only way to get through.
~ Mary Gaitskill
May I be the tiniest nail in the house of the universe, tiny but useful. May I stay forever in the stream. May I look down upon the windflower and the bull thistle and the coreopsis with the greatest respect.
~ Mary Oliver
I tell you that ant is very alive! Look at how he fusses at being stepped on.
~ Mary Oliver
Never underestimate the big importance of small things
~ Matt Haig
No, what's troubling is the gap between the magnitude of our challenges and the smallness of our politics--the ease with which we are distracted by the petty and trivial, our chronic avoidance of tough decisions, our seeming inability to build a working concensus to tackle any big problem.
~ Barack Obama
Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
~ Bernard of Clairvaux
that we be founded on infinite smallness
~ Jorie Graham
Yo no pedí nacer. Nadie lo hizo. El tamaño y la complejidad del universo me hacen sentir muy pequeño y libre de responsabilidades. Me llevan a pensar que lo único que tiene sentido es intentar pasárselo bien.
~ Erlend Loe
Myths are useful in forming not the total personality, but only the superego. The child knows that he cannot possibly live up to the hero's virtue, or parallel his deeds; all he can be expected to do is emulate the hero to some small degree; so the child is not defeated by the discrepancy between his ideal and his own smallness.
~ bettelheim bruno ii
when confronted by small men doing big and stupid things, we need to resist with all the creativity and wit we can muster, and if we can do so without losing the civility that makes life enjoyable, then so much the better.
~ Bill McKibben
But that happiness, no doubt, was a lie invented for the despair of all desire. She now knew the smallness of the passions that art exaggerated.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Bir damla suya kar???p dönen bu çamur tanesinin üzerindeki biz diÄŸerleri, öylesine dermans?z, öylesine silahs?z, öylesine bilgisiz, öylesine küçüÄŸüz ki.
~ Guy de Maupassant
I was actually so small that my baby clothes were actually doll clothes from Toys 'R' Us because that's all that would fit me!
~ Lizzie Velasquez
I am so small I can hardly be seen. How can this great love be inside me? Look at your eyes. They are small, but they see enormous things.
~ Rumi
Stop looking for Big. The magic happens when you stay small. Ninety-five dollars bought more than the secret to grief. It paid for the secret to life. Whatever we don't have isn't the missing piece. The moments we live for their own sake turn to moments of joy. Something way more profound and lasting than happiness is peace.
~ Melody Beattie
It is good to have an intellectual awareness of our dependence upon God - to understand how great He is and how very small we are in His sight.
~ Mother Angelica
In that beauty, so vast and varied, I felt my own smallness in the wide, wild world. It let me forget myself and yet be wholly present. It let me stop trying to die. If
~ Joshilyn Jackson
It's part of the role mountains play in our lives. To make us feel small. Humbled.
~ Joy Jordan-Lake
My favourite thing about being in nature is that I feel so small and kind of insignificant.
~ Sigrid
I wish the whole world could see what I see. Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
~ Felix Baumgartner
Sipelgate jaoks on nende tegevus ülioluline, aga meie teame, et piisab vaid ühest jalahoobist, et nende väikeste ja pidevate pingutuste vili kaotsi läheks. Ja sipelgad ei mõista eales, miks nii läks.
~ Francesc Miralles