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Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher
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The willow which bends to the tempest,
often escapes better than the oak which resists it;
and so in great calamities,
it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits
recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner
than those of a loftier character.
- Albert Schweitzer
Today's acorns grow into the oak trees of thirty years hence.
But what acorns are we sowing today?
Imagine what an acorn-sized bit of prejudice or hatred would grow into.
Imagine what an acorn-sized bit of pollution can become.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm
Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh,
for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
Magic is natural to Wizards,
and only a little harder for the rest of us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
- Thomas Jefferson
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true
were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
- Orville Wright
We shall see but a little way if
we require to understand what we see.
- Henry David Thoreau
You should never be content with so little,
when you can reach out for something big.
- Charles L. Allen
(This quote is about making a big difference
in the world - not about greed)
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
Walking is good for solving problems -
it's like the feet are little psychiatrists.
- Pepper Giardino
The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)
Well excuse me - we've got something
a little unusual going on here -
time travel, parallel universes,
or just a little common ordinary insanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things.
- Robert Brault
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,
and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus
Grace isn't just a little prayer
you say before receiving a meal.
It's a way to live.
- Jackie Windspear
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Life is lived in the mists -
little is fully visible, less is certain.
Yet rejoice in the unknowing,
and let all of life be a wonderful adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill
He who can give thanks for little
will always find he has enough.
- Anonymous
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
All you need is love.
But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
- Charles M. Schulz
I have always held firmly to the thought
that each one of us can do a little
to bring some portion of misery to an end.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is of the small joys and little pleasures
that the greatest of our days are built.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If i had known... i would have lingered
over my coffee a little longer.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Alone we can do so little;
together we can do so much.
- Helen Keller
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
He who obtains has little.
He who scatters has much.
- Lao Tzu
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Twinkle, twinkle little bat
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a tea-tray in the sky.
- Lewis Carroll
A little more persistence,
a little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure
may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard
Two little words that can make the difference: START NOW.
- Mary C. Crowley
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
- Jimmy Johnson
I will dance a little.
I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
- Epictetus
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato
Let the refining and improving of your own life
keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy
between the genius and his human qualities
that one has to ask oneself whether
a little less talent might not have been better.
- Carl Jung
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
Man knows so much and does so little.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
And just dance a little.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God
who is sending a love letter to the world.
- Mother Teresa
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Little minds have little worries,
big minds have no time for worries.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow
I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.
Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower
or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets,
but I have found that when I silently commune with people
they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.
- George Washington Carver
Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
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