“Laughing at your pettiness probably works better than scolding yourself for it.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs. — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness. — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
When we play the part of a great man too much, we seem very small. — Philippe Nericault Destouches Copy Share Image
“Your tears are never invisible---there is always an insecure woman that lights up when you point them out.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“In the presence of greatness, pettiness disappears. In the absence of a great dream, pettiness prevails.” — Peter M. Senge Copy Share Image
“He looked tired, irritated, and slightly defeated. It was beautiful.” — Belinda Kelderhouse Copy Share Image
“She [did feel] made aware of the pettiness of some part of her, and of human relations how flawed they are, how… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord. — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Pettiness of mind, ignorance and presumption are the cause of stubbornness, because stubborn people only want to believe what they themselves can… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
“Actually it is annoying to see a grown up exhibiting pettiness in a way that shows they are proud of it. Worse… — DON SANTO Copy Share Image
Is all anger sin? No, but some of it is. Even God Himself has righteous anger against sin, injustice, rebellion and pettiness. — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
One of the gifts our planet gave us is to love completely. Without jealousy or insecurity or fear. Without pettiness. Without anger. — Pittacus Lore Copy Share Image
Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness. — George Iles Copy Share Image
“He was going to hurt the people he hated, but inside he didn't feel any real sense of satisfaction. He hated them… — Riccardo Bruni Copy Share Image
To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
I think I was a little disappointed in her. I expected then people to be more of a piece than I do… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Like families, competitors can bring out the worst as well as the best in each other. Like romance, competition has many faces,… — Mariah Nelson Copy Share Image
One of the qualities essential to writing exciting stories, whether for page or screen, is an ability to abandon one's morality. We… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
We believe - we believe that, if we tell the people the truth, that they will act bigger than the pettiness we… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“Pettiness often leads both to error and to the digging of a trap for oneself. Wondering (which I am sure he didn't)… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“This terrible smallness of men was bigger than him, bigger than anything.” — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
The true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one's failure or pettiness or wrongness… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The Tao has no place for pettiness, and nor has Virtue. Pettiness is dangerous to Virtue; pettiness is dangerous to the Tao.… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Once you have been confronted with a life-and-death situation, trivia no longer matters. Your perspective grows and you live at a deeper… — Happy Rockefeller Copy Share Image
You must realize that if you are going to reach the heights you have been called to reach, you may elicit some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You are chosen to be faithful women of God in our day, to stand above pettiness, gossip, selfishness, lewdness, and all other… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
“How quickly pettiness returns, and that most ignoble form of real estate, the possessive occupation and tyranny over two square inches of… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“You can't discuss the ocean with a well frog - he's limited by the space he lives in. You can't discuss ice… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little,… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
“I felt offended. So offended that I planned to ignore for the next few weeks the "friends" who'd sent me those pictures.… — Gabourey Sidibe Copy Share Image
“On the whole I consider the constant need for delight and diversion in completely new things to be a sign of pettiness,… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
“Every day, God grants us the precious gift of life. Yet every day, we squander it with our selfish, petty concerns, rather… — Kirn Hans Copy Share Image
“Isn't that petty?" "Anna, you have not yet seen pettiness. When a couple of tough guys like the general and Lugala Tsu… — Eleanor Arnason Copy Share Image
Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness: forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude... the absence of profound thankfulness. — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
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