“Sometimes, small minds seem to take the day. Election fraud. A migratory plague. Less and less surprises us as odd.” — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
A moment of something between acceptance and resignation of one's smallness in the world. — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Smallness is not the level for the loser, because even the great was once small.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness. — John Updike Copy Share Image
You will have to make up for the smallness of your size by your courage and selfless devotion to duty, for it… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
I might try that one thing, you know, that thing people do when their eyes get all wet and stupid—what’s it called?… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
As I'm never going to be old, I'm glad that I never lost my sense of wonder about the world, although I… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
City and country -- each has its own beauty and its own pain. Some of the smallness of small towns -- cattiness,… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
I have often thought how strange it is that men can at once and the same moment cheerfully consign our sex to… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
“Being here, living now, recognizing our smallness, is a spiritual practice. It allows us to be at peace with our humanity. It… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Those who remain content easily remain small: small are their joys, small are their ecstasies, small are their silences, small is their… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“As the biologist J. B. S. Haldane metaphorically described the advantages of smallness: “You can drop a mouse down a thousandyard mineshaft;… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
So many things in the world have happened before. But it's like they never did. Every new thing that happens to a… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“There’s strength in observing one’s miniaturization. That you are insignificant and prone to, and God knows, dumb about a lot. Because doesn’t… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life was… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
I am not a 'democrat' only because 'humility' and equality are spiritual principles corrupted by the attempt to mechanize and formalize them,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the stage is set for the appearance of new faiths, centred on the UFO belief. To a greater degree than… — Jacques Vallee Copy Share Image
New Yorkers love the bigness -- the skyscrapers, the freedom, the lights. But they also love it when they can carve out… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Immediately upon the fall, the mind of man shrank from its primitive greatness and expandedness, to an exceeding smallness and contractedness... Before,… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“if somthing accurs outside wht we call the natural order,its very smallness may be more immediately unnerving than,for istance,the eclipse of the… — Lucy M. Boston Copy Share Image
I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Every adult, whether he is a follower or a leader, a member of a mass or of an elite, was once a… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
“Let us then realize our limitations. We are something and we are not everything. Such being as we have conceals from us… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
No matter what people are struggling with, or based on whatever. Sexuality, ethnicity, economic status, size. I don't wish smallness for anyone.… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
The reason "other churches" don't grow: "Jim, the truth is, I couldn't have a real prayer meeting in my church. I'd be… — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
“In the woods I find not escape, but entrance, into the holy order of things. My smallness is not my shame, but… — Dark Night Beacon Copy Share Image
If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
If we love-and-serve an ideal we reach backward in time to its inception and forward to its consummation. To grow is sometimes… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
“Smallness can make you feel extra porous. Extra ambitious. Like a small dog carrying an enormous branch clenched in its teeth, as… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
So much of life is in the smallness of moments...but they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
Many of us, restless and unfulfilled, see no supreme worth in our lives. We want more out of life. And war, at… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The purpose of life is to be beautiful, to be bountiful, to be blissful, to be graceful and grateful. What a wonderful… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I thought my mountain was coming this morning. It was near to speaking when suddenly it shifted, sulked, and returned to smallness.… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
Work to connect yourself to the allness of life -- instead of identifying with the smallness of it -- and you'll awaken… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
The Little Man does not know that he is little, and he is afraid of knowing it. He covers up his smallness… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Hate nobody; love everybody. It won't cost you anything. Love never costs anything. Love is the most selfish act. It gives you… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
It’s a gift to joyfully recognize and accept our own smallness and ordinariness. Then you are free with nothing to live up… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
