One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide — the superfluous, luxury in eating,… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs; Since life's best joys consist in… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Locke, whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favorer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced that whoever hopes to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Be brief, be pointed, let your matter standLucid in order, solid and at hand;Spend not your words on trifles but condense;Strike with… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Are we not rude and deserve blame, if we leave Him alone, to busy ourselves about trifles, which do not please Him… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
Many events seem to happen twice to me; even trifles, unimportant-seeming, recur, as if I were destined to live them again, time… — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In reviewing my life, in tracing its course, I fill my cell with the pleasure of being what for want of a… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Life is so great in its opportunities and possibilities, that you should rise confidently above the inevitable trifles incident to daily contact… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
That we should establish ourselves in a sense of GOD’s Presence, by continually conversing with Him. That it was a shameful thing… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“Trifles cannot satisfy our longings. Sensual pleasures, power over our fellow man, the acquisition of things, these are babbles, toys, trifles. Our… — Vaughn Heppner Copy Share Image
Men have always been the victims of trifles, but when they were uncomfortable and passionate, and in constant danger, they hardly had… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
We must understand that the fact of error, demonstrated in subsequent work, does not suggest that ethical lapses are responsible. It is… — Lewis M. Branscomb Copy Share Image
Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Do not think dishonestly... Distinguish between gain and loss in worldly matters. Develop intuitive judgement and understanding for everything. Perceive those things… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
There is not one grain in the universe, either too much or too little, nothing to be added, nothing to be spared;… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Dr. Johnson ... sometimes employed himself in chymistry, sometimes in watering and pruning a vine, and sometimes in small experiments, at which… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
A right rule for a club would be, Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic. It requires people who are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is one thing that makes life mighty in its veriest trifles, worthy in its smallest deeds, that delivers it from monotony,… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
A wise man should order his interests, and set them all in their proper places. This order is often troubled by greed,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If Christ has died for me - ungodly as I am, without strength as I am - then I can no longer… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
