"The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair……" — Rebecca Solnit
"The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To dig deeper into the self, to go underground, is sometimes necessary, but so is the other route of getting out of yourself, into the larger world, into the openness in which you need not clutch your story and your troubles so tightly to your chest."
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127 Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
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The object we call a book is not the real book, but its seed or potential, like a music score.…
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I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge…
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Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.
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Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges…
— Woodrow Wilson
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It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles…
— E. M. Forster
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The 31th of May, I perceived in the same water more of those Animals, as also some that were somewhat…
— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.
— Eric Sevareid
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It is not the bigness of the words you utter, but the force with which you deliver them.
— Charles Spurgeon
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We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery…
— Jim Harrison
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God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements or the size…
— Billy Graham
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This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.
— Michael Heizer
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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Most companies aim to get bigger. But beyond a certain point, bigness becomes synonymous with badness. Think of Big Pharma,…
— Andrew Hill
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I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation. I believe that if…
— Vandana Shiva
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The truth is few people “think” big and even fewer “play” big. Why? Because “big” often means big responsibilitie s,…
— T. Harv Eker
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