I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds.
The best time is during the struggle. The top of the mountain is usually small, freezing and lonesome. To this day I'm continually reinvesting myself in something new. I'm not afraid to start as a beginner in anything.
Except for a few small presses, most publishers are north of Ground Zero.
Leave greatness to others. Become so small that no one can see you. This conviction results from growing devotion to the supreme reality.
On New Year's Day every calendar, large and small, has the same number of dates. But we soon learn that the years are of very different lengths.
She was unaware that she was somewhat of a celebrity up in heaven. I had told people about her, what she did, how she observed moments of silence up and down the city and wrote small individual prayers in her journal, and the story had travelled so quickly that women lined up to know she had found where they’d been killed. She had fans in heaven. . . . . Meanwhile, for us, she was doing important work, work that most people on Earth were too frightened even too contemplate.
For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.
Sit in front of an object of concentration with the eyes open. Focus on a candle flame, or a yantra, a little dot, something small. Just look at it. Focus on it until there is nothing else in your mind. This develops willpower.
Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift.
What happened on September 11th is at least, theoretically, small stuff compared to what can happen.
Small minds select narrow roads; expand your mental vision and take to the broad road of helpfulness, compassion and service.
There is no small act of kindness.
Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers. . . that is a small population.
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
If we take a small step in extolling peacemakers as much as honoring war heroes, we will be making a giant leap towards peace.
In a world where everyone is behaving honestly, any dishonesty constitutes a big infraction. But, in a world where many people are behaving dishonestly, and the news is filled with stories of their infractions, even big infractions can feel small to the perpetrator.
My business partner gave me a drone, a small helicopter you pilot with an iPhone, and also it has a camera so you can see what it sees on the iPhone. Great fun. I fly it outside in Portugal. It's wonderful to oversee gardens.
Lost motivation means that you broke promises to yourself and haven't corrected them yet. You need to believe in yourself again. This can only happen when you start fulfilling the small promises you make to yourself.
I am interested in getting people to use the healthcare system at the right time, getting them to see the doctor early enough, before a small health problem turns serious.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.