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Life is made up of little things …

• A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching. Swami Sivananda
• All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.  Mahatma Gandhi
• Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort. Humphry Davy
• Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things. Frank A. Clark
• Simple living,  Savour life’s simple joys,  Appreciation,  Gratitude,  Savouring,  Simplicity

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… and little moments

• Little drops of water, little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land. So the little minutes, humble though they be, Make the mighty ages of eternity. Julia A. Fletcher Carney

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Appreciate and enjoy the little things …

• The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything.  Eckhart Tolle
• One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats. Iris Murdoch
• I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on. Rita Dove
• Appreciate every little beautiful moment in every day of your life. Give it a try and you’ll see the world from another perspective. Thea Kristine May
• The art of contentment is the recognition that the most satisfying and the most dependably refreshing experiences of life lie not in great things but in little. Edgar A. Collard
• The Warrior tries to enjoy the small everyday things of life. Paulo Coelho
• The most significant gifts are the ones most easily overlooked. Small, everyday blessings: woods, health, music, laughter, memories, books, family, friends, second chances, warm fireplaces, and all the footprints scattered throughout our days. Sue Monk Kidd
• Don’t overlook life’s small joys while searching for the big ones. Jackson Brown Jr.
• As we become curators of our own contentment on the Simple Abundance path… we learn to savor the small with a grateful heart. Sarah Ban Breathnach
• Boredom is what you fight. Constant, ever-present boredom. So you learn to look forward to small things. Sunlight glimpsed through a cloud, an extra piece of pie or candy, good thread to sew your blouse, a ribbon to wear in your hair. Valerie W. Wesley
• I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things… I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. Leo F. Buscaglia
• If one could only learn to appreciate the little things … A song that takes you away, for there are those who cannot hear. The beauty of a sunset, for there are those who cannot see. The warmth and safety of your home, for there are those who are homeless. Time spent with good friends for there are those who are lonely. A walk along the beach for there are those who cannot walk. The little things are what life is all about. Search your soul and learn to appreciate. Shadi Souferian
• Appreciation,  Enjoyment

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… and find happiness in them …

• Instead of waiting for the big things to happen –marriage, kids, big promotion, winning the lottery – find happiness in the small things that happen every day. Little things like having a quiet cup of coffee in the early morning, or the delicious taste and smell of a homemade meal, or the pleasure of sharing something you enjoy with someone else, or holding hands with your partner. Noticing these small pleasures on a daily basis makes a big difference in the quality of your life.  Marc and Angel Chernoff
• Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard’s rustling, a breath, a breeze, a moment’s glance – it is little that makes the best happiness. Friedrich Nietzsche
• The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions — the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimal of pleasurable and genial feeling. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of fortune that happen but seldom. Benjamin Franklin
• You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you. Andy Warhol
• The little things that makes you smile are like the happy sprinkles you add on top of your life. Nouf Alfadl
• I think it’s important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy. Paula Cole
• Sometimes the most happy people in life are the ones with nothing. We can’t lose sight of the little things in life that should make us the happiest. Ryan Cabrera
• I try to find a reason to laugh each day. Somehow, if you can incorporate laughter into your day, every day, it really helps. It’s the little things in life that make me happy. Faith Hill
• Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don’t collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don’t really mean anything. Norman Lear
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… especially the small pleasures of life …

• Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe a thousand minutes enjoying it. If you were unhappy through those millions of minutes, what good is the thousand minutes of triumph? It doesn’t equate… Life is made of small pleasures. Good eye contact over the breakfast table with your wife. A moment of touching a friend. Happiness is made of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. If you don’t have all those zillions of tiny successes, the big ones don’t mean anything. Norman Lear
• In the dew of little things, the heart finds it’s morning and is refreshed. Kahlil Gibran
• The moment I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasure of life. I began to enjoy the little ones, like watching the stars dancing in moonlit sky or soaking in the sunbeams of a glorious summer morning. Robin S. Sharma
• Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• The moment I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasure of life, I began to enjoy the little ones, like watching the stars dancing in moonlit sky or soaking in the sunbeams of a glorious summer morning.   Robin S. Sharma
• It isn’t the big pleasures that count the most; it’s making a great deal out of the little ones. Jean Webster
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… for one day you’ll recognise the little things aren’t little

• Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. Robert Brault
• The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little. Jon Kabat-Zinn
• It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. Arthur Conan Doyle
• The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things… the trivial pleasure like cooking, one’s home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard. Barbara Pym
• Let me tell you something big: Give importance to little things! Mehmet Murat Ildan
• I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Wonder and joy are in the little things

• Invite the Sacred to participate in your joy in little things, as well as in your agony over the great ones. There are as many miracles to be seen through a microscope as through a telescope.  Start with little things seen through the magnifying glass of wonder, and just as a magnifying glass can focus the sunlight into a burning beam that can set a leaf aflame, so can your focused wonder set you ablaze with insight.  Find the light in each other and just fan it.  Alice O. Howell
• Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run… but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us. Victor Cherbuliez
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True gratitude lies in noticing the little things

• Gratitude should not be just a reaction to getting what you want, but an all- the-time gratitude, the kind where you notice the little things and where you constantly look for the good, even in unpleasant situations. Start bringing gratitude to your experiences, instead of waiting for a positive experience in order to feel grateful. Marelisa Fábrega
• I live in the space of thankfulness – and I have been rewarded a million times over for it. I started out giving thanks for small things, and the more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased. That’s because what you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it. Opportunities, relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life. Oprah Winfrey
• If you compensate for the brain’s bias by actively looking for good news—especially the little things you are glad about—then you will feel happier, more at peace with the world, more open to others, and more willing to stretch for your dreams. Rick Hanson
• Find gratitude in the little things and your well of gratitude will never run dry. Antonia Montoya
• As we become curators of our own contentment on the Simple Abundance path… we learn to savor the small with a grateful heart. Sarah Ban Breathnach

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Discover the sacred in the small things …

• Discover the extraordinary in the ordinary by bringing awareness to the moment. Bring consciousness into even the most simple actions. Eckhart Tolle
• Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal. Abraham Joshua Heschel
• The great lesson from the true mystics, from the Zen monks, and now also from the Humanistic and Transpersonal psychologists – that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one’s daily life, in one’s neighbors, friends, and family, in one’s back yard … To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is sacred.  Abraham Maslow
• The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything.  Eckhart Tolle

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… by being still and present

• To be aware of little, quiet things, you need to be quiet inside. A high degree of alertness is required. Be still. Look. Listen. Be present. Eckhart Tolle
• 90% of life is little things. Be present in them.  Eckhart Tolle
• The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.  Eckhart Tolle
• Stillness,  Presence

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Do small things in a great way and with great love

• If you can’t do great things, do small things in a great way. Napoleon Hill
• We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love. Mother Teresa
• If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Begin to do small things in a great way…You must put the whole power of your great soul into every act. Wallace D. Wattles
• In this life we cannot always do great things. But we can do small things with great love. Mother Teresa
• To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization. Harriet Beecher Stowe
• I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. Helen Keller
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Attention to little things can lead to excellence and even greatness

• Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come. Perry Paxton
• True greatness consists in being great in little things.  Charles Simmons
• The excellence is in the details. Gregory L. Sullivan
• Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. Booker T. Washington
• It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.   Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
• The way we do small things determines the way that we do everything. If we execute our minor tasks well, we will also excel at our large efforts. Mastery then becomes our way of being. Robin Sharma
• Attention,  Excellence

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Big things rely heavily on little things

• It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. John Wooden
• Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. Robert Brault
• If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. Colin Powell
• You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. Alvin Toffler
• We never worry about the big things, just the small things. Travis Barker
• I don’t take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small things big. Larry David
• If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things? Joyce Meyer
• Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too. Terry McAuliffe
• We forget the little things, so it’s no wonder some of us screw up the big things. Neil Cavuto

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Great consequences come from little things

• Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things. Bruce Barton
• Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things. Vernor Vinge
• A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark. Dante
• A small leak can sink a great ship. Benjamin Franklin
• What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution. Henri Frederic Amiel
• A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far- reaching. Sivananda
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… especially small decisions and choices

• When it comes down to it, it isn’t the major choices we make in life – career, marriage, etc. – that count the most. It is the everyday, minor decisions that make life work for us. Shad Helmstetter, Ph.D.
• Our power lies in our small daily choices, one after another, to create eternal ripples of a life well lived. Mollie Marti
• Sometimes the smallest choice, one that you might make within these 24 hours, can set into motion huge energies bringing you great good and enormous joy. Neale Donald Walsch
• Little changes and little choices add up to be revolutionary changes in your life. Sarah Ban Breathnach
• Choice,  Decision making

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Great things are done by a series of little things, brought together

• Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. Vincent van Gogh
• Great acts are made up of small deeds. Lao Tzu
• Confront the difficult while it is still easy; accomplish the great task by a series of small acts. Lao Tzu
• When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself. Isak Dinesen
• I think only about what I can do now. By thinking small, I accomplish great things.
• Have a bias toward action – let’s see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.    Indira Gandhi
• Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. Henry Ford
• It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. John Wooden
• All great things are only a number of small things that have carefully been collected together.
• Now ye may suppose that this is foolishness in me; but behold I say unto you, that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass; and small means in many instances doth confound the wise. Alma the Younger (Book of Mormon) Alma 37:6
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Small beginnings often lead to great things

• From small beginnings come great things. Proverb
• And if you start small, you don’t need a lot of motivation to get started either. The simple act of getting started and doing something will give you the momentum you need, and soon you’ll find yourself in a positive spiral of changes –one building on the other.  Marc and Angel Chernoff
• The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting with the first one. Mark Twain
• Don’t wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater. Mary Manin Morrissey
• All great things have small beginnings. Peter Senge
• Start wherever you are and start small.  Rita Baily
• Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. Demosthenes
• The most momentous leaps of growth commonly have as their springboard fairly modest first steps. Nathaniel Branden
• Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done. Persian Proverb
• Think big, start small

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Success comes from little things, done consistently

• In my experience, the greatest successes don’t come from grandiose scenarios of good intentions engendered by temporarily pumped-up motivation. Rather, the most lasting and significant positive effects result from small things, done consistently, in strategic places. David Allen
• Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. Robert Collier
• A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules. Anthony Trollope
• You achieve big visions by doing the little things every day and looking at them in a positive focus. Shawn Phillips

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Success comes from a series of little accomplishments

• The person determined to achieve maximum success learns the principle that progress is made one step at a time. A house is built one brick at a time. Football games are won a play at a time. A department store grows bigger one customer at a time. Every big accomplishment is a series of little accomplishments. David J. Schwartz
• You can’t do everything at once. But if you keep adding a little progress every day, over time you will have built a whole new set of habits and self- disciplines. Remember, anything valuable takes time. There are no overnight successes. Jack Canfield

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Success comes from attention to little things

• Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the everyday things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon. Booker T. Washington
• A man’s accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail. John Foster Dulles
• Details often kill initiative, but there have been few successful men who weren’t good at details. Don’t ignore details. Lick them. William Given Jr.
• Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration. Willie Sutton
• Attention,  Success

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Little steps add up to giant leaps forward

• I accomplished all of this in small steps, one thing at a time. I focused on only one goal at a time and put all of my energy into it. Leo Babauta
• When climbing a mountain, define each step in the right direction as success. We learn the alphabet before we write words; it works the same in sport and life. Many small successes add up. Dan Millman
• Small steps are good—they add up to big ones. Small steps are especially helpful to overachievers, who need to learn that life is less about getting somewhere, and more about being somewhere. Alan Cohen
• Small steps become gant strides. Tony Robbins
• Little by little, one travels far.  J R R Tolkien
• Small steps get you to big places. Marc and Angel Chernoff
• Little by little one walks far. Peruvian Proverb
• Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps. Helmut Schmidt
• It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward. Chinese Proverb
• There is no one giant step that does it. It’s a lot of little steps. Peter A. Cohen
• Small steps lead to giant strides

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… for little by little always does the trick …

• Inch by inch, it’s a cinch. Robert H. Schuller
• If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great. Hesiod
• Inches make champions. Vince Lombardi
• Little by little does the trick. Aesop
• Nothing can be done except little by little. Charles Baudelaire
• All good work is done the way ants do things, little by little. Lafcadio Hearn

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… except where a small step won’t do

• Don’t be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small steps. David Lloyd George
• Be braver. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.  Chinese proverb

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Little steps solve great problems

• No matter how big and tough a problem may be, get rid of confusion by taking one little step towards the solution. Do something. Georg Nordenholt
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Little improvements add up to revolutionary change

• Little changes and little choices add up to be revolutionary changes in your life. Sarah Ban Breathnach
• Small daily improvements always lead to exceptional results over time. Robin Sharma
• All changes, even positive ones, are scary. Attempts to reach goals through radical or revolutionary means often fail because they heighten fear. But the small steps of kaizen disarm the brain’s fear response, stimulating rational thought and creative play. Robert Maurer
• You have to apply yourself each day to become a little better. By applying yourself to the task of becoming a little better each and every day over a period of time, you will become a lot better. John Wooden
• When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur. When you improve conditioning a little each day, eventually you have a big improvement in conditioning. Not tomorrow, not the next day, but eventually a big gain is made. Don’t look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That’s the only way it happens – and when it happens, it lasts. John Wooden
• Kaizen and innovation are the two major strategies people use to create change. Where innovation demands shocking and radical reform, all kaizen asks is that you take small, comfortable steps toward improvement. Robert Maurer
• Every change starts in a small step. Ron Stolero
• Do the little things. In the future when you look back, they’d have made the greatest change. Nike Thaddeus
• Improvement,  Evolution

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Focus on just one little thing at a time …

• Get started today by looking three feet in front of you, not three miles. A long gaze at the mountain crest will overwhelm you, so stop looking at it. The key to achieving enormous tasks is to break them down into their smallest parts. MJ DeMarco
• Once you get into a rhythm, it’s hard to stop. You achieve big visions by doing the little things every day and looking at them in a positive focus. Shawn Phillips
• Small tasks are always better than large ones. Leo Babauta
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… while thinking about the big thing

• You’ve got to think about the big things while you’re doing the small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. Alvin Toffer
• To hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the ultimate purpose toward which I am working… Thomas Dekker
• One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Doing the little things when you don’t feel like it leads to character

• Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway. Mignon McLaughlin
• Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Doing a little can make a big difference to the world

• Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed. Jan de Hartog
• Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day. Sally Koch
• Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. Edmund Burke
• We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. Marian Wright Edelman
• One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history. Peace Pilgrim
• Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. Mohandas K. Gandhi
• It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little – do what you can. Sydney Smith
• We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. Mother Teresa
• Some of life’s biggest and most positive changes are propelled by mini conspiracies of a few well- meaning folks.   Bernard Lown
• Those people work more wisely who seek to achieve good in their own small corner of the world . . . than those who are forever thinking that life is in vain, unless one can do big things.  Herbert Butterfield
• We can do no great things, only small things with great love. Mother Teresa
• No one person has to do it all but if each one of us follow our heart and our own inclinations we will find the small things that we can do to create a sustainable future and a healthy environment. John Denver
• We can begin by doing small things at the local level, like planting community gardens or looking out for our neighbors. That is how change takes place in living systems, not from above but from within, from many local actions occurring simultaneously. Grace Lee Boggs
• It’s the little things citizens do. That’s what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees. Wangari Maathai
• If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. Betty Reese

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Small things done are better than great things planned

• Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. Peter Marshall
• It’s easier to take a small action now instead of a big action ’some day.’ Marc and Angel Chernoff
• Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now. Jonatan Mårtensson

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Take care of the little things and the big things take care of themselves

• Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things? Joyce Meyer
• If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things. Emily Dickinson
• Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves. Dale Carnegie

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In life, don’t sweat the little things

• My deepest belief is that to live as if we’re dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention and to forgive and not to sweat the small things. Anne Lamott
• Two rules for stress management: Rule one: Don’t sweat the small stuff.  Rule two: It’s all small stuff.  Robert Elliot
• To be free of destructive stress don’t sweat the small stuff and by realizing that all stuff is small.

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Don’t allow yourself to be upset by little things that don’t matter

• Let’s not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember “Life is too short to be little.” Dale Carnegie
• Life is too short to be little. Petty worry is allowing ourselves to get into a stew about little things and then greatly exaggerating their importance. Instead, devote life to worthwhile actions, postive feelings, great thoughts and enduring affections and projects. Dale Carnegie
• Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year’s time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings. André Maurois
• Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you. Joel Osteen
• Little things affect little minds. Benjamin Disraeli
• Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you. Jim Rohn
• Make it your habit not to be critical about small things. Edward Everett Hale
• If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small. Eckhart Tolle

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Don’t let little things distract you from the important things

• Most people fail in life because they major in minor things. Tony Robbins
• We can no more afford to spend major time on minor things than we can to spend minor time on major things.  Jim Rohn
• Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. Francis Chan
• Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind. Charlotte Mason
• Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter leastJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. Og Mandino
• It’s more important to do big things well than to do small things perfectly. Ray Dalio
• Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well- proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self- acquaintance. Plato
• The only reason you do not do great things is because you timidly cling to small things. Will you let loose of small things and bear the uncertainty of having nothing for a while?  Do this and eventually you will do great things.  Vernon Howard
• While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things. Saint Francis de Sales
• Our life is frittered away by detail… Simplify, simplify, simplify! … Simplicity of life and elevation of purpose. Henry David Thoreau

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Small opportunities can have the greatest impact

• Sometimes the little opportunities that fly at us each day can have the biggest impact. Danny Wallace
• Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. Demosthenes

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In relationships, the little things are the big things …

• Friendship is not a big thing. It’s a million little things.
• In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.  Khalil Gibran
• It’s dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other. M. Montgomery
• What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us. Marcel Proust
• Its the little things that matter, that add up in the end, with the priceless thrilling magic found only in a friend. Elizabeth Dunphy
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… and none more than little kindnesses

• Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things. Stephen Covey
• Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort. Humphry Davy
• Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practiced in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments. Mary Ann Kelty
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Trust God for the little things, not just the big

• Can anyone think of believing in God without trusting Him? Is it possible to trust in God for the big things like forgiveness and eternal life, and then refuse to trust Him for the little things like clothing and food?  Oswald Hoffmann
• There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things. Dwight L. Moody
• God tests and proves us by the common occurrences of life. It is the little things which reveal the chapters of the heart. Ellen G. White
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A person who cannot be trusted with little things cannot be trusted with big things

• Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I’ll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.  Lawrence D. Bell
• Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too. Terry McAuliffe
• Beware of the person who can’t be bothered by details. William Feather
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Never neglect the little things

• Never neglect the little things. Never skimp on that extra effort, that additional few minutes, that soft word of praise or thanks, that delivery of the very best that you can do. It does not matter what others think, it is of prime importance, however, what you think about you. You can never do your best, which should always be your trademark, if you are cutting corners and shirking responsibilities. You are special. Act it. Never neglect the little things. Og Mandino

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Practice till you can do little things perfectly

• Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater. Epictetus
• I’m a strong believer that you practice like you play, little things make big things happen. Tony Dorsett
• Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily. Johann Schiller
• Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better. Harry F. Banks
• It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing of the little things, the common duties, a little better and better. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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• The joy to be found in little things. (Eckhart Tolle)

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