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A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Related topics: Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology Simplicity
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being
that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts;
wisdom lies in their simplification.
- Martin Fischer
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh,
for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
It is of the small joys and little pleasures
that the greatest of our days are built.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A little more persistence,
a little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure
may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard
He who can give thanks for little
will always find he has enough.
- Anonymous
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine
If i had known... i would have lingered
over my coffee a little longer.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
We shall see but a little way if
we require to understand what we see.
- Henry David Thoreau
I will dance a little.
I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
He who obtains has little.
He who scatters has much.
- Lao Tzu
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
- Jimmy Johnson
Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Rainbows and butterflies are themselves beautiful and highly symbolic,
but they are also representative of
all the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God
who is sending a love letter to the world.
- Mother Teresa
Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Two little words that can make the difference: START NOW.
- Mary C. Crowley
We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson
A leader is best when people barely know he exists,
not so good when people obey and acclaim him,
worst when they despise him.
But of a good leader, who talks little,
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, "We did this ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
- Thomas Jefferson
You should never be content with so little,
when you can reach out for something big.
- Charles L. Allen
(This quote is about making a big difference
in the world - not about greed)
Be avid.
Create apart from perfection.
Risk failure.
Cover your words with sweat.
Run a little
Touch excruciatingly.
Laugh until you cry.
Dance with your eyes closed.
Care.
Understand you die a little in every moment.
Be Enlivened
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true
were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
- Orville Wright
Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
And just dance a little.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
Life is lived in the mists -
little is fully visible, less is certain.
Yet rejoice in the unknowing,
and let all of life be a wonderful adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My definition of success is to live your life in a way
that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -
and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel
a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
- Tony Robbins
Let the refining and improving of your own life
keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato
Alone we can do so little;
together we can do so much.
- Helen Keller
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things.
- Robert Brault
I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,
and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Little do men perceive what solitude is,
and how far it extendeth.
For a crowd is not company,
and faces are but a gallery of pictures,
and talk but a tinkling cymbal,
where there is no love.
- Francis Bacon
I have always held firmly to the thought
that each one of us can do a little
to bring some portion of misery to an end.
- Albert Schweitzer
Many people know so little about what
is beyond their short range of experience.
They look within themselves - and find nothing!
Therefore they conclude that there
is nothing outside themselves either.
- Helen Keller
Little minds have little worries,
big minds have no time for worries.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When was the last time you took
a different route to work ... just because?
Consider shaking up your life a little (or a lot) ...
for no reason, except to do it.
Let your life be an adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow
It's the little things you do
that can make a big difference.
What are you attempting to accomplish?
What little thing can you do today
that will make you more effective?
You are probably only one step away from greatness.
- Bob Proctor
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
- Epictetus
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
I will dance a little.
I will move with the wind.
I will give my body to my love and celebrate
that we have substance beyond the idea of ourselves.
We can move. We can touch. This is my physical exclamation point.
This is how I can awaken my mind to the possibilities in the day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.
Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower
or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets,
but I have found that when I silently commune with people
they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.
- George Washington Carver
Grace isn't just a little prayer
you say before receiving a meal.
It's a way to live.
- Jackie Windspear
All you need is love.
But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
- Charles M. Schulz
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil;
but it needs a little much of letters and phone calls
and small, silly presents every so often -
just to save it from drying out completely.
- Pam Brown
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