Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie 
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When life is too easy for us, we must beware
or we may not be ready to meet the blows
which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind
... Don't Let It Poison Your Day.
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind
... the Antidote is Perspective.
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind
... Your Mind is Only Useful When Tamed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed,
and in such desperate enterprises?
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
The food at this place is really terrible ...
and such small portions.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin
How does so much gossip fit in such small minds?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
I Act with Bold Courage:
Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,
I boldly take every step -
large and small - with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,
I boldly take every step - large and small -
with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
The unknown is like the darkness of a cave -
it can be illuminated by the brief light
of one adventurer's small candle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whatever you want in life, start today.
Not tomorrow - today.
Let it be a small beginning - a tiny beginning.
Your happiness depends on starting today - every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone
who has just done you a small favor
wish that he might have done you a greater one.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient.
It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Small people never learn to be indifferent;
they either envy or pity.
- Anonymous
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves.
But deep down below the surface of the average conscience
a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
- Carl Jung
The Book of Life is a Book of Riddles,
with its Real Lessons Writ Small in the Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated;
you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- David Lloyd George
Life is full of beauty. Notice it.
Notice the bumble bee, the small child,
and the smiling faces.
Smell the rain, and feel the wind.
Live your life to the fullest potential,
and fight for your dreams.
- Ashley Smith
Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart,
it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A coincidence is a small miracle in which
God chooses to remain anonymous.
- Anonymous
There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
It is of the small joys and little pleasures
that the greatest of our days are built.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
The Answers of Spirit are far more powerful
than the Questions of our small minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
I am still amazed at how big, how enormous
a love and mystery God is -
and how small are the minds
that attempt to corral
this life force into rules and taboos,
cults and sects.
- Bono
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
A small body of determined spirits
fired by an unquenchable faith
in their mission
can alter the course of history.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Celebrate Rainbows and Butterflies -
the Small Miracles of Our Life
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a Book of Riddles,
with the Real Lessons Writ Small in its Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Lessons of the Book of Life are
Writ Small in its Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing big ever came from being small.
- William J. Clinton
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters
cannot be trusted with important matters.
- Albert Einstein
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
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
Believe in yourself,
in your vision for your future
and in your ability to take a small step
each day toward achieving your vision.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.
Do not overdo it.
- Lao Tzu
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Faithfulness in the performance of small duties
gives us strength to adhere to difficult determinations
that life will someday force us to make.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters
cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- Albert Einstein
A small compassionate act enlarges the scope of community.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
True courage is taking another small step each day
toward achieving your vision.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Miracles are a retelling in small letters
of the very same story
which is written across the whole world
in letters too large for some of us to see.
- C. S. Lewis
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
In matters of truth and justice,
there is no difference between large and small problems,
for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
- Albert Einstein
Success is the sum of small efforts,
repeated day in and day out.
- Robert Collier
Nurturing is not complex.
It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you
and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish -
too much handling will spoil it.
- Lao Tzu
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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