Let my soul smile through my heart
and my heart smile through my eyes,
that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
He who obtains has little.
He who scatters has much.
- Lao Tzu
In order to be happy with a man,
you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot
and not try to understand her at all.
- Helen Rowland
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe,
then I'd have to say that the universe
aimed rather low and settled for very little.
- George Carlin
Magic is natural to Wizards,
and only a little harder for the rest of us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain
All you need is love.
But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
- Charles M. Schulz
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother
why the bride changed her mind.
What do you mean? responded her mother.
Well, she went down the aisle with one man,
and came back with another.
- Anonymous
If you can't annoy somebody with what you write,
I think there's little point in writing.
- Kingsley Amis
There is only one thing about which I am certain,
and that is that there is very little
about which one can be certain.
- W. Somerset Maugham
The seaweed is always greener in somebody else's lake.
- the movie The Little Mermaid (1989)
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
Well excuse me - we've got something
a little unusual going on here -
time travel, parallel universes,
or just a little common ordinary insanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Twinkle, twinkle little bat
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a tea-tray in the sky.
- Lewis Carroll
The church is always trying to get other people to reform;
it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little,
by way of example.
- Mark Twain
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do;
the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
- Mary Wilson Little
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge:
it is those who know little, and not those who know much,
who so positively assert that this or that problem
will never be solved by science.
- Charles Darwin
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up
in our politics and say definite things which mean something,
or whether we shall always go on using generalities
to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
Man knows so much and does so little.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things.
- Robert Brault
Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow
Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy
between the genius and his human qualities
that one has to ask oneself whether
a little less talent might not have been better.
- Carl Jung
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
Campaign behavior for wives:
Always be on time.
Do as little talking as humanly possible.
Lean back in the parade car
so everybody can see the president.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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)
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
He who can give thanks for little
will always find he has enough.
- Anonymous
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
'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
Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm
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
Little minds have little worries,
big minds have no time for worries.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure.
I make mistakes, I am out of control
and at times hard to handle.
But if you can't handle me at my worst,
then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
- Marilyn Monroe
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.
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
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
- Jimmy Johnson
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
A little more persistence,
a little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure
may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God
who is sending a love letter to the world.
- Mother Teresa
Walking is good for solving problems -
it's like the feet are little psychiatrists.
- Pepper Giardino
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
And just dance a little.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
THE fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
- Carl Sandburg
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
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
Pity may represent little more
than the impersonal concern
which prompts the mailing of a check,
but true sympathy is the personal concern
which demands the giving of one's soul.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
I will dance a little.
I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill
We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
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
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,
and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
- Epictetus
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things;
knows not the livid loneliness of fear.
- Amelia Earhart
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
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