Jane Hirshfield Quotes

The little things that happen. Sometimes they're insignificant; other times, they change everything.

I'm interested in the way major events don't necessarily announce themselves as major events. They're often little things - the drip, drip of life that changes people or affects people.

Not the spectacular things are the important things - the unspectacular things are the important things, especially in the future.

The small things are the big things.

Our lives are largely made up of a series of mundane moments, but those little moments are often the finesse that shapes our entire existence; it's not necessarily the big, dramatic events, although they do, too, of course.

The simple things can be really powerful.

My world is not spectacle and explosion. It's two people talking.

I'm an average girl with an average family - and I hope people can see that.

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.

You know, there's a thing about the woman across the room. You see the woman across the room, you think, She's so poised; she's so together. But she looks at you and you are the woman across the room for her.

Hey, we've all got problems, chum. I'm overly talkative. You look like a field of buttercups in a suit.

It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.

The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.

If you don't look at yourself and evaluate it, you instead see how the world's reacting to it.

It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary

Looks can be deceiving.

He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.

Some people in this world have stopped looking for beauty, then wonder why their lives are so ugly. Don't be like them. The ability to appreciate beauty is of God. Especially in one another. Look for beauty in everyone you meet, and you'll find it. Everyone carries divinity within them. And everyone we meet has something to impart.

I like seeing people that are into my music, it shows me that it doesn't matter, you can't judge a person based on how they look, and that's just how my music is.

...the more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel.

Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.

Most of the time, our deeper, stronger feelings are things we all have in common.

We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.