Appreciation of Small Things Quotes

Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.

Little things please little minds.

Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.

A prisoner lived in solitary confinement for years. He saw and spoke to no one and his meals were served through an opening in the wall. One day an ant came into his cell. The man contemplated it in fascination as it crawled around the room. He held it in the palm of his hand the better to observe it, gave it a grain or two, and kept it under his tin cup at night. One day it suddenly struck him that it had taken him ten long years of solitary confinement to open his eyes to the loveliness of an ant.

The awesome part about The Book of Awesome is the realization that if you enjoy the simple moments in your life, you will be happier.

I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.

It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.

You get time to appreciate things. Perspective, you start looking at things differently.

To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.

The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.

You have to beat out for yourself many mornings on the windy headlands the sense of the fact that you get the same rainbow in the cloud drift over Waban and the spray of your garden hose. And not necessarily then do you live up to it.

I get the same lurching thrill now when I'm about to sit down to an egg mayonnaise sandwich and a packet of plain crisps as I used to get when I fancied someone.

I learned have, not to despise,What ever thing seemes small in common eyes.

Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.

And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.

Small things are best: Grief and unrest To rank and wealth are given; But little things On little wings Bear little souls to Heaven.

you've always been living on prospects; for my part, I'd rather have a mole-hill in possession than a mountain in prospect.

Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.

The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.