Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquility, of calm incuriousness, with nothing left of the barely bearable raw immediacy of childhood, all the things solved that had puzzled me when I was small, all mysteries settled, all questions answered, and the moments dripping away, unnoticed almost, drip by golden drip, toward the final, almost unnoticed, quietus. - John Banville And what did I think when I was small and why did I forget? And what else will I forget when I grow older? And if you forget is it as if it never happened? Will none of the things you saw or thought or dreamed matter? - Sharon Creech When I was small and easily wounded books were my carapace. If I were recalled to my hurts in the middle of a book they somehow mattered less. My corporeal life was slight the dazzling one in my head was what really mattered. Returning to books was coming home. - Lauren Groff A handful of experiences when I w...

For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes. - Shmuel Y Agnon In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always thinking it was very small and unimportant, and look where we have ended up today. - Paulo Coelho When we both experienced the love that consumes, we shared in the Absolute. The Absolute shows each of us who we really are; it is an enormous web of cause and effect, where every small gesture made by one person affects the life of someone else. This morning, that slice of the Absolute was still very much alive in my soul. I was seeing not only you but everything there is in the world, unlimited by space or time. - Paulo Coelho It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. - Neil Armstrong Because we would not wear a...

If you cannot do great things in life, make sure you do the small things in a great way. - Habeeb Akande This miracle is in the small things of daily life; we must live in the understanding that at every moment there is a way out of each problem, the way of finding that which is missing, the right clue to the decision which must be taken in order to change our entire future. - Paulo Coelho Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon. - Booker T Washington We never worry about the big things, just the small things. - Travis Barker What's really important here," I whispered loudly to myself,"is not the big things other people have thought up, but the small things you, yourself have - Haruki Murakami Live life fully in the present & enjoy the small things in life that give you joy, for the seemingly small & insignifican...

Don't sweat the small stuff. - Richard Carlson It's a long way back to Eden, Sweetheart, so don't sweat the small stuff. - Stephen King Don't sweat the small stuff, it's a long walk back to EDEN. Carolyn Roberts - Stephen King I live every day to its fullest extent and I don't sweat the small stuff. - Olivia Newtonjohn

This was a matter of some small group of guerrillas in some distant caves, a primitive, fanatical, and desperate people who didn't have the resources to intimidate the United States. - Isabel Allende His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum. - Kingsley Amis No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly in some small part of it. Where we live and who we live there with define the terms of our relationship to the world and to humanity. We thus come again to the paradox that one can become whole only by the responsible acceptance of one's partiality. - Wendell Berry Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music, some intimate, low-voiced, and delicate things in our mostly huge and roaring, glaring world? - Elizabeth Bishop Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the oth...

Small victories are bet-ter than none. - Neal Shusterman Roland glares at Connor and Connor glares back. Then he says what he always says at moments like this. "Nice socks." Although Roland doesn't look down right away, it derails him just enough for him to back off. He doesn't check to see if his socks match until he thinks Connor isn't looking. And the moment he does, Connor snickers. Small victories are bet-ter than none. - Neal Shusterman Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved; perhaps it is because our sense of what is the case is constructed from such inadequate materials that we defend it so fiercely, even to death. - Salman Rushdie

One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city -- as I once did for a couple of years. - Edward Abbey Small towns are like metronomes; with the slightest flick, the beat changes. - Mitch Albom As a kid, his favorite toy had been a snow globe, that held a small town of gingerbread buildings and peppermint streets. He'd wanted so badly to live there that one day he'd smashed the glass ball - only to find out that the houses were made of plaster, the candy stripes painted on. - Jodi Picoult And I couldn't make fun of her for that dream. It was my dream, too. And Indian boys weren't supposed to dream like that. And white girls from small towns weren't supposed to dream big, either. We were supposed to be happy with our limitations. But there was no way Penelope and I were going to sit still. Nope, we both wanted to fly: ...

If you cannot do great things in life, make sure you do the small things in a great way. - Habeeb Akande This miracle is in the small things of daily life; we must live in the understanding that at every moment there is a way out of each problem, the way of finding that which is missing, the right clue to the decision which must be taken in order to change our entire future. - Paulo Coelho Such Small Things: For a long time there were only your footprints & laughter in our dreams & even from such small things, we knew we could not wait to love you forever. - Brian Andreas Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon. - Booker T Washington Most of us forget to take time for wonder, praise and gratitude until it is almost too late. Gratitude is a many-colored quality, reaching in all directions. It goes out for small things and for la...