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He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little.
What lies behind us and lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
The world globes itself in a drop of dew. The microscope cannot find the animal-cule which is less perfect for being little. Eyes, ears, taste, smell, motion, resistance, appetite, and organs of reproduction that take hold on eternity – all find room to consist in the small creature. So do we put our life into every act. The true doctrine of omnipresence is that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.
Appetite | Doctrine | Eternity | God | Life | Life | Little | Omnipresence | Taste | World | God |
Robert Kennedy, fully Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. n.
Belief | Change | Courage | Daring | Energy | Events | Greatness | History | Man | Oppression | Time | Will | Work |
Laws are like spiders' webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but are things break through and escape.
Sathya Sai Baba, fully Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weight him down.
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Upanishads or The Upanishads NULL
When [in the world] one sees nothing else, hears nothing else, recognizes nothing else: that is [participation in] the Infinite. But when one sees, hears, and recognizes only otherness: that is smallness. The Infinite is the immortal. That which is small is mortal.
He who is in a position to intercede on behalf of his fellow, but does not, is considered a sinner.
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He that avoideth not small faults, by little and little falleth into greater.
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Reality has three natures: imagination, interdependence, and the nature of ultimate perfection One considers interdependence. Because of forgetfulness and prejudices, we generally cloak reality with a veil of false views and opinions. This is seeing reality through imagination. Imagination is an illusion of reality which conceives of reality as an assembly of small pieces of separate entities and selves.
Forgetfulness | Illusion | Imagination | Nature | Perfection | Reality |
A good deed done without love is nothing, but if anything is done from love, however small and inconsiderable it may be, every bit of it is counted. God considers what lies behind the deed, and not what is actually done.
Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.