Little things console us because little things afflict us.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
There are two things people want more than sex and money… recognition and praise.
You don’t do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.
My father taught me not to overthink things, that nothing will ever be perfect, so just keep moving and do your best.
My aesthetic is pretty classic. I like to keep things simple but appreciate the details.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Everything is a learning lesson, good and bad, so I am happy with the way things are, and I learned from everything negative. I am in a great space now, so I wouldn’t change a thing!
Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.
I’m a human being. I’ve got opinions, I’m not always right, I’m not always on time, I don’t always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.
A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won’t be too bad.
Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.
The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his ‘basic rights.’
The things that make us different, those are our superpowers.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life.
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
Surround yourself with people and things that inspire you. Learn everything you can.
To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
A good society is characterised not just by liberty but by mutual respect and responsibility. When this breaks down it takes a lot more than police officers to put things right.
Life is too short to be arguing over some little things.
The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
Good things do not come easy. The road is lined with pitfalls.
A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don’t know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox’s or bear’s, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
The best way to know God is to love many things.
To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.
You can’t jump from little things to big things. It just takes time and patience.
Focus is a matter of deciding what things you’re not going to do.
If you look at it ecologically, deforestation is high on the list of things which bring devastation. You cut down trees to build homes, for fuel, and you end up with no trees left, and you have to move on. If you take the earth as a whole, eventually there’s nowhere to move on to.
Success, to me, is just doing things that I’m really proud of.
I can’t imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.
The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
I am always looking forward to learn new things in my life.
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
Do all things with love.
Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
Just simple things – I like black and white, monochrome; I like suits.
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
Labour was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn’t hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.
I’ve been through a lot of things in my personal and family life. That turned me into a fighter. I always strive to be the best I possibly can.
There are positive things that come of social media as well as negative.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
I’m a tomboy at heart. I always like to say that I’m an ordinary girl doing extraordinary things.
I’m changing every day as far as this rap thing. I’m learning new things. I’m getting bigger by the day.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
Flowers are happy things.
The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.
‘The time has come,’ the walrus said, ‘to talk of many things: of shoes and ships – and sealing wax – of cabbages and kings.’
People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
At the end of the day, I’m fighting for the things I said I’d fight for.
There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.
There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.
I’d much rather hang out in a cafe. That’s where things are really happening.
